If you have a non-invasive portable ventilator,can you take a shower?

take a shower!!!!! Keep the ventilator out though. Put a plastic bag over it, and keep the tubing/intake clean and free. Have your care-giver take a look at thing's before and after. PEACE

Wash on just cover your tubing with plastic covering and when you get out make sure nothing got wet that wasn't supposed . It also depends on the trach tube and all the other tubings .It's hard to explain withot knowing the case

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