Texas woman dies from brain-eating amoeba after cleaning sinuses with tap water
Texas woman dies from brain-eating amoeba after cleaning sinuses with tap water
The woman contracted a fatal infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba and died eight days after developing symptoms.
The woman contracted a fatal infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba and died eight days after developing symptoms.
A Texas woman died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba days after she cleaned her sinuses using tap water, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case report.
The woman, an otherwise healthy 71-year-old, developed "severe neurologic symptoms," including fever, headache and an altered mental status, four days after she filled a nasal irrigation device with tap water from her RV's water system at a Texas campsite, the CDC report said.
She was treated for primary amebic meningoencephalitis — a brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, often referred to as the "brain-eating amoeba." Despite treatment, the woman experienced seizures and died from the infection eight days after she developed symptoms, the agency said.
You're viewing a single thread.
Neti pots and similar have very, very clear warnings that the water needs to be sterilized.
Is it the powder that I'm dumping into the water every time? I was just doing it to follow instructions. If it's because of this, then thank goodness!
[edit]I was definitely wrong, and there are some good guides on getting distilled water on YouTube! check 'em out[/edit]
That powder is salt and will not sterilize the water. Used distilled water.
Doesn't boiled filtered water work fine too?
Boiled, yes. Filtered...well there's so many different filtration methods of varying intensity the safest answer is "no"
Because someone's gonna use a britta jug....
Filtered and boiled, not or.
Don't need to both
I'm gonna and you can't stop me!
You madman!
To be fair: some things you shouldn’t cheap out on (as noted by the deceased woman in this post).
Is that cheaping out? How do you know for certain that supposedly distilled water was properly distilled, stored, and never contaminated before or after opening?
Bonus risk if you live in the United States where they're gutting federal safety agencies
If you're gonna do that level of paranoia, the easy fix is to boil or distill your own water
Reread my post lol
I mean… I get the FDA isn’t the trustful advisory it once was, but if I had a few dollars to choose between the “sterilized” gallon jug and a nasal blast from a Texan KOA campsite, I know what’d I’d choose.
I'd go with neither and use water I personally filtered and sterilized for the sake of certainty and safety even if it came from a jug labelled "distilled".
It does.
From this point on I absolutely will! Thanks!
It's saline. So salt and baking soda