Posted on 12/16/2011 11:57:16 AM PST by decimon
Louisiana's state health department has issued a warning about the dangers of improperly using nasal-irrigation devices called neti pots, responding to two recent deaths in the state that are thought to have resulted from "brain-eating amoebas" entering people's brains through their sinuses while they were using the devices.
Both victims are believed to have filled their neti pots with tap water instead of manufacturer-recommended distilled or sterilized water. When they used these pots to force the water up their noses and flush out their sinus cavities — a treatment for colds and hay fever — a deadly amoeba living in the tap water, called Naegleria fowleri, worked its way from their sinuses into their brains. The parasitic organism infected the victims' brains with a neurological disease called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAME), which rapidly destroys neural tissue and typically kills sufferers in a matter of days.
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Yikes. I’ll stick to my go to cure Whiskey spiked with some honey and maybe some zicam....
Yikes!
I always thought you were supposed to use saline solution with those things, not plain water (sterile or otherwise), for some reason.
But whatever the case, yikes! What a horrible way to go.
Why do you need some sort of unsanitary-sounding pot?
Makes me wonder about bottled spring water.
My mother suffered from acute bronchitis as a child, and my grandmother set a big boiling pot on the stove, brought the water to boil,and tented my mother over the steaming water. I’m sure she took all the reasonable safety precautions, because my mother lived to a ripe old age.
Anybody who’s neti pot is unsanitary probably has hands just as unsanitary. And of course your shower doesn’t run distilled water.
Uh based on the article, using your shower water may kill you.
We use a plastic squeeze bottle system which comes with the saline packets. I’m still not sure if the salt kills everything right away, we use distilled water or else we have boiled tap water. You have to really let the boiled water cool to near room temperature.
If the water is safe to drink, what would make it unsafe to snort?
Now that you mention it, I feel a cold coming on. I better go to the liquor store just to be safe... Do you have any flu cures that involve beer? If so, I might also have a flu coming on...
Maybe this explains why more liberals live in the North. Amoebas have begun eating their brains. Explains a lot about Washington D.C. too. We send conservatives there and, before long, they’re acting just like the libs. Something in the water...
Based on thirty years of doing it that way, I would say the article is trying to sell neti whatevers.
If the water is safe to drink, why would it be unsafe to snort?
A logical answer please.
There are no digestive juices in your sinuses.
You just made that up, didn't you?
“the water is safe to drink, what would make it unsafe to snort?”
Personally, my nose is not filled with acid.
“You have to really let the boiled water cool to near room temperature.”
Gee.......How come, isnt boiling water sucked up your nose OK?
Wow, I knew liberals were in Louisiana, but didn’t know they were in the water as well.
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