Posted on 12/16/2011 11:57:16 AM PST by decimon
Saying “oh look, I was wrong, I learned something on FreeRepublic today, thank you for posting information on this rare occurring infection.” would be more fitting and accurate...
Assuming you actually are reasonable and capable of learning.
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
I think the heat will kill whatever it will kill if the water comes to a boil for long enough. Not a specific answer but it's what I have.
Reminds me of the scene in Crocodile Dundee. Got the coke sniffer to dump his coke into the pan and breathe in the steam.
The great thing about sagebrush is that you can still harvest and boil it during the winter, albeit at a lower concentration.
Leather or hide draped around the head works best to inhale the concentration. A towel (or one of those big chamois cloths) will work if you don't have a hide or large piece of leather handy.
I'm not sure where the eucalyptus leave custom comes from. I know the trees grow in California, but I believe they are native to Australia.
Too late, it appears. LOL!
Sometimes there’s just not enough rocks..
And other times there are too many...
Yeah, because that was all about the water. /sarc!
Actually it’s the combination of the high pH (a strong base) in the saliva followed immediately by the stomach’s low pH (a strong acid). The base kill some critters, the acid kills others. An interesting defense.
You’re one of those robots who believes anything you read, aren’t you?
Personally, I have enjoyed reproducing in salt water several times.
I mean really?
My Mother did the same thing (I have used this old trick a time or two myself). I can only assume the boiling water kills any sort of amoeba. The trick was to really hang some heavy towels over the person so they were able to breathe in the steam.
Water pic makes a solution for the neti pot with eucalyptus oil, sodium chloride sodium bicarbonate and aloe vera. FYI
wow
“My shower also doesn’t run amoebas.”
That’s highly doubtful. Amoebas are pretty much everywhere.
“If the water is safe to drink, what would make it unsafe to snort?”
Your body has a lot of safeguards to kill bad things that you put in your mouth, since you have to be putting bad stuff in there every day or you can’t survive. Your saliva has enzymes to break things down, and I believe it also has some other anti-microbial or anti-septic qualities as well. Once you get to the stomach, you’ve got hydrochloric acid to finish off most anything that the saliva couldn’t. If anything makes it through that to your intestines, you have beneficial bacteria colonies that will most likely starve it out, like a healthly lawn starves weeds. If it gets to the bloodstream, you’ve got antibodies that will attack it. Obviously, the body doesn’t have as many defenses between the sinuses and the brain, or this amoeba wouldn’t have made it through.
“would think well water would be worse than tap, but what do I know? :-)”
In a large part of the country, the tap water IS well water.
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