Neti pots linked to brain-eating amoeba deaths

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Neti pots linked to brain-eating amoeba deaths

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I use one of these occasionally. Make sure you use distilled water and not tap water.

"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."



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YES! The beginning of the zombie apocalypse.
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From what I understand, we really don't have those things in our water supply here, it's too cold a climate. You could get a bacterial/fungal infection, though.
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I use one and the instructions clearly say to only use bottled or purified water. Somebody didn't read the directions.
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Hawk wrote:I use one of these occasionally. Make sure you use distilled water and not tap water.

"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."



http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/ ... eba-deaths
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witchhunt wrote:YES! The beginning of the zombie apocalypse.
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those aemeba would starve if i was ever infected :lol:
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