Can your neti pot kill you?
Many may not know what a neti pot is "well it aides in cleaning out your sinuses." It is a small kettle that is filled with water and saline it's placed at your nostrils and poured with the head tilted back into the nose and it flushes out the nose. Many use it for a stuffy nose and sinus headache. Well it seems that two people have died from using their neti pot. The reason for the deaths are from amoeba's parasites that eat the brain.
The water must be sterilized by boiling or use distilled water when using your neti pot. The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri are found in lakes, ponds and contaminated tap water. When ingested it's fine, but when placed in the nose it can cause symptoms resembling bacterial meningitis:headaches, vomiting and sleepiness. When the amoeba has reached the brain 95% of the time it's fatal. Death usually occurs 1 to 12 days later. The infection is known as amebic meningoencephalitis.
Chat Me More has written about amoeba in the summer, due to three people dying when they swam in a lake. The amoeba went through their nose while swimming.
If you click on the right to the summer months you will be able to view the article.
If you must use a neti pot boil the water or use distilled water. If you must swim in lakes or ponds use nose plugs.
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