I love all this techno babble. Kelvin, Celsius, Fahrenheit, Cookie -- some of the greatest scientific minds of our age brought together by a humble one-celled organism. I realize I could take all the precautions on the world, never meet a Naegleria fowleri, and be struck by a meteorite on my 152nd b...

Any amount of time boiling should be sufficient to kill just about anything. One minute would be more than enough. I keep my CPAP water in a sealed cup in my refrigerator. I'll refill my reservoir in the morning, and by evening it's at room temperature. I agree it's tragic what has happened. I swam ...

There has been one recorded death from Naegleria in a neti pot user for all of time in the US. He was presumably drinking and showering in the same water supply, so maybe he would have got it without neti. Roughly 32 people died from Naegleria in the US between 2001 and 2010. http://en.wikipedia.or...

Beer in you CPAP might help you sleep!

Granted, and in drinking beer, you don't have to worry about contaminated ice cubes, too.

I'm not one to jump on any hysteria band wagon, nor do I wish to START one, but when I read the following news report, I was alarmed. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/wireStory?id=14328749 The third case, in Louisiana, was more unusual. It was a young man whose death in June was traced to the t...