Brain eating amoeba, (or Naegleria fowleri,) is the nasty thing.
Your nasal passages come very close to your brain--so be careful what goes up there.

... of tap water causing any real harm, but if it does, it may be something very serious like a fatal amoeba disease: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria ... ution.html https://i.imgflip.com/779opu.jpg All in fun, I'm glad you are here. :D LOL. I noticed that as well. 0 cases of naegleria associated ...

... of tap water causing any real harm, but if it does, it may be something very serious like a fatal amoeba disease: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria ... ution.html https://i.imgflip.com/779opu.jpg All in fun, I'm glad you are here. :D

... of tap water causing any real harm, but if it does, it may be something very serious like a fatal amoeba disease: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/ritual-ablution.html

... than using municipal tap water. The chances of dropping the distilled water on your toe and dieing from gout, is greater than the chances getting Naegleria Fowleri from municipal tap water.

Granny, Here's two that were fatal.. To my knowledge, there has never been a death due to Naegleria fowleri contamination in any US municipal water system. The same may be true for UK municipal systems. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-dies ... e-sinuses/ There is ...

To my knowledge, there has never been a death due to Naegleria fowleri contamination in any US municipal water system. The same may be true for UK municipal systems. Naegleria fowleri has caused deaths associated with using disinfected public drinking ...

... of this to ask: the humidifier is perfectly fine to use right? IMO, it is perfectly fine to use the manufacturer’s humidifier with clean water. “Naegleria fowleri has not been shown to spread via water vapor or aerosol droplets (such as shower mist or vapor generated from a humidifier) “ - according ...

heoun wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 22, 2022 4:28 am

.. the risk of me getting a brain eating bacteria.

Ironically, the thing he's probably referring to (Naegleria fowleri) is actually an ameba, and it eats...


...bacteria.

I definitely would be careful with municipal water. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/public-water-systems-louisiana.html Your point? Bottled water contains more bacteria than tap water. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/7763038/Bottled-water-contains-more-bacteria-than-tap-water.html ...

... method of water delivery is a Neti pot. The need for sterility is explicitly stated due to the (extremely small) risk posed by another amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, and it is the reason the FDA requires (in the absence of sterile water) a specific kind of filter capable of removing the amoeba ...

synapse wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:59 pm

I definitely would be careful with municipal water.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria ... siana.html

2013 called....

I definitely would be careful with municipal water.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria ... siana.html

... someone who died this way. According to the CDC, there were only three deaths in ten years. That's among a population which is now 320 million. Naegleria fowleri infections are rare*. In the 10 years from 2008 to 2017, 34 infections were reported in the U.S. Of those cases, 30 people were infected ...

... in their neti pots (a pot used to pour water into one's nasal passages to clear out nasty stuff). Apparently there was some kind of amoeba called naegleria fowleri that got into the water supply and caused a serious infection. This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with cpap usage, you're breathing ...