Water related subject

I was a bit taken back when a news story about 3 people this year dying this year of a rare
amobea going up their noise from dirty water. I would not bring it up but one down in LA was using a nettie pot
with tap water in his home. Test claim only his house had the bug in its water not the rest of the city water supply.
the news said the nettie pot should be used only with distilled water.

I have always used tap water when nothing else is convient .Trips of short stays away from home etc.

Any one who has scuba dived has had a lot of different kinds of water in their nose. but it makes one think about it.

thanks
ab

I'm not that worried, but yes, snorting water infested with Naegleria or other dangerous organisms is a bad idea. Distilled water is safer for neti or Sinus Rinse.

Showering with contaminated water can be bad. Aerosols are a good way to breathe in bad organisms.

Drinking such water is also bad.

Presumably the guy doing neti was also drinking and showering with the same water. Perhaps neti had nothing to do with it, but I do believe neti is a "better" way to get infected than drinking water or showering.

Now some statistics: There has been one Naeglaria infection reported in the US in recorded history. There have been two other Naeglaria deaths in the US this year from people involved in sports activities in lakes or rivers. There were 32 reported deaths between 2001 and 2010, 30 from outdoor watersports, 2 from drinking water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri

There may very well be more deaths that didn't get diagnosed as Naegleria.

It's a serious organism, but it's very rare, even here in Texas. More people have been seriously injured from chlorine poisoning from their swimming pools than Naegleria from a lake. Extreme heats in excess of 108 (I think) cause the chlorine in a pool to evaporate into a cloud that hangs just above the surface of the pool... where your head is. It's very dangerous and most people are ignorant of it's existence. The real rub is that then the pool is not properly chlorinated allowing Naegleria to breed in the pools too, so then you have a double whammy. This is one of the many reasons people are converting to salt water pools in very harsh climates.

FYI

viewtopic/t67351/Naegleria-fowleri--aka ... moeba.html

archangle wrote:Now some statistics: There has been one Naeglaria infection reported in the US in recorded history. There have been two other Naeglaria deaths in the US this year from people involved in sports activities in lakes or rivers. There were 32 reported deaths between 2001 and 2010, 30 from outdoor watersports, 2 from drinking water.

Does this mean that drinking water is more dangerous than CPAP?

Otter wrote:Does this mean that drinking water is more dangerous than CPAP?

It probably means that when one of us CPAP users dies, the coroner assumes whatever the heck that hose thing was for is what killed us and doesn't bother to look for a cause. "After all, Cletis, he wouldn't have a hose thingie if he wasn't about daid anyway, now would he? Or is that one of them there marywanner hookah things? "