Neti Pot Use Linked To Contraction Of Brain-Eating Amoeba
December 28, 2011
The Louisiana Department of Health issued a warning to hospitals and state residents not to use tap water in neti pots to rinse your nasal passages out. According to CBS 6 News, the warning comes after a 51-year-old woman died in the state earlier in the month after becoming infected with a deadly, brain-eating amoeba.
Neti pots are devices that look like small tea posts that are inserted into the nose and then used to flush the sinuses with warm water. Doctors say the woman contracted the amoeba through plain tap water she used with the pot to rinse out her sinuses.
The Naegleria fowleri amoeba is commonly found in waters of the southeastern United States. The amoeba feeds on the brain of its host once it has made its way past the plates of the skull. The most common way for this to occur is through the nasal cavity. People are rarely infected, but the most common way it occurs is when water goes up the nose while swimming in rivers and lakes.
Dr. Otto Yang, associate chief of the division of infectious diseases at UCLA‘s Geffen School of Medicine, says the best way to prevent being infected is to use boiled or distilled water in neti pots.
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