Tampa, FL man dies from brain-eating amoeba after rinsing sinuses with tap water

[Vermillion]

 

[Tusk]

I mean. The area had a massive hurricane recently. Who knows what’s in the water there.

[Zoe_]

Life is so f****d up. 

[JustLikeHoney]

Why is it always Florida. And the hat are the symptoms since I live in Orlando? 

[stochastic]

Not to victim blame but they explicitly tell you on the sinus rinse package several times not to use tap water because of cases like this…

 

I also irrationally don’t like to swim in small bodies of water either

Edited March 3, 2023 by stochastic

[Richmond]

Not me doing this my entire life and for the last 2 weeks because of the sinusitis I caught

[Shelter]

Horrible death 

[BraveNewSeth]

This is one of the things I’m most scared of  I pretty much quit swimming all together because of it. It’s one of those things where if you get it you’re basically already dead. 

[abrantino]

so I just looked this up out of curiosity and it's not as rare as I thought it was gonna be, new fear unlocked I guess

[Movimento Perpétuo]

[Kevin Parker]

[Kh-Loud]

I'm about to stop drinking TAP WATER.... WTF! 

[magazine]

They're in tap water now? 

[mystery]

2 minutes ago, Kh-Loud said:

I'm about to stop drinking TAP WATER.... WTF! 

The infection enters through your nose you can't get it from drinking tap water.

[Kh-Loud]

1 minute ago, mystery said:

The infection enters through your nose you can't get it from drinking tap water.

But it can't enter through your mouth ?  

[G.U.Y. Gaga]

21 minutes ago, Richmond said:

Not me doing this my entire life and for the last 2 weeks because of the sinusitis I caught

You want to get that checked out based on some of your post 

[Richmond]

1 minute ago, G.U.Y. Gaga said:

You want to get that checked out based on some of your post 

You struggling to type out a coherent sentence suggests you may want to take some of your own advice, user G.U.Y. Gaga.

 

OT: I think the likelihood also depends where you live but I can’t imagine constantly boiling some water, letting it cool down, and then doing it  I like mine at a certain perfect temperature that I can only determine by feeling the tap water

[Walk_Away21]

20 minutes ago, BraveNewSeth said:

This is one of the things I’m most scared of  I pretty much quit swimming all together because of it. It’s one of those things where if you get it you’re basically already dead. 

Ya lake swimming is scary these days tbh Chlorine swim pools should be fine. I think ocean water too because of the salt?

[theoghon]

The bacteria infests the hosts brain, multiplies and feeds on brain/nervous tissue 

[Pheromosa]

Delete this. The one shower a week crowd is going to use this as evidence 

[mystery]

6 minutes ago, Kh-Loud said:

But it can't enter through your mouth ?  

No it has to go through your nose, here is all the information on it provided by the CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/index.html

[Kh-Loud]

Just now, mystery said:

No it has to go through your nose, here is all the information on it provided by the CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/index.html

Thank you sis !

[MoonGoodandHappy]

what the hell

[Buffy]

37 minutes ago, stochastic said:

Not to victim blame but they explicitly tell you on the sinus rinse package several times not to use tap water because of cases like this…

 

I also irrationally don’t like to swim in small bodies of water either

Yeah… this also isn’t an isolated incident either. I just saw a similar news article last month where someone died the exact same way. Honestly, I’ve never done this before so I learned something new when I was reading comments where you’re supposed to use distilled water and not tap water. Unfortunate to die this way regardless!

[Buffy]

19 minutes ago, Juanny said:

I did this literally this morning cause I ran out of distilled water… FML.

Not me reading your post just right after I posted mine about distilled water…  I’ll come back and check on you in a couple weeks….

Edited March 3, 2023 by Buffy