The use of tap water in a nasal-flushing Neti pot likely led to a Seattle woman's death from a brain-eating amoeba, doctors wrote in a case study. What to know:
or saline, it's believed the 69-year-old woman used tap water she'd put in a filter-equipped pitcher,The amoeba got into her upper nasal cavity and then into her bloodstream, eventually reaching her brain, according to the study in theThis a rare case that serves as a reminder for people to follow the directions when using a
, and to use only boiled or distilled water, said Dr. Charles Cobbs, a neurosurgeon at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle who treated the woman,"She had not been boiling water, using sterile water or using sterile saline. She had been using water that had been put through a filter and maybe it had been sitting there and somehow the amoeba from somewhere else got in there. So that's what we suspect is the source of the infection," Cobbs said.
Swimming in warm freshwater lakes and rivers is the most common cause of such cases, but there are rare instances where such infections occur after tap water gets into the nose, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.CBS News
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