Re: Dangers of swimming in ponds AND neti pots

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Not only ponds....a third death was noted as:The third case, in Louisiana, was more unusual. It was a young man whose death in June was traced to the tap water he used in a device called a neti pot. It's a small teapot-shaped container used to rinse out the nose and sinuses with salt water to relieve allergies, colds and sinus trouble.Health officials later found the amoeba in the home's water system. The problem was confined to the house; it wasn't found in city water samples, said Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana's state epidemiologist.The young man, who was only identified as in his 20s and from southeast Louisiana, had not been swimming nor been in contact with surface water, Ratard added.He said only sterile, distilled, or boiled water should be used in neti pots.http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/17/third-death-traced-to-infection-from-amoeba-in-water/?test=latestnewsRead more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/17/third-death-traced-to-infection-from-amoeba-in-water/#ixzz1VOyP1hXQ--- On Wed, 8/17/11, asfy <asfyso@...> wrote:From: asfy <asfyso@...>Subject: Dangers of swimming in pondssamters Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 11:12 PM

This is an article about a rare disease, but the same contamination path (through the nasal area) may be used by other germs present in ponds and rivers. Note that a dysfunctional nasal mucosa is less likely to be able to defend the body against any germs that may come in contact with it.http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/17/amoeba.kids.deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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WowBianca On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:17 AM, M Do <michellemdo@...> wrote:

Not only ponds....a third death was noted as:The third case, in Louisiana, was more unusual. It was a young man whose death in June was traced to the tap water he used in a device called a neti pot. It's a small teapot-shaped container used to rinse out the nose and sinuses with salt water to relieve allergies, colds and sinus trouble.Health officials later found the amoeba in the home's water system. The problem was confined to the house; it wasn't found in city water samples, said Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana's state epidemiologist.The young man, who was only identified as in his 20s and from southeast Louisiana, had not been swimming nor been in contact with surface water, Ratard added.He said only sterile, distilled, or boiled water should be used in neti pots.http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/17/third-death-traced-to-infection-from-amoeba-in-water/?test=latestnewsRead more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/17/third-death-traced-to-infection-from-amoeba-in-water/#ixzz1VOyP1hXQ--- On Wed, 8/17/11, asfy <asfyso@...> wrote:From: asfy <asfyso@...>Subject: Dangers of swimming in pondssamters Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 11:12 PM

This is an article about a rare disease, but the same contamination path (through the nasal area) may be used by other germs present in ponds and rivers. Note that a dysfunctional nasal mucosa is less likely to be able to defend the body against any germs that may come in contact with it.http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/17/amoeba.kids.deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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My ENT advised me years ago to avoid the neti pot and nasal rinses because the risk of infection (for me, anyway) was too high.Billie Ford msbfford@... ""Real power is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose." Rollo MayFrom: asfy <asfyso@...>Subject: Dangers of swimming in pondssamters Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 11:12 PM

This is an article about a rare disease, but the same contamination path (through the nasal area) may be used by other germs present in ponds and rivers. Note that a dysfunctional nasal mucosa is less likely to be able to defend the body against any germs that may come in contact with it.http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/17/amoeba.kids.deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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> From: billie ford <msbfford@...>

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> My ENT advised me years ago to avoid the neti pot and nasal rinses because the

> risk of infection (for me, anyway) was too high.

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Yeah, right. He thinks that it is so much safer to have your nose and

sinuses constantly full of sticky gunk rather than a sterile saline solution

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Thanks , I read the article too fast and missed the neti pot.

Safe irrigation is a sterile solution in a sterile pot, and washing hands before

use.

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> This is an article about a rare disease, but the same contamination path

(through the nasal area) may be used by other germs present in ponds and rivers.

Note that a dysfunctional nasal mucosa is less likely to be able to defend the

body against any germs that may come in contact with it.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/17/amoeba.kids.deaths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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