The woman contracted a fatal infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba and died eight days after developing symptoms.
A Texas woman died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba days after she cleaned her sinuses using tap water, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case report.
The woman, an otherwise healthy 71-year-old, developed “severe neurologic symptoms,” including fever, headache and an altered mental status, four days after she filled a nasal irrigation device with tap water from her RV’s water system at a Texas campsite, the CDC report said.
She was treated for primary amebic meningoencephalitis — a brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, often referred to as the “brain-eating amoeba.” Despite treatment, the woman experienced seizures and died from the infection eight days after she developed symptoms, the agency said.
I hope it tells you to let the boiling water cool, too. I feel like that’s an important step.
… cue the optometrist meme
I found it, sorry for the delay friends
What is the optometrist meme?
Optometrist - “So these are your new contacts. If they irritate your eyes, you can clean your eyes with boiled water”
He grabs me and makes me look him directly in the eyes.
Optometrist - “Look at me. Look at me! Boiled water. Not boiling water. Water that has been booked than cooked. Understand?”
*boiled then cooled. This phone is a nightmare for typing.
Booked then cooked sounds like a good album title ngl.
… booked than cooked?
Boiled than cooled. My phones autocorrect is a nightmare where I had to type most of this a single letter at a time
I updated my comment to have the meme
It doesn’t clean the sinuses as well. I personally run the boiled water through my soda stream, then directly into the face holes.
Which soda stream syrup do you use?
Maple.
I’m mentally hearing the blart from my jet as it hits peak carbonation, and mentally seeing the spray of water out the other nose and my god sir, you are a dilophosaur
The article does, so the fact that the first comment got 34 updoots and is labelling this as fear mongering makes me sad that lemmy is becoming reddit faster than I thought
Way more people read the headline than the article itself, and the writers know that, but decided to only and specifically call it “tap water” in the headline. They knew it’ll get more clicks, and seemingly didn’t care about the people who will come away from it with a misconception.
We talkin’ ’bout the title. “… her RV’s tap water” at the end would be enough.
Yes, it is a pretty common step to let boiled water cool before consuming it in any regard.
It tells you to use boiled water.