I’ve seen that you should buy distilled water to rinse your nose with, but I probably get regular water in my eyes and nose when I shower anyways wouldn’t it be dangerous while showering also?
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My wife rinses her eyes with tap water every day (some kind of family tradition I guess, apparently it feels refreshing)
This can’t be good for her, right? Like is it just as bad as putting tap water up your nose?
The only times I ever rinsed my inner nose was after a weekend bender and I wanted to flush out some stuff so the next day I wouldn’t breath in and suddenly become, lively…
Yes. In places like Florida where brain eating amoeba is in the tap (and a fuck-ton of lead), you should avoid letting it get up your nose.
“How Floridians can avoid brain-eating amoeba infections”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2023/03/08/how-floridians-can-avoid-brain-eating-amoeba-infections/
“EPA says Florida has most lead pipes in U.S.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-says-florida-has-most-lead-pipes-in-u-s
So if you want to do sterile nose rinses, please buy a gallon of distilled water, or boil a gallon of water, add 33 NaCl 1g tablets, and you have a saline solution you can pour into a Neti pot, whenever you want to use it.
Never ever put tap water that deeply into your nose.
Your nose is a direct pathway to your brain.
It’s also why you wear a mask OVER your nose, to avoid Covid, because you do NOT want Covid to go straight into your brain. Trust me.
Edit: this article tells you where you can find brain eating amoeba, in the U.S.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/14/brain-eating-amoeba-symptoms-naegleria-fowleri/70313265007/#:~:text=In%20the%20past%20decade%2C%20cases,when%20water%20temperatures%20are%20warmer.
Uh, you shouldn’t be snorting *any* water in the shower. Maybe if you’re a child who’s taking a shower for the very first time, but shower water shouldn’t be getting into your body in any significant way.
My mother is in her 5th month of battling Acanthamoeba keratitis in her eye. She apparently got it by washing her face with tap water (city water, not well water) and most likely got some under a contact lens and the infection entered into her cornea. Don’t look it up the pics are nasty. Doctors say she probably has 6+ months more of treatment left before she will most likely need a transplant.
Point is, even treated city water has some nasty shit in it and there are chances that stuff can get into places it shouldn’t. Rising your nose by forcing water up it vs just showering is quite a world of difference and there is a chance some bad shit can happen, especially putting it up into your nasal cavity which has some thin membranes or could have some scratches.
Brain-eating amoebas. They can get in through the nose if water goes deep enough and will start a fatal battle with your immune system that will literally blow holes in your brain in about a week’s time. Avoid dunking your head in fresh water. Only ocean water or properly-chlorinated water is safe from brain-eating amoebas.
Not that I think it’s been found in tap water, but please research “Brain eating amoeba” to stop trusting it up your nose.
Are you doing handstands in the shower or something?
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