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Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas.

Two new studies document rare infections from using the wrong liquid for nasal rinses.

Brain-eating amoebas like Naegleria fowleri may lurk in tap water. Using unsterilized tap water for nasal rinses for health or religious reasons could, in rare cases, give people deadly brain infections.

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  • Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas. +1

    Two new studies document rare infections from using the wrong liquid for nasal rinses.

    Brain-eating amoebas like Naegleria fowleri may lurk in tap water. Using unsterilized tap water for nasal rinses for health or religious reasons could, in rare cases, give people deadly brain infections.

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    • That sounds really scary.