LifeFuel Amoeba destroys a foid's brain from the inside

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Washington woman dead from brain-eating amoeba after using neti pot filled with tap water, report says

https://www.foxnews.com/health/wash...eti-pot-filled-with-tap-water-report-says.amp

A Seattle, Washington woman whose brain was partly a “ball of bloody mush” after rare brain-eating amoebas infected her likely contracted the organisms after she used a neti pot full of tap water to clear her sinuses, according to a report.

The woman, who was not been identified, was admitted to the Swedish Medical Center earlier this year after she had a seizure, The Seattle Times reported. An initial CT scan revealed what doctors believed was a tumor.

But they would soon learn that what was inside the woman’s skull was not a tumor at all.

The contaminated water went up the woman’s nose “toward [the] olfactory nerves in the upper part of her nasal cavity,” The Seattle Times reported, which ultimately caused the infection which first appeared as a red sore on her nose.

“It’s such an incredibly uncommon disease it was not on anyone’s radar that this initial nose sore would be related to her brain,” Keenan Piper, a Swedish Medical Center employee and co-author of the study, told the newspaper.

 

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I first learned about amoeba eating brains maybe 15+ years ago from some new story about this happening to someone from swimming in a lake. Apparently, there are a lot of amoeba in the dirt/soil/sand in lakes, so if you're swimming in a lake, you're not supposed to kick up or swim right down to the dirt. If they find their way into your nose they will climb into your brain and eat it til you're a vegetable or dead in very fast time.

I've always been cautious since when I'm in a lake.