Nasal rinses can relieve sinus congestion . But using the wrong liquid can, in rare cases, give people infections with deadly brain-eating amoebas . Amoebas commonly found in lakes, rivers and other bodies of water, but which can also live in tap water . The single-celled organisms can cause skin diseases , eye or lung infections and in the United States, most of which occurred in the past decade, researchers from the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report March 13 in Brain infections with those amoeba are almost always fatal, but the man lived thanks to early diagnosis and aggressive treatment, doctors from PNS Shifa Hospital and Aga Khan University in Karachi report March 13 in a separate study. It affects only three to 12 people each year in the United States. But about 82 percent of the infections are fatal. About three All 10 of the people in the CDC study had one or more conditions that weakened their immune systems, including cancer or HIV/AIDS. One person got infected after two weeks of rinsing, while others had been doing nasal washes for years
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