DO I HAVE BRAIN EATING AMOEBA!??
okay well im at this hotel and I was swimming in the pool, and the pool wasn't really dirty, not dirty dirty. But it had small specks of little dirt and leaves in it but definitely not a lot, but as I was swimming water shot up my nose and I had some sinus issues after so I researched and brain eating amoeba came up and I'm so scared. The pool was cold but right now I just took a hot bath, and now my head feels weird, like a weird burning feeling and I feel anxious because I have anxiety but I'm not so sure if it's because of my anxiety because I'm not stressing about.it a lot. Just...to the point where I wonder...what should I do I don't know what to do!? Am I fine??
Do i have the brain eating amoeba?
I might have the Brain eating amoeba and im pretty scared. So here's my story. So i went camping with my family and friends 3 days ago and we live in oregon. We went in a lake that is pretty cold but some parts are alitle warm. Not sure if the kids just pee'd there ha. But anyways my friends pushed me serveral times and got the water in my nost several times. And also we went tubing and got water in my nose again! Now i have a little headache and a stiff neck and pretty scared. So again the water was cold a pit warm in some places, had water go in my nose about 6 times, and have stiff neck. please help me guys im worried, i dont want to die at 15 years of age.
Do i have the brain eating amoeba?
Well, this is my story. This weekend I was in Indiana in Lake Syracuse, and I was tubing with my family there on the lake, i was wondering if I could have got the Brain eating amoeba? The water there was 70-80 degrees but while we were tubing, we were going about 25 miles/h and the wind made it super cold for me, so could i have gotten the amoeba while I was tubing and could water have splashed up into my nose and the amoeba got in? Also, i fell in the water a couple times for going to fast, so i was wondering if i could have got the Amoeba from falling in the water? I was on the surface only and only went beneath the surface to my mouth( we were wearing life vests). Could I have got the amoeba then? There was also another situation. after we went tubing, my family drove our boat to the shore to swim in the lake for a bit. It was called the "Sandbox" because there was sand on the bottom. The shore was only about 3-4 feet high and when i jumped in off the boat i went a little bit underwater and some water got in my nose, could I have got the Amoeba then? The lake is clean. Please, help me. I don't want to die I'm only 13. :( The only symptom I have is a headache but it isn't bad at all, i think it's because of me stressing this. IM Really scared.I don't want to leave my mom alone. :( Please, i need answers to be assured. It has been 2 days since then.
Do I have a risk for the brain-eating amoeba?
That particular little amoeba lives in pond and lake water, not tap water. Tap water is treated with chlorine to disinfect it, to a sufficient level that any critters living in it would be dead. Unless your tap water is drawn from a warm, freshwater pond or lake, and doesn't get treated at all, you are quite safe. I believe at the moment, your ambient temperatures would have killed them all in the freshwater anyway. The infection is also quite rare, despite the news reports of the six young men who were infected- which by the way happened in 2007. The amoeba just doesn't live in treated tap water, dear. I think the story you heard is actually a horrific retelling of the story line of a tv show in the US, called House. The writers took a bit of creative license with the story line using the amoeba to infect two boys. The symptoms, and result- their blindness - aren't even related to the infection. As long as you aren't swimming in warm fresh water ponds and lakes, meaning a temperature between 25-35 Celsius or 75-95 Farenheit, you are just fine. And I do believe the water in Canada at the moment is a lot colder than that. Your hot water heater would have taken care of the incoming water, just in case the chlorine didn't. So you need to chill out here, and quit driving yourself buggy with rare diseases.
Brain eating amoeba and Neti pot?
Just rinsed my nasal pathway with a neti pot and didn’t know to use sterile or boiled water however I used the saline solution. Should I be worried? Just saw the news of a woman dying in Seattle from using a neti pot with tap water which is what I did. I live in San Diego and was surfing which is why I rinsed my nasal pathways. Would it help to rinse again with boiled water? Any help would be appreciated as I freaked myself out. Thanks.
How do you avoid brain eating amoebas?
Filter, boil, decant into a clean glass container, allow to cool, and then use a lid to cover your drinking water. 100% of the time.Swim in properly chlorinated pools or soak in properly chlorinated hot tubs. Always.Hold your water district authorities and elected officials to being transparent. Quarterly and yearly with a PAC or local equivalent.Reject these three ideas as too simplistic, too idealistic, and way too easy?Reject the “possibility” that plastic exposed to heat can be bad?Reject the effectiveness of your political process at your local level?Know anyone who can’t handle the reality (or have any interest) that a tiny amoeba can be a deadly pathogen? Know anyone who can’t handle the fact that human beings are living longer with age-related, weakened immune systems? Often describes self as “tough as nails”? Struggles brain-wise to age graciously or to stay informed or to do both?Then update him or her to always drink “properly stored” bottled water, to never swim nor soak in standing water (ponds or lakes), and to shower with no open wounds or sores or skin breaks (especially for dry skin, eczema, skin allergies, closely cut finger and toe nails, body piercings, rashes, and hemorrhoids), and with no shower water entering his or her ears, eyes, nose, throat, and other bodily openings.How do you avoid shark bites? Never swim in an ocean or salt water bay. But saying that now would be similar to playing a broken record.For millennials: What’s a broken record, what’s a broken record, what’s a broken record, . . . . . .
Could you get brain eating amoeba from cold tap water in the UK?
Brain eating amoeba is naegleria fowler.i It’s a very rare and unlucky event that typically happens by jumping into a fresh water pool feet first and having contaminated water go up the nose to the base of the brain where the olfactory nerves traverse the bone.It’s very rarely been reported by people using tap water in neti pots to clean their sinuses.It’s advisable to pre boil tap water or even better yet, to use sterile sinus saline packets for sinus rinsing.Drinking tap water isn’t a risk.(CBS News) Researchers believe that two people who died from the "brain-eating" amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri in 2011 contracted the infection after using neti pots with tap water to clear their sinuses.Typically, people contract the amoeba from swimming in warm freshwater lakes and rivers since the organism thrives in warm temperatures. However, the victims - a 28-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman from Louisiana - had not been near freshwater. The only thing they had in common was that they both routinely used the tap water with neti pots. Further tests on their home plumbing came back positive for the amoeba, although the city's water distribution systems' tests came back negative. The parasite was found in a tankless water heater in the man's home and in the bathroom sink and faucet tub of the woman's home.Tap water in neti pots behind two brain-eating amoeba deaths in 2011, investigation findsIs My Neti Pot Going to Kill Me?Brain-Eating Amoeba Lurks in Warm Summer Water
I am scared I might have a brain eating amoeba. What are the chances?
As Madalyn Zimbric says, the odds are very much against it.Still. . . if you start noticing any signs of meningitis, especially sudden fever, vomiting, headaches, and/or stiff neck, go to the doctor immediately. Even if it’s not Naegleria fowleri, the “brain-eating amoeba”, it could be bacterial or viral meningitis.Also—there’s something else about Naegleria fowleri: it migrates into the brain along your olfactory nerve, which is responsible for your sense of smell. It damages this nerve as it migrates, so an early warning sign of amoebic meningoencephalitis is loss of the sense of smell, especially in the absence of other obvious causes like blocked nostrils and such. This is not meant to scare you—the odds that you could get it are still extremely low, so please do not freak out. But on the million-to-one chance that you do have Naegleria, the sooner it gets treated, the better your chances. In the unlikely event that you do develop symptoms, this is one you would want to mention to your doctor.And your chances are better than they used to be. Four years ago, a 12-year-old girl in Little Rock, Arkansas caught Naegleria fowleri by swimming in a local waterpark—and she survived, thanks to the doctors at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, who diagnosed her quickly and got special permission to use a drug that had just been approved to treat rare but life-threatening amoeba infections, miltefosine. The girl, Kali Hardig, survived and made a full recovery. (See: CDC Offers Hope in Fighting Brain-Eating Ameba. News reports: How a 12-Year-Old Survived a Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection ; Kali Hardig, brain-eating amoeba survivor, to begin school next week . And here’s a technical report on her case: Successful treatment of an adolescent with Naegleria fowleri primary amebic meningoencephalitis. )So you almost certainly do not have “brain-eating amoebas.” But monitor your own health, just in case. And if you’re really worried, move to Arkansas, because they know what to do at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.