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Neti pots' brain-eating amoeba causes scare among sinus sufferers

BY LINDSAY GOLDWERT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Originally Published: Saturday, December 17 2011, 2:00 AM

Neti pots are recommended by some doctors for easing sinus congestion.

Stuffy sufferers who rely on neti pots for sinus relief face a new threat: The news that two neti pot users in Louisiana died from a brain-eating amoeba has prompted an alert and a health warning from experts!

The pot, which resembles a small watering can or teapot, is still highly recommended by doctors for patients who suffer from sinus congestion!

Why??

I knew shouldn't have used my teapot for a Neti pot.

Why don't they, like me, just use a bowl of steaming water with a towel over their heads to keep the steam in? Add a bit of tincture of benzoin or a menthol crystal and there you have it clear sinuses in a short time.

Neti teapots? Why do they have to turn even sinusitis cures into a fashion statement?

They could have named the guilty amoeba instead of casting aspersions over the whole of amoeboidkind.

The bad lot in question is Naegleria fowlerii -

Acanthamoeba sp. will have a go at your eyes and ulcerate them if you don't keep your contact lens solutions clean.

Entamoeba histolytica will give you the squits and he is a nasty one he needs to pass though human intestines so is a proper parasite rather than an opportunist like the others. Serves you right for eating salads and drinking water in the tropics.

Benzoin? that sounds like a Benzedrine and heroin mix, plus Meth and spirits?

What kind of cold cure is that?

Iain

Peruvian Balsam - a resin from Myroxylon spp a tropical treeof the pea family. It also sometimes goes under the name of Tolu balsam in solid form. When dissolved it is usually the pure benzoin.

Any chemist will sell you it - you can also get it as tablets that fizz in hot water. Ask for 'Perubar' I'm sure it's available in the UK. If you want to suffer you can stick a spoonful of Vics or a piece of Camphor in the hot water but you'll regret it.

In hospitals they used to give inhalations of it as a regular treatment for the cough the anaesthetics used to give you. They don't do it any more after the newer anaesthetics which is the reason there are so many of the inhalers sold on ebay.

You asked for that

I ad that Nerdi Pots on me trip to Slatmungier.
The quack gave me sumpot of lentil, did the job.
Me brain has not been..ARSE! ARSE! ARSE!....Effected though.



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