The woman contracted a fatal infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba and died eight days after developing symptoms.
A Texas woman died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba days after she cleaned her sinuses using tap water, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case report.
The woman, an otherwise healthy 71-year-old, developed “severe neurologic symptoms,” including fever, headache and an altered mental status, four days after she filled a nasal irrigation device with tap water from her RV’s water system at a Texas campsite, the CDC report said.
She was treated for primary amebic meningoencephalitis — a brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, often referred to as the “brain-eating amoeba.” Despite treatment, the woman experienced seizures and died from the infection eight days after she developed symptoms, the agency said.
Yes, you could, but you’re not gonna.
Most humidifiers these days use sound pulses to aerosolize the water, my brain (without any need to look this up to confirm) likes to think anything living in the water gets blasted.
I’m not gonna go snorting lines of humidifier air though
Sound waves won’t do anything about bacteria or spores. You’ll need something like UV treatment.
I watch Technology Connections so I use a wicked humidifier. But I also put sanitizer in the water.
Oh never heard of wick type. That may solve the issue altogether.
Based on my 2 min of research it needs filters. Sigh I just wanna dump the tap into the machine.
You don’t want tap water in any kind of humidifier. They will all get scale buildup from the minerals in the water. The water evaporates one way or the other. Minerals won’t.
The whole point of a humidifier with a wick is that you can use tap water with it. When the mineral buildup gets to be too much, simply replace the wick.
Don’t listen to the person who replied to you first. The entire point of a humidifier with a wick is that you can just use tap water. When you get too much mineral buildup, simply replace the wick. I’ve been running a humidifier year round since 2021 with tap water and never had an issue.
I kind of do that…
Que sera.