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Don’t use unsterilized tap water to rinse your sinuses. It may carry brain-eating amoebas (www.sciencenews.org)
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[–] Brocon@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What hell hole country shit is this? Holy fuck. Is the municipal water really that bad in your part of the world?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Your part of the world" is most of the world.

In the country I grew up in, drinking directly from the tap is playing russian roulette.

You either filter the water, or boil it first before consuming it.

When I moved to a country in which tap water was drinkable, it blew my mind. Of course, it's totally normal to me nowadays.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The shit we have to do to make it drinkable will probably also blow your mind.

Water is essential to all life on this planet. Imagine drinking water that no other organisms can live in.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Oh, I saw a couple of documentaries about water treatment a couple of decades ago.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where I live has some of the best water in the world and I was still given this speech when I bought a neti pot

[–] Brocon@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I couldn't even imagine this. I consume tap water daily. And to be honest also never heard such storys before this.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah sinus rinse requires already boiled water, even straight from the glacier, I think it's super sensitive to infection

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can consume it, the infection happens if it gets into your nose.

[–] Brocon@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That much I got. Thank you. I just don't get the part why people would do this?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Health reasons. Blocked sinuses or something.

[–] Brocon@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Okay. Thank you. I read up about it after all this. That was/is a total foreign concept to me and it would never have occurred to me. And to be honest I find it disgusting.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

May I ask how old you are? I'm not dissing you or anything. I'm just trying to learn when I'm talking to a young person, vs an old one, based on what they write.

Having said that, it's funny when people say things like that when we all have a hole that spews shit every day.