Topic: Amoeba Awareness
Anonymous A started this discussion 13 years ago #24,729
Naegleria Fowleri is an amoeba that lives naturally in freshwater including lakes, rivers, ponds, and hot springs and recently found in neti-pots without distilled or previously boiled water. It thrives, multiplies and feeds on bacteria and becomes a life-threatening risk when the water temperature is warm, near 80 degrees and warmer. This amoeba is dangerous if it enters the body through the nose which can occur during water activities such as swimming, diving, jumping, skiing, wakeboarding, being submerged, splashing around, and nasal rinsing.
The amoeba Naegleria Fowleri causes the brain infection Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis. Initial symptoms resemble the flu or meningitis and show 1-14 days after contact, but then life is lost just 3-5 days after initial symptoms.
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