Woman dies after using non-boiled motorhome tap water for nasal flush: case report
The patient died of a brain amoeba infection 12 days after rinsing her sinuses.
A woman has died of a brain infection after performing nasal irrigation using water taken directly from her motorhome’s tap, US investigators report.
The 71-year-old woman developed severe neurological symptoms — including fever, headache, altered mental status and seizures — four days after using a sinus flush squirt bottle.
