Struggling with an upper respiratory issue, like a cold or seasonal allergies? Many people turn to neti pots for relief. A neti pot is a small container with a spout used for nasal irrigation. It's ...

Tap water is not sterile, and using it in home medical devices can result in serious and even deadly infections. But in a study published Wednesday in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, ...

Using tap water for neti pots and other nasal-rinsing devices was linked to a potentially dangerous amoeba in a new study published by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

FILE - Neti pots are seen, Jan. 30, 2008, in Lexington, Ky. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, published a report that for the first time connects ...

SEATTLE. (WTVD) -- A 69-year-old Seattle woman died from what doctors said they believe were rare brain-eating amoebas. The patient, who underwent brain surgery at Swedish Medical Center, had used tap ...

Federal health officials have linked neti pots and other nasal-rinsing devices to another potentially dangerous amoeba. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday published a ...

(CNN) — Tap water is not sterile, and using it in home medical devices can result in serious and even deadly infections. But in a study published Wednesday in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, ...

NEW YORK >> For years, scientists have known people who use neti pots can become infected with a brain-eating amoeba if they use the wrong kind of water. Researchers today linked a second kind of ...