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Old 07-26-2012, 11:09 AM   #1
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I must live under a rock because it's the first I've heard of anything like this. How can the water temps be too warm and people get brain infections from some amoeba from swimming in these "too warm" waters? What are you supposed to do - take a thermometer with you when you go to a lake/ocean etc.?


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Old 07-26-2012, 11:15 AM   #2
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South Carolina boy killed by rare brain infection | Fox News

A lot they don't know about this little bug yet. But in warmer water, don't immerse the head. It enters through the sinus cavities. They think nose clips might help when swimming in warmer water but only because none of the people who died were wearing them.


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Eugh, bad luck to be sure.
Prayers for the family!!
Them brain infections should be against the law IMO.
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Yes, you read about these every so often, but you never expect it to happen to you...!! It's just not possible to prepare for every bad thing that's out there.


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My friend had a bad fall from a barn when he was young. For some reason that fall has caused his body to run a higher then normal temperature. So when it comes to things like hot tubs he cannot stay in long if he goes in at all. I always thought it was interesting.


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The variability among people is amazing. As a firefighter/EMT, I saw people die in wrecks that should have barely caused a scratch, and people live through horiffic injuries and walk out of the hospital.

You just never know.


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As pointed out in other threads about this little brain eater, it happens so proportionately seldom that panic or even urgency is not required. An awareness of the possibility and simple precautions should suffice. We started teaching awareness of this to the grandkids back when we first heard of it. I enjoy visiting back country hot springs so I heard about this several years ago.

I wonder how long it really has been around and the doctors chalked the occasional death up to some other cause.


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That is quite sad and I have heard the no swimming in warm waters deal before but never fully understood it until now. Isn't Sumter County the same place that the little girl went missing this week, kidnapped by her mother?


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I've heard that several people have died from the ameoba infections that had used the Neti pot for washing out the sinuses. The doctor I see tells me to use water that has been boiled or use water purchased that has been processed to eliminate bacteria and other nasty things. I don't like things that want to eat my brain including ameoba and people who spaz out on drugs.


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