Here’s an idea: don’t put things up your damn nose. 🤦🏼♂️
You don’t have to use a neti pot or anything (and if you did you’d hopefully know to use distilled water), but do you NEVER get water up your nose in the shower? Bath? Do you want brain eating bacteria on your supposedly washed hands? On the counter you just wiped down? Running through your dishwasher? Coming out your hose and your sprinklers? The ice cubes in your fridge? Are you willing to bet your BRAIN on never having an accident? But I’m sure it’s all fine, as long as I keep it out of my nose. Wtf is wrong with some people… We just had a pandemic but basic hygiene is replaced with ignorance.
Here’s an idea: Just stop breathing and none of that will happen. 🤦♂️
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One PPM of chlorine is enough to kill most amoeba in about 10 mins.
If amoeba can survive in tap water where you are at, you probably shouldn’t drink the water without filtering and boiling it first anyway.
Also, get some multi-chemical water test strips as well. While those don’t tell the full story, they can be useful if deciding to have your water tested at a lab. (Test strips a decent enough at detecting chlorine, some metals, salts, etc. I don’t know if they exist, but detection of disolved gasses, like natural gas, would be a huge plus if you live in an area that has a lot of oil drilling.)
Everyone should spend at least a few bucks to know what they will be drinking at home on a regular basis, IMHO.
While those don’t tell the full story, they can be useful if deciding to have your water tested at a lab.
Everyone should spend at least a few bucks to know what they will be drinking at home on a regular basis, IMHO.
Lab testing is going to be a waste of money for most people not using well water, unless you have a strong reason to suspect something is up aside from test-strip reaults. Especially seeing as how the water chemistry is going to change at least twice per year when the water provider switches from chlorine to the chloramines and vice-versa. And pretty much all providers will give you a report of exactly what’s in the water on a monthly basis if you ask for it.
Lab results would be useful if you’re serious about homebrewing beer and don’t want to build up the water profile from scratch or really into baking, though. Just don’t do it in the early Spring/Fall, because that’s when the treatment chemicals switch and the results aren’t going to be representative of what the water is really like for that time of the year.
My stomach is super picky and I drink a ton of water. It doesn’t take much to mess me up.
Even perfectly clean water will trigger my acid reflux, but that is more of a mechanical issue with my stomach, from what I understand. The bigger moral of the story here is not to be a raging alcoholic for many consecutive years…
I even get monthly water reports automatically due to the number of lawsuits my town has had because of water quality. Needless to say, my trust level is not set at maximum even for third-party reports paid for by the city.
You ain’t wrong, but the redundancy makes me feel better.
IMHO, it shouldn’t need to be. With test strips, my only intent is to see if there is something drastically off kilter. pH tests are likely the most reliable of any of them. If tap water pH is wildly off, there is likely something else wrong.
Excluding some cases, just a taste of the tap water should tell you volumes more than what a test strip might.
But it’s good enough for regular people. Very accurate test equipment costs tens of thousands of dollars and you have to recalibrate it every few months using very expensive consumables.
Hah. I’ve been swimming in freshwater lakes, rivers, and reservoirs for about 65 years. Ain’t nothin’ takin’ me down.
Also a former water treatment plant operator, so I should probably not be quite so complacent. :)
Some places are worse than others, from what I understand. Also, I haven’t had an issue with my brain being eaten after years of swimming in freshwater sources.
The above paper was about a place in Pakistan, so who knows what their water is like…
Some streams in some U.S. national parks advise against submerging your head in the water for the risk of getting brain eating amoebas.
I’m more concerned about e coli levels than amoeba. But Lord only knows what gets into the South Saskatchewan River system and what grows vigorously once the water slows down in Lake Diefenbaker.
At least I’ve stopped swimming in the runoff sloughs in cattle pastures. (Kids are all kinds of stupid!)
PPM is an American way of saying mg/L because they’re all allergic to SI units.
Do what now? I mean, don’t use a dishcloth to wipe your retinas either.
Some people pour water up their nose. I saw someone doing it in the military. Said it felt great. I wasn’t convinced.
I am genetically blessed with a chronic form of histamine allergies that keep my sinuses blocked. On bad days, I have to heat water, then let it cool, and then add a specific salt then use a medical pump to pump them all the way through my nostrils until they reach the back of my throat to make sure the canals are open. Doctor’s orders and all. I assure you, we are not doing this for fun.
What hell hole country shit is this? Holy fuck. Is the municipal water really that bad in your part of the world?
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
I couldn’t even imagine this. I consume tap water daily. And to be honest also never heard such storys before this.
“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.
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.
Why yes, I also have seen that episode of House M.D.
