The importance of keeping our airways moisturized and flushed.

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5. caution: make sure water from a neti pot is sterile

there have been rare but devastating incidences of "brain eating amoeba" infections
from contaminated neti use.

https://www.pharmacist.com/article/brain-eating-amoeba-death-highlights-importance-safe-neti-pot-use

t’s right out of a horror movie: a woman’s brain is devoured by amoeba over the course of a year, and by the time it’s discovered, it’s too late to save her. A surgeon who operated on her told the Seattle Times that “a section of her brain about the size of a golf ball was bloody mush.” And it’s all because she used tap water in the neti pot she used to rinse her sinuses.

Neti pots have become increasingly popular for fighting congestion and allergies and to prevent colds.