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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do saline rinses? Although that may push up any potential critters. 
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If it's a sterile saline rinse in a squirt bottle from the drug store then no.  If you buy distilled water from the grocery store, it should be 100% pure water with nothing else in it which is why all products that drain through the sinuses say to use distilled water.  If you use tap water, then yes you can get this from that.  Several people have died from using tap water in a neti pot.  
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/12/19/143960631/second-neti-pot-death-from-amoeba-prompts-tap-water-warning
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-dies-from-brain-eating-amoeba-after-using-neti-pot-tap-water-to-rinse-sinuses/

Unrelated note.  If you do get distilled water, feel free to pour some into a glass and drink it.  It's disgusting.  Pure water without minerals is disgusting.  When people say that water has no taste, they've never actually tasted distilled water which is pure H2O without any minerals dissolved into it.  It's fine to drink a little to see the taste but don't drink it regularly.  Pure water desperately wants to have chemicals bonded in it and will rip vitamins and minerals out of your cells which can lead to deficiencies.  Trying a little bit just to see the taste wouldn't be a big deal though.[/quote]

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