Respectfully begging to clear my doubts and help. I have asked several times, consulted doctors also, and tell myself that n fowleri infection is very rare but still every time I wash my face, hair or take a bath, I worry. Taking help from psychiatric will not help. Today while washing my face, some drops of water splashed on my nose. Now as I breathed in normally, I felt water in inner part of my nose so I panicked. Can getting a drop/few drops of water being splashed in nose or breathed in during washing hair cause n fowleri or brain eating amoeba infection or it can only happen if deliberately I sniff up the water aggressively (which I don't ever)? I don't swim or use neti pots. But we use underground water, drawn using jet pump stored in plastic water tank which is seldom cleaned as placed on terrace. So water is not chlorinated. I take azithromycin when such incidents occur but I read it has dangerous side effects. Can taking azithromycin prevent infection?
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You must use appropriate domestic water purifier apart from insisting on cleaning/ chlorinating over head water tank. You should not consume contaminated water and think of taking antibiotics which, as you say ,have adverse side effects.
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1.no alcohol 3. No smoking/ tobacco/drugs/ avoid pollution 4. Diet - no ghee/ butter, have mix of vegetable oils - mustard, til, ground nut, olive oil, have more green vegetables and fruits, have whole grain atta, no fried. Fast. Spicy / processed/ junk food. Less sugar, potato, rice. Less salt. 5. 30 mts brisk walk daily 6. Deep breathing exercise for 10 mts daily 7. Meditation daily for 10 mts. 6-8 hrs of sleep at night 8. Expose your body to sun for 15-20 mts daily after some oil massage to get vit d. 9. Take more water 10 maintain oral hygiene medicine can not be advised for open question ,for medicine and further advise contact on private consults good luck.
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