Does the nose or ear anatomy make this possible?
Hello, im sorry if this isn’t my subreddit to post this in, but i thought this might be useful.
I may have a perforated eardrum, and was swimming in a lake possible to have brain eating amoeba and water alot of got inside my ear on August 14th.
My nose is not as issue, as i took extra care and wore nose clips and everything.
I am flying very soon and having severe panic that the cabin pressure will push brain-eating amoeba liquid from my ear deep enough to reach nerves. For instance, when your ear pops or other pressure changes.
I don’t know whether that’s possible or whether it will drain into my nose (which ive read is possible) , where i can then get an infection via the normal route of an N.Fowleri infection as it touches the back of my nose where infection can occur.
I’m particularly worried it will drain into a region of the nose and i will then sniff, or somehow suck it up to the required region for infection. Or somehow, \*\*the cabin pressure changes during the flight will cause the amoeba drained into my lower nose from ear, to suck up to the olfactory area required for infection.\*\*
After finding out the lake has a very high chance of the amoeba, and discovering how fatal it is i am incredibly stressed.
Is this just my health anxiety? i cant cancel the flight and really need to get on it.
I will be flying 5 days after the water got into my ear, if that changes anything.
I don’t know anything about nose anatomy to answer this myself.