March 12 -- Approximately 36 million people in the United States wear contact lenses. Of these, more than 25,000 develop contact lens-related corneal infections each year. Such infections can lead to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — You may have seen a shocking post making the rounds on social media. Rachel Prochnow is an influencer based in Austin. She posted a photo of herself with a very nasty-looking infection ...

The CDC recommends people use distilled water instead of tap water, which is not sterile, for nasal irrigation practices Getty The CDC says that neti pots may be a transmission route for the invasive ...

Folks with sinus issues often turn to neti pots or "nasal rinsing" to help clear their clogged passages. Unfortunately, too many don't follow standard advice to avoid using tap water, and that's ...

Federal health officials have linked neti pots and other nasal-rinsing devices to another potentially dangerous amoeba. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday published a ...

Parasites burrowed into a Texas woman’s eye, causing her to go blind — and it’s because she went swimming in contact lenses. Brooklyn McCasland, 23, visited Alabama with friends in August when she ...

Tiffani Zeleny wore her contacts while inner tubing on a lake earlier this summer and now is plagued with an amoeba in her eye. The same kind of microorganism killed a young boy in Nebraska last month ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A new study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns of the potential consequence of using a nasal rinse without sterile water. Nasal rinsing or sinus ...