How woman's water bottle landed her in the ER

Kae, a 19-year-old college student hailing from Ans, Georgia is recounting a cautionary tale following an illness caused by improper cleaning of her mold-infested reusable Owala water bottle.

Kae, kwn as 'Kaebrie' on social media, shared a video recounting her experience which has garnered over 3.3 million views within five days since its posting on TikTok.

She clarified that her illness might be attributed to her forgetting to remove silicone stopper from her bottle.

“Hey, this is a PSA to anyone who owns an Owala,” she said in video. “I got sick in August… I h a cold that, mir, you kw? Lasted a week and n didn’t go away. Went to urgent care: bronchitis,” she ded.

“Of course, y give me an inhaler and n some pills and I, of course, break out in hives as a result of pills,” she explained.

She even ded that " bronchitis takes longer than it should to go away," She finally got better after three weeks but n again she was  greeted with a sinus infection.

After revisiting urgent care and receiving antibiotics, she mentioned experiencing about a week and a half of being free from illness before falling sick again.

She mentioned enduring a prolonged cold that lasted for weeks, eventually culminating in " most severe sore throat of my life."

On her fourth visit to urgent care within a single school semester, she recounted that doctor examined her throat and remarked, “Oh, my goodness. It’s a really angry throat are you in pain?”

Prescribed antibiotics once more, she resolved to clean her water bottle, leing to a startling revelation. “This is where it goes downhill,” she explained.

“First of all, I kw I don’t clean it as much as I should. one does. I kw it’s full of bacteria,” she continued.

After cleaning bottle and researching how to properly clean lid on Google for guidance, she stumbled upon online forums like Reddit, where people mentioned that silicone piece of her water bottle needed to be removed.

Kae expressed regret, stating, “I didn’t kw it came out."

Upon finally removing it, she discovered that stopper was covered in mold that h penetrated silicone.

Afterward, she ordered a replacement on Amazon and w her bottle is in pristine condition.

“Once I cleaned it … got better,” she said.

“Haven’t gotten sick since… I h mold poisoning from my water bottle”, she ded.