This morning, while swimming at a gym I occasionally visit, the gym staff put up the yellow "do not enter" (police-like) tape and then asked me to leave the pool saying there was a problem with the chlorine. This is the second time in less than a week that the pool was closed down.
A woman in the locker room told me that the three women, who are the most frequent swimmers in the morning, have all come down with bladder infections. They all believe it is from the pool. Does anyone know if this is actually possible? Can you catch something like a bladder infection from a pool? :confused:
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My mother is a nurse, and she tells me that "very highly unlikely" that you can contract a bladder infection from a chlorinated pool.
Also, from what I know from high school chemisty (only been a couple years, I'm not that rusty) Chlorine is used primarily as a water sanitizer, mostly because of its ability to kill single celled algae and bacteria by oxidation, a unique property of the chlorine which, in regulated doses, will not harm human skin or organs.
So to answer your question, I'd have to say"probably not."
:)
My mother is a nurse, and she tells me that "very highly unlikely" that you can contract a bladder infection from a chlorinated pool.
Also, from what I know from high school chemisty (only been a couple years, I'm not that rusty) Chlorine is used primarily as a water sanitizer, mostly because of its ability to kill single celled algae and bacteria by oxidation, a unique property of the chlorine which, in regulated doses, will not harm human skin or organs.
So to answer your question, I'd have to say"probably not."
:)
