Does swimming effect your sense of smell?
My wife and I recently had a lovely dinner with a person very knowledgable about wines. We are both wine lovers and appreciated his wonderful "wine lesson". However, when he got into the description of the wines in terms of berrys and oak and leather etc I had to stop him and say that I can sometimes detect a raisin taste or maybe even a blackberry taste but I have never been able to get any of those other subtle tastes that the wine experts use to describe wines.
So he asked me if I had sinus problems or something else that might effect my sense of smell. Well, the only thing I could think of was chlorine. Does anyone have any thoughts or information on wether 30 plus years of swimming and breathing that wonderful chlorine smell could have ruined or at least altered my sense of smell? If so I may go to exclusively drinking 2 Buck Chuck!!!
Glenn:)
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Try this link:
forums.usms.org/.../t-6818.html
When I googled "anosmia + chlorine" I found this:
journals.cambridge.org/.../displayAbstract;jsessionid=F1C7AA11D50CAC5511B77F3DB20C3A3D.tomcat1
Quote:
Chlorine gas is known to be a potent irritant to the eyes, nose, throat and lungs with severe exposure resulting in pulmonary oedema and even death. There have been no case reports, however, of chlorine inducing anosmia. We present such a case, along with a review of the literature on the toxicology of chlorine and its effect on the nose.
and there's this article:
www.robertabelllaw.com/.../Differential_Diagnosis_Evidence___Advocate_Article.pdf
Apparently there is some relation between anosmia and chlorine but this relation is rather obscure.
Do notice that the guy from the second article inhaled A LOT of chlorine so his case of intoxication is a bit different than ours.
There was very little info concerning this matter on the web, so either this isn't a common situation or the relation is not yet proven (which is a good sign either way)
Try this link:
forums.usms.org/.../t-6818.html
When I googled "anosmia + chlorine" I found this:
journals.cambridge.org/.../displayAbstract;jsessionid=F1C7AA11D50CAC5511B77F3DB20C3A3D.tomcat1
Quote:
Chlorine gas is known to be a potent irritant to the eyes, nose, throat and lungs with severe exposure resulting in pulmonary oedema and even death. There have been no case reports, however, of chlorine inducing anosmia. We present such a case, along with a review of the literature on the toxicology of chlorine and its effect on the nose.
and there's this article:
www.robertabelllaw.com/.../Differential_Diagnosis_Evidence___Advocate_Article.pdf
Apparently there is some relation between anosmia and chlorine but this relation is rather obscure.
Do notice that the guy from the second article inhaled A LOT of chlorine so his case of intoxication is a bit different than ours.
There was very little info concerning this matter on the web, so either this isn't a common situation or the relation is not yet proven (which is a good sign either way)
