Can anyone shed further light on what is causing rashes and asmatic reactions for some swimmers on our USMS team? There have been several emails, but the following from a team mate is the most descriptive:
after Sunday’s swim, I had a skin rash (ewww) where my suit straps were touching my body. I also had trouble breathing during and after practice. I have noticed that since around Thanksgiving, after I swim I have trouble breathing and my chest hurts. At first, I thought I might be sick, but it kept coming and going, with the consistency of when I swam. I called .... to ask if something had changed, especially on Sunday. He gave me a lot of good information on water, chlorine and chloramines gases. Since the Thanksgiving time frame they have had to increase the chlorine in the pool because of all the extra swimmers. They’ve been battling the gases that come from the chlorine and sit on the top of the water.
Is this to be expected? Or is it not acceptable? :cane:
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I was going to say it was chlorine related from just the topic, but after reading your post, yeah...bingo.
When you say "he" gave good information regarding water, chlorine, and the gasses...who is "he" ? A pool employee?
I used to work as a lifeguard on Ft. Knox military base and I've only seen that happen once, and thats when one of the maintenance guys added way too much chlorine. You could smell it in the air. We had to crank all of the windows, turn on all the fans, and close the pool until the numbers got back to normal.
I don't think that any pool, regardless of how many "extra swimmers" they have should need to use enough chlorine to create latent gasses in the environment.
It's like one of those LOLCats... "Pool Maintenance.... ur doin it wrong."
Showering before getting into the pool is important. Sweat and bacteria combined with chlorine can form chloramines. That's what makes people cough and gag.
Does your pool have that policy?
The sweaty treadmill user who jumps in the pool before showering off is one of the primary culprits.
Add a few more people into the mix, and the chloramine level can become unbearable.
www.cdc.gov/.../irritants.htm
Showering before getting into the pool is important. Sweat and bacteria combined with chlorine can form chloramines. That's what makes people cough and gag.
Does your pool have that policy?
The sweaty treadmill user who jumps in the pool before showering off is one of the primary culprits.
Add a few more people into the mix, and the chloramine level can become unbearable.
www.cdc.gov/.../irritants.htm
gag, now i know why i can't breath in the pool. i used to swim at a Y where some guy got in with the most obnoxious cologne it was putrid.
i have belonged to pool that required showering before entering.
it is custom in the places i swam in europe.
i noticed when the kids are all in the pool, it has a salty taste after. ick
I got itchy rashes on my whole front neck area since almost 4 weeks ago and still have them. I have absolutely no other suspect than the pool as the cause, but our pool supposedly uses ozone as disinfectant (little odor). I have swum there for five months now and this is the first time I got this skin problem (after hearing all the stories about pool rash), and it's only on the neck. What explanation can be made of it? :confused:
P.S. I used to swim in an over chlorinated pool for much longer time and never got such rashes.:rolleyes:
