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."
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."
