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 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:
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:
