The last few days after swimming my nose often feels like it has allergic reaction from the swims. It's runny and sometimes triggers sneezes, feels just like pollen allergies. Today all day, and I thought please let it not be swine flu :eek:. By now I'm sure it's not swine flu and it's from the swims. Has anyone experienced the same? The pool uses ozone, and a little chlorine.
The pool I swim uses mainly ozone, plus some chlorine (as I believe all ozone disinfected pools still uses some chlorine), but the chlorine should be very small amount (no strong smell). Maybe even that is too much for me. I haven't heard ozone could cause allergy (anyone knows?).
Actually a strong smell indicates the lack of "free chlorine" in the water. A freshly shocked and chlorinated pool will have very little odor that most people commonly think is chlorine.
This article describes the chemistry of how pools lose their chlorine strength and begin to smell and give people allergy symptoms. It could be the pool needs to be "shocked".
www.poolspa.com/.../shocktrt.htm
The pool I swim uses mainly ozone, plus some chlorine (as I believe all ozone disinfected pools still uses some chlorine), but the chlorine should be very small amount (no strong smell). Maybe even that is too much for me. I haven't heard ozone could cause allergy (anyone knows?).
Actually a strong smell indicates the lack of "free chlorine" in the water. A freshly shocked and chlorinated pool will have very little odor that most people commonly think is chlorine.
This article describes the chemistry of how pools lose their chlorine strength and begin to smell and give people allergy symptoms. It could be the pool needs to be "shocked".
www.poolspa.com/.../shocktrt.htm
