What damage can be done to the lungs/respiratory system by high levels of Chlorine gas from swimming pools?
Parents
Former Member
Dedicated (and undedicated) swimmers, it will do no harm, and perhaps infinite good, to you, your loved ones (assuming they love you in return), and your lane mates, by:
Showering before entering the pool (reduces sweats and other bodily fluid and anything undesirable in a pool)
(How hard is it to do so? :cool:)
Getting out of the pool into the bathroom when you have nature's call
(Or you yourself would be in the closest vicinity of combined chlorine and organic compound = THMs = carcinogen :cool:)
(I believe there were discussions about this here in the past. Just search for chlorine and cancer.)
The other day I swam in a heavily chlorinated pool, it burned my nose, and another swimmer said it burned her eyes. My goggles would get a thick layer of white build-up around the frames after swimming in that pool for just a few days, but it gets nothing after more than a year of swimming in another pool. I wonder if those white stuffs could penetrate my skin, like salt and sugar? :rolleyes:
Dedicated (and undedicated) swimmers, it will do no harm, and perhaps infinite good, to you, your loved ones (assuming they love you in return), and your lane mates, by:
Showering before entering the pool (reduces sweats and other bodily fluid and anything undesirable in a pool)
(How hard is it to do so? :cool:)
Getting out of the pool into the bathroom when you have nature's call
(Or you yourself would be in the closest vicinity of combined chlorine and organic compound = THMs = carcinogen :cool:)
(I believe there were discussions about this here in the past. Just search for chlorine and cancer.)
The other day I swam in a heavily chlorinated pool, it burned my nose, and another swimmer said it burned her eyes. My goggles would get a thick layer of white build-up around the frames after swimming in that pool for just a few days, but it gets nothing after more than a year of swimming in another pool. I wonder if those white stuffs could penetrate my skin, like salt and sugar? :rolleyes:
