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Indoor Swimming Pool. Respiratory risks of indoor swimming pools can include coughing, wheezing, aggravated asthma, [1] and airway hyper-responsiveness (spasms of the bronchial tubes in the lungs causing coughing and chest tightness). The chemicals used for pool water disinfection can react with organic compounds in the water to create ...
While chlorine kills most bacteria such as E. Coli in less than a minute, it takes at least 16 minutes to kill Hepatitis A, and the Cryptosporidium parasite can last in the swimming pool for over ...
Chlorine gas poisoning is an illness resulting from the effects of exposure to chlorine beyond the threshold limit value.Acute chlorine gas poisoning primarily affects the respiratory system, causing difficulty breathing, cough, irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, and sometimes skin irritation.
Swimming pool contaminants are introduced from environmental sources and swimmers. Affecting primarily outdoor swimming pools, environmental contaminants include windblown dirt and debris, incoming water from unsanitary sources, rain containing microscopic algae spores and droppings from birds possibly harboring disease-causing pathogens. [4]
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In addition, trichloramine has been detected in the air above swimming pools, [6] and it is suspected in the increased asthma observed in elite swimmers. Trichloramine is formed by the reaction of urea (from urine and sweat) with chlorine and gives the indoor swimming pool its distinctive odor.
Rumours of the origin of urine indicator-dye go back at least as far as 1958, [1] and the story is commonly told to children by parents who do not want them to urinate in the pool. [3] A 1985 biography of Orson Welles describes him using such a dye as part of a prank in 1937.