Excessive Chlorine in Swimming Pool Trigger Asthma

One study found a surprising fact that, swimming in the pool that contains too much chlorine can lead to allergies and childhood asthma.

Chlorine is a disinfectant that is actually good and pretty safe to use in the pool, especially if used correctly. But if the chlorine dose is too high, can cause irritation of the organ swimmers who hold a direct contact with water. Irritation is proven to damage the respiratory tract, especially in children.

For children who are sensitive, given the dip in the pool chlorine was made possible respiratory allergies and asthma. Risk adolescents who have a risk sensitive 3.3 to 6.6 times higher when swimming in pools chlorinated and allergic rhinitis were given increases to 2.2 to 3.5 times if the swim more than 1,000 hours in a chlorinated pool.

Children who swim in chlorinated pools for 100-500 hours of his life was 6 percent of those suffering from asthma, while the dip is less than 100 hours of the possibility that asthma is 1.8 percent lower. This means the number of children developing asthma increased with increasing the number of hours of swimming. For pool sanitation does not affect the risk of allergy and asthma.

Researchers believe that the cause is the chlorine which can be dangerous in the water or flying through the air at the surface of the pond, causing changes in the respiratory tract. For those with sensitive skin are also very susceptible to allergies due to direct contact with the chlorine in the pool.

For those of you who have a swimming pool, you should consider it right to use chlorine. But if forced to use it, you should seek the correct information about the exposure limits in the use of chlorine, is intended to be free from the possibility of your family have asthma, or families who have asthmatic is not getting worse.

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