Posted on 06/23/2015 9:25:51 PM PDT by Dallas59
Those red eyes you get from swimming aren't caused by chlorine, according to an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And the substances in the pool that do cause your bloodshot eyes will probably make you a little seasick.
“Chlorine binds with all the things it’s trying to kill from your bodies, and it forms these chemical irritants. That’s what’s stinging your eyes. It’s the chlorine binding to the urine and sweat,” says the appropriately named Dr. Michael J. Beach, associate director of the CDC's Healthy Water program.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtae.com ...
And who doesn’t like a Caddy Shack reference?
BUT...bigger question is WHY the CDC is chiming in (with a WRONG explanation) on such a non-issue? Like stated up thread, strep (and let’s add EV-68, along w/clusters of measles) are REAL health issues and not being spoken of (media wise)...yet this Beach guy gets air time for wrong pool chemistry.
Stir up the dumb masses with dis-info. Just wait for the 3 shark attacks which will be blown out of proportion soon.
What did this piece of crap science cost us?
We owned a hot tub, eyes got red if water got splashed in your face. Since both of us are Seniors we don’t have an issue with using our personal spa as a toilet.
The CDC is a prime example of why we need a separation of medicine and state. I’m surprised they didn’t blame global warming.
I’m sure someone is working on that angle as we post.
That’s what I told my parents was causing my red eyes during my mis-spent youth.
Yep. YOU. :O) - I use “food grade” hydrogen peroxide. Have had too many spills & accidents with pure chlorine bleach. - I do have to be careful when I mix my spray bottles of hydrogen peroxide & distilled water. It’s concentrated & I sloshed a little splat of the concentrate on my leg & it still isn’t healed up good. - The 3% drug store hydrogen peroxide doesn’t work for me; gives me mouth ulcers, the food grade doesn’t. (I guess I could use the drug store stuff to spray on counters; but not use it for a mouthwash.)
A new Conservative Republican administration needs to sweep out the idiots at the CDC who are much like the EPA, in that they are always spouting BS. ....Ben Carson might make a good head of the CDC or Surgeon General; or possibly Scty of Health and HS.
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