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CDC: Red eyes while swimming caused by urine, not chlorine
wtae.com ^ | Jun 19, 2015 | wtae.com

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dontpeeinthepool; pool; redeyes; urine
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1 posted on 06/23/2015 9:25:51 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
Really?
Why don't you put some chlorine in your eyes and see if they don't get red ?
2 posted on 06/23/2015 9:27:28 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

bump


3 posted on 06/23/2015 9:28:50 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Dallas59

So all those years I was the only one swimming in my pool someone was sneaking in and urinating in it?


4 posted on 06/23/2015 9:30:47 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Dallas59

How nice to know.


5 posted on 06/23/2015 9:31:41 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Dallas59

Good.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 9:34:11 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: Dallas59
 
 
Huh? Somebody is using one of those big Chlorox handiwipes and it's burning my eyes from 2 chairs over. No water or pee pee involved.
 
 

7 posted on 06/23/2015 9:38:18 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Dallas59
CDC: Red eyes while swimming caused by urine, not chlorine

And of course the salt in the ocean doesn't cause your eyes to redden, it's the whale piss that does it.

8 posted on 06/23/2015 9:38:29 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Dallas59

Chlorine binds with ammonia and forms chloramines.

This has been well-known since forever. It is a basic of pool care and aquarium keeping.


9 posted on 06/23/2015 9:39:36 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ JR.R. Tolkien)
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To: Dallas59

Stupidest thing ever....


10 posted on 06/23/2015 9:40:49 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Rebelbase
So all those years I was the only one swimming in my pool someone was sneaking in and urinating in it?

That was me. I confess. Because of the drought we stopped peeing in the toilet. Your pool seemed a good alternative. Sorry.

11 posted on 06/23/2015 9:44:15 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: mountainbunny
Chlorine binds with ammonia and forms chloramines.

This has been well-known since forever. It is a basic of pool care and aquarium keeping.


Yeah. I'm really comforted that the CDC is on top of this. Maybe when they are finished with this profound discovery they can move on and explain why Scarlett Fever is on the rise again.
12 posted on 06/23/2015 9:45:16 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: Dallas59

So in other words, it’s the chlorine burning your eyes.


13 posted on 06/23/2015 9:45:54 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: PA Engineer

The North vs the South, is usually the problem.


14 posted on 06/23/2015 9:48:25 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: Dallas59

Chlorine is quite capable all by its lonesome of making your eyes red. Ultraviolet radiation is also able to turn your eyes red. If the pool is properly treated and buffered, and you limit your exposure to the Sun, you don’t get red eyes (even if there is pee).

This is “theoretically, maybe, possibly” being turned in to an ignorant, alarmist assertion by “government scientists”, whom we all know are from the bottom half of the class. They are paid to come up with important seeming stuff to justify the budgets, taxes, and mandates.


15 posted on 06/23/2015 9:48:32 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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It’s because of the dye that they put in there to indicate if somone in the pool has peed... < /s >


16 posted on 06/23/2015 9:49:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: PA Engineer
they can move on and explain why Scarlett Fever is on the rise again

Scarlett Johansson makes me febrile . . .

17 posted on 06/23/2015 9:58:55 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Yosemitest
                      MY EYES!

    THE GOOGLES DO NOTHING!

18 posted on 06/23/2015 9:59:16 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Dallas59


19 posted on 06/23/2015 10:02:59 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: Dallas59

But the important thing here is.....

Did Dr. Michael J. Beach VOTE for Obama?..


20 posted on 06/23/2015 10:03:05 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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