So all those years I was the only one swimming in my pool someone was sneaking in and urinating in it?
How nice to know.
Good.
And of course the salt in the ocean doesn't cause your eyes to redden, it's the whale piss that does it.
Chlorine binds with ammonia and forms chloramines.
This has been well-known since forever. It is a basic of pool care and aquarium keeping.
Stupidest thing ever....
So in other words, it’s the chlorine burning your eyes.
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.
It’s because of the dye that they put in there to indicate if somone in the pool has peed... < /s >
But the important thing here is.....
Did Dr. Michael J. Beach VOTE for Obama?..
Well, there has to be some amusing yet appropos clip from South Park we can get off YouTube to accent this thread. ;-)
Is there ANYTHING theCDC says that is believable?
"Ahh, Dude, Weak!"
Gee. During the Olympics, Bob Costas must have been indulging in some (wait for it..) ‘WATER SPORTS’ himself when he had that horrible case of ‘red eye’.
Another reason not to believe anything the CDC tells us.
Pee? Sweat? Really?!?
Dr. Beach is wrong to a large degree. In a large municipal pool, w/hundreds in and out, urine (and sweat similar compositions) WILL cause chloramines (spent chlorine). But do the math...a few ounces of urine per swimmer in a municipal size pool (80 to 100k gallons plus) is NOT the issue. The same with a private, back yard pool (avg inground 20k of water)...does anyone really believe that the ounces urine produced by a small child, dissipated in that volume of water can cause an issue?
The “red eye” issue comes from acidic water. Low ph and low alkalinity—bring the water to neutral (ph of 7.2 to 7.6 and alkalinity of 100 to 150 ppm) and your eyes will be fine.
Using tri-chlor tabs, coupled w/acidic rain (coupled w/minuscule amts of urine and sweat) DROP ph and alkilinity.
This report is total BS! I’m a chemist, people who would believe this are just followers not thinking or people with knowledge. Makes a nice headline, but it is a lie. (Guess we like lies more than truth these days).