Swimming Pool Supplies

I read an interesting article today that suggested there is a connection between children’s use of swimming pools and asthma. You can read the full article here. It’s dated July 2006 and I couldn’t find any follow ups but I thought it was intersting none the less.

A study, by the Catholic University of Louvain, in Belgium, found that the rates of asthma in children rose by about 2 to 3% for every indoor swimming pool per 100,000 people and concluded that this was due to increased exposure to chlorine which is used to clean the pools.

 

They’d produced evidence a few years earlier that found that chlorine in swimming pools can react with urine and sweat resulting in the creation of harmful fumes. Children who regularly went swimming in indoor pools accumulated proteins known, in large quantities, to damage the cells of the lungs.

In the more recent study which was conducted across 21 countries in Europe they found that wheezing, asthma, hay fever and other reactions were increased.

The recommendations are to ensure that pools are properly ventilated and that chlorine levels are kept to the minimum level necessary to ensure clean, safe water. Something bear in mind with your own swimming pool.