Posted on 05/22/2009 10:29:40 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
(CNN) -- As the summer swim season starts Memorial Day weekend, water quality and health experts have a message for swimmers: Please don't pee in the pool.
Although urine in the water probably will not cause swimmers to go to the emergency room, it causes "more of a respiratory, ocular irritation: the red puffy eyes or a cough, an itchy throat," said Michele Hlavsa, an epidemiologist in the division of parasitic diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."A big health message is not to urinate or pee in the water."
And it happens far more frequently than water-lovers would like to think.
In a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted in April and May, 17 percent admitted relieving themselves in a swimming pool. Even the Olympics' most decorated swimmer, Michael Phelps, confessed to urinating in the water to TV host Jimmy Kimmel. In a 2008 interview, Kimmel asked the 14-gold medal winner, "You pee in the pool, true?"
"Yeah," Phelps replied.
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We have a pool in our backyard and I used to use those pills, but eventually stopped buying them.
Just couldn't stand the taste any more.
Regards,
Never seen so many custom inner-tube rigs, modified to carry a beer cooler and an umbrella, as on the Comal.
All the acohol in the beer drunk will take care of most of the ick, that or drink enough beer and you won't care about the pee.
“It’s all pipes!”
Avoid swimming near the sewage discharge pipes from towns along the river. Other than that, I don't think your friends peeing in the river will make much of a difference when thousands of people upstream have already pee'd and crapped in it, flushed their old meds, drain cleaners, barf, and changed the oil from their cars over the storm sewers, all of which made it into the river at some point upstream.
I won’t even get in the water if I see any kids I know are in diapers. YUCK! That is what the kiddie pool is for to keep them out of the water in the pool.
Hey, that was my proudest moment...
For some reason this article brings to mind a quote from the movie Dodgeball, LOL.
'We don't swim in your toilet so don't pee in our pool.'
Excellent!
Urine is usually sterile. In fact, as just about any survivalist can tell you, it’s perfectly good for cleaning wounds, maybe even safer than tap water! See:
http://survive.urbanbushpeople.org/medical/WOUND_CLEANING_REVIEW.rtf
I miss that place. I think most of the time I was the only sober one on the whole river!
“Don’t wipe your eyes with used toilet tissue?”
Wow, I wish somebody had told me that earlier. No wonder I had such a crappy outlook on life.
Okay, well, knock it off! ;-)
Oh I think you’re seeing things clearly enough.
I’ve never knowingly peed in a pool in my entire life, whether 10, or 5 years old.
Then, brother, you missed out on one of the most sublime sensations in life.
You remember everything you did at the age of 5 and 6, OK.
I think it produces chloride gas. Chloride gas smells like chlorine up close. A pool with the right amount of chlorine in it will not smell of chlorine. A pool that smells like chlorine has had the ammonia from urine mixed with the chlorine to produce chloride gas. I think I'm right although I may be wrong.
Piscine is french for pool. It is pronounced peace-een
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