CDC: Red eyes while swimming caused by urine, not chlorine

wtae.com ^ | Jun 19, 2015 | wtae.com

[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.

[Yosemitest]

Really?
Why don't you put some chlorine in your eyes and see if they don't get red ?

[GeronL]

bump

[Rebelbase]

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

[Dogbert41]

How nice to know.

[RedHeeler]

Good.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

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.

 

 

[FreeReign]

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.

[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.

[Vendome]

Stupidest thing ever....

[P-Marlowe]

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.

[PA Engineer]

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.

[headstamp 2]

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

[RedHeeler]

The North vs the South, is usually the problem.

[Born to Conserve]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s because of the dye that they put in there to indicate if somone in the pool has peed... < /s >

[FoxInSocks]

they can move on and explain why Scarlett Fever is on the rise again

Scarlett Johansson makes me febrile . . .

[Rodamala]

                      MY EYES!

    THE GOOGLES DO NOTHING!

[Viking2002]

[hosepipe]

But the important thing here is.....

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