Tinkling in the pool causes disgust and discomfort
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/22/pools.urinate.hygiene/index.html
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.
"Which nationality pees in the pool the most?" Kimmel asked.
"Probably Americans," Phelps said.
"Oh, so we're number one in that too," Kimmel quipped.
Sometimes, an indoor swimming pool will emit a strong chemical smell. The swimmers have coughs or red, stinging eyes after emerging from the pool. Usually those symptoms get dismissed as the effects of chlorine, but their causes are something more organic.
When swimmers sweat or urinate in the pool water, the bodily fluids combine with the chlorine. It creates chloramines, which causes the strange odor and the eye and respiratory irritations for swimmers, according to the CDC.
No matter how discreet the act may be, "you're contaminating the pool. Let's face it," said Linda Golodner, the vice chairwoman of the Water Quality and Health Council.
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Who in there right mind would get out of the pool to pee. I'll swim for hours and won't see one of my friends get out. Just admit it. We all do it.
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@AllergyNotes on twitter says "CNN: Survey showed 1 in 5 adults admitted urinating in public pools"
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@nrgordon on twitter says "Summer is here: Please don't pee in the pool"
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joshuaheller
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Haha I love this is the third most popular story on CNN.
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singrrr
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When I worked at a summer camp we used to tell the kids that if the urinated in the pool the water around them would turn purple because of a "special chemical" we put in the pool. haha I wonder if it stopped any of them lol
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