To pee in the pool is bad for your health better than I expected

ByBasheer Tome

Even in a pool that looks beautiful at first glance, in reality the water"Piss" has been included for a long timeIt is clear that it is. Some people do not hesitate to pee in the pool, "Because disinfectants make it beautiful", but in reality it is clear from the scientific perspective that the act is dangerous It is.

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The Olympic swimmer gold medalist Michael Phelps said, "I think everyone is thrashing in the pool," the fact that urinating in the pool is not unusual may be unusual. Many of the reasons vary from things that "there is nothing big in places people have done because there is so much water there," and "that the chlorine contained in the water neutralizes" Mr. Ernesto Blackley, researcher of environmental engineering at Purdue University, USA, said, "Although it is not a serious problem if it is about one in a pool," it is thought to be "in the pool We are confirming the evidence that there is a possibility that the chemical substance will be adversely affected by enrichment, "he says of the danger of unknown" in-pool pee ".

Human urine contains so many chemical substances. Most of them react as a disinfectant in response to chlorine mixed in water, but uric acid and some amino acids react with chlorine,Nitrogen trichloride(Trichloroamine) andCyanogen chlorideIt will change to what will affect the health of the human body.


According to Mr. Blacklee, these substances decompose relatively quickly, so it is not always dangerous, but due to the overlap of various factors such as the state of water, the number of people using the pool, the temperature, etc. It is considered that the concentration becomes high state. Nitrogen trichloride has the potential to exacerbate the condition of people with symptoms of asthma, and may irritate the skin and eyeballs. Also, cyanogen chloride has an effect on the ability of human body to consume oxygen, and if it is taken into the body by respiration, there is a possibility that it may also have a bad influence.

Mr. Blacklee says that such problems do not occur in most pools, but in particular it is predicting that problems will occur in crowded pools.

So then, maybe the idea of ​​"should we add more chlorine?" May come up, but as stated earlier, this is going to be counterproductive. In the first place, chlorine reacts with some components of pee and changes into an aggressive substance, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is rather an act of increasing the risk.

Mr. Blacky's approach to dealing with it is the importance of spreading the concept of urinating in the pool "as dangerous as walking cigarettes". The cigarette in the town which was not regarded as much problem in the past has now been recognized as "an act of adversely affecting other people" by the idea of ​​passive smoking, and now smokers tend to have a narrow feeling towards themselves . The idea that the same way of thinking is applied to the act of urination in the pool, changing the consciousness of the people, "the pee in the pool is an act of giving bad influence to himself and to the surrounding people" It is said to infiltrate.

ByMatt Deavenport