Blogpost #8 : Chlorine in swimming pools can cause asthma to swimmers

Every summer, my family would likely to go in a resort with many pools, unlike others who much prefer swimming in a beach. I feel good when I sink in a pool, specially it the water is cold. My friends and I sometimes go in a resort for us to enjoy ourselves swimming in a swimming pool. I noticed that most pools have different colors when it comes to water. I now recognized the coloring substance that they mix is the chlorine. 

                  

Chlorine is a substance or chemical that is said to clean water. However there is also an effect to our health that we do not know. According to the article entitled "Chlorinated Swimming Pools Can Cause Asthma In Swimmers" by Allan Finney in a site called "swimming.about.com" that chlorine in swimming pools can cause many different breathing problems such as asthma and many more. During the Olympic games held in Australia, it  is reported that more than one quarter of the American team suffered a degree of asthma.

Allan stated "The problem is not the chlorine but what chlorine turns into when combined into organics". Maybe chlorine does really helps in cleaning the water but when the chlorine is  mixed with any other substance it can be dangerous to our health . Some of us does not mind the chlorine at all but maybe some other time, they might be able to see the symptoms.

I have read an article entitled "Avoid swimming pools if you have allergies or asthma" by Joseph Mercola in a site called "mercola" that chlorine in a pool is very dangerous to our health because of the way our body absorbs chlorine and many chemicals mixed in the pool aside from chlorine. 

Joseph stated that "Most public pools are overloaded with chlorine, as the well-intentioned people who maintain public pools overly shock them with chlorine to make sure bacteria and other organisms get snuffed out quickly". Joseph is right, there are some people who over pour chlorine thinking that it will clean the pool faster. The more chlorine you put, the more lives of people you put on danger.