Re: Outdoor pools boost child's asthma risk: study

[Guest guest]

All 7 of my grandkids swim in outdoor pools.

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> Outdoor pools boost child's asthma risk: study -

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> Swimming in outdoor chlorinated pools appears to increase the odds a

> child will develop asthma, Belgian researchers said on Thursday.

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> Other studies have linked chlorine and asthma but the new findings

> published in the European Respiratory Journal cast doubt on the idea

> outdoor pools are safer than indoor ones where chlorine vapors

> remains trapped inside an enclosed space.

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> " The more you swim, the higher the risk, " said Alfred Bernard, a

> toxicologist at Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, who led

> the study. " What is new in this study is that we looked at outdoor

> pools for the first time. "

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> http://tinyurl.com/3wmf8p

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> Alana

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[Guest guest]

You know, just being born increases ones risk for asthma...

Sorry to be cynical today...Im miserable. The article is interesting though...I wonder if they will continue to say that swimming is one of the best forms of exercise in asthmatics.

Could it be that the outdoor pool draws the kids to be outside longer and therefore have a higher rate of exposure to possible environmental allergies? We had a pool when I was a kid and for a 4ft deep 21ft round pool we used 2 cups of chlorine a day at most. You never smelled chlorine at our house.

I never developed asthma until I was well into my teens and not swimming in the pool as often as in years past due to other obligations.

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