peeing in the pool a health and safety hazard

[3NUMBAS]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/peeing-pool-causes-surprising-health-hazard-125632317.html#Q7ZtTzb

Peeing in the pool not only has an ick factor, but also produces a surprising health hazard when urine combines with pool chemicals, a new study says.

The results show that uric acid, a compound in urine, combines with the chlorine used to disinfect pools to produce potentially hazardous compounds called "volatile disinfection byproducts."

One byproduct is cyanogen chloride, a compound that is known to be toxic to many human organs if it is inhaled. Another compound, trichloramine, has been linked with lung injuries from exposure to chlorine-based disinfectants.

Researchers knew that chlorine could react with urine, sweat and other organic matter to produce contaminants in swimming pools. But the new findings show definitively that uric acid is a precursor to cyanogen chloride and trichloramine, the researchers said. [7 Common Summer Health Concerns]

[bealus]

Still we had public/community swimming pools for more than 100 years and peeing into the pool water was as likely as nowadays. Average life expectancy depending on gender in Europe or US around 80 years. Another "shocking" report that can be relativated like many others like acidity destroying the forests by 2000 or the ozone layer completely vanished etc.

[donniereadit]

there's all kinds of stuff in public swimming pools besides pee...

vaginal fluids, penile secretions (small amounts of ejaculate), feces, puss/white blood cells from sores and other open wounds, farts (gas), hair gel, makeup, cologne, saliva...

[WitawatWatawit]

there's all kinds of stuff in public swimming pools besides pee...

vaginal fluids, penile secretions (small amounts of ejaculate), feces, puss/white blood cells from sores and other open wounds, farts (gas), hair gel, makeup, cologne, saliva...

You forgot "people". Red tubs of lard floating around like discarded whale blubber.

[Noi657]

there's all kinds of stuff in public swimming pools besides pee...

vaginal fluids, penile secretions (small amounts of ejaculate), feces, puss/white blood cells from sores and other open wounds, farts (gas), hair gel, makeup, cologne, saliva...

What a lovely thought!

[wooloomooloo]

I caught a used tampon between my fingers in a five star hotel's swimming pool when doing front crawl. Pee's the least of my worries.

[Rooo]

Not Thailand related.