Pool water .. Lung damage children

Pool water .. Lung damage children

Disinfected with chlorine is no less harmful than smoking .. Ozone and a proposed alternatives

Riyadh: d. Hassan Mohamed Sndakja

Keen to receive their children or daughters in swimming lessons during the very early stages of life, and in particular in the pools closed, inside the halls with poor ventilation systems, perhaps they should reconsider it again. As well as those who boast of possessing, in their homes or villas, an indoor swimming pool is closed, they also have to reconsider the whole thing again for their own safety and the safety of their children. And instead ensure that this on the establishment of such pools in the outdoor spaces, within the walls of the house. Or adopt systems to disinfect the pool water does not use chlorine. Or is the weakest of faith, as they say, attention to ventilate rooms and galleries house effectively get rid of the saturation of the domestic air vapor chlorine gas and its derivatives. And also that the process is sterilization with chlorine within necessary and by specialists away from situations saturation water chlorination, so that there are many medical studies that began in warning of the consequences of inhaling air, inside the house or in the halls closed, saturated بالأبخرة rising from the pool water sterile material Chlorine.

And most recently has been issued to researchers from Belgium in the first week of the month of June, within the threads of Pediatrics of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In their study, said researchers from the University of Ofin Catholic in Brussels that children who receive lessons swimming, which are made in the indoor pools are closed, but they are vulnerable to the effects pulmonary negative look at the high incidence of asthma asthma and infections of the airways bronchitis among themselves later.

* Pools closed The study modern after the succession and Rhode medical studies earlier, was health supplement in the «Middle East» had referred to some of them in three previous occasions, about the reasons for the high incidence of asthma among swimmers, professional and amateur, participants in the Games water various exercises in indoor. A recent study also researchers from Britain and Australia over the affected workers in indoor swimming pools, Kalmracben drowning or swimming instructors teach from inhaling chemicals resulting from reactions of chlorine used to disinfect pool water that. Said Dr. Thekit, Principal Investigator in the study and a specialist in lung diseases associated with occupations in the Heartland Hospital Birmingham in Britain, that this is added to the number of European and American studies which noted the high incidence of asthma among workers in a swimming pool and pool professionals. The reports had been reported earlier this month that about half of American swimmers participating in the Olympic Games that took place rivals Australia were already suffering varying degrees of asthma and allergic chest.

Which medical researchers believe that caused affected the quality of ambient air swimming pools, a private internal closed, materials added to the water for sterilization and ensure the safety of the microbes. So put several medical sources, the use of ozone sterilization technology alternative to overcome the risk of asthma that. Away from the use of chlorine and other chemicals formed by the reaction of chlorine with swimmers objects secretions, and thus spread into the surrounding air swimming pools.

And, according to other researchers Belgians, the chlorine disinfection pool water is the cause of the problem among children. They added that the chemicals produced by the presence of chlorine in the water and its interaction with objects secretions swimmers, working to raise sensitivity in operations inside the airways to the child's lungs. Which makes it easier in the later stages of life of asthma or other lung diseases has.

* Chlorine and its interactions It is well known that to protect swimmers from microbial diseases in the pool water, the chlorine is used regularly in sterilized. And take care of those interested on swimming pools and cleaned measurement of chlorine and the degree of acidic pH levels of water. And works chlorine to purify the water in the swimming pool of microbes, but it takes time to complete it. It is therefore important to ensure that the percentage of chlorine remain at all times within the amount effective to accomplish this task as it is medically advisable. As there are several factors which can maintain the necessary ratio of chlorine to disinfect the water, such as sunlight, dirt and decaying parts of the skin tissues swimmers in the water while swimming. Which calls Note ratio constantly tuned to maintain water sterilization of microbes. But there is also another important factor in the effectiveness of chlorine, even if the recommended rate within a factor magnitude of acidic water pool. Which cares for two reasons, first to eliminate chlorine force on microbes vary according to the degree of acid. The higher the index acidic, which became more alkaline water, weakened the power of chlorine to kill microbes. And second, the degree of acidity swimmers objects ranging between 7.2 and 7.8, if you are not so acidic water pool at this level, either rose or fell with him, led to the start swimmer complaint from irritation of the eyes and skin and nose. From here the importance of extreme care adjusting the ratio of chlorine and the pH of the water. Also not to assume that the use of chlorine release, officials from Hygiene of water pools, through attention to liquidate water and filtered to remove impurities or dirt. The addition of chlorine does not relieve those pools goers of attention to personal hygiene before, during and after swimming.

The immediate problem and its implications are not the use of chlorine in the pool water purification, but are these materials resulting from chlorine reactions while in those waters. It is known that the human while swimming out of it sweat secretions also degrade lashes amount of layers of skin tissue Foreign dead. This is not to mention the absurd practiced by young children, and even with the minds of children from adults, through urination or take a saliva while swimming in the pool water, including the resulting organic material inside the pool water. These organic materials react with chlorine, added primarily for water sterilization of microbes, resulting in the new chemicals and exciting for sensitive operations. It is the most important materials Tri chlorine Secretary trichloramine, and materials Aldhaydah, and hydrocarbons halogen, and chloroform, and materials Tri Halo Methane, and Kloraminac, which is either to escalate with vapors of water in the air to inhale السابحون or present within those pools closed, or remain dissolved in the water to interact directly with tissue Body contact with the water. It is also what gives the distinct smell of the air saturated chlorinated substances and humidity in the galleries closed pools, or in air atmosphere homes indoor pools are closed. It is the quality of the air distinguishes any of us if his presence in the halls or swimming pools closed houses. It is known in particular that the substance Tri chlorine Secretary trichloramine cause allergic irritation operations in the eyes, skin and parts of the upper respiratory tract.

* Children lung

* The Journal of Pediatrics has recently presented the results of a study researchers Belgians about the vulnerability of children and lung outbreaks of asthma later on, due to learn to swim and exercise in the indoor pools are closed. The study included about 250 school students, who are between the ages of 10 and 13 years old, and who follow the audience to learn to swim lessons in a closed swimming pools average of one hour and fifty minutes a week. It turns out that 50% of those who received lessons in those pools closed in the early stages of age were suffering from bouts of whistling chest, and they are vulnerable quadrupled to asthma or inflammatory airways, and also prone doubled to suffer from shortness of breath when jogging or running. This compared with children who did not receive those lessons in swimming pools closed internal in that stage of life.

To examine this aspect of learning about the role of young children swimming in indoor pools closed and the emergence of asthma cases among them, Dr. Bernard researchers and colleagues from the Catholic University of Ofin in Brussels a survey study of how a group of children injuries asthma. Was a question and their parents about the respiratory health of children and exposure to previous health setbacks, and the quality of the environmental effects to which they are exposed in the air. The researchers also conducted blood tests of these children especially certain types of proteins in the blood, which is the proportion of its presence in the blood closely related to the level of health of the lining of the airways inside people lung structures in children.

The researchers found, review the results, that children who were peek inside these indoor pools interior, showing signs and indicators of damage to the lining of the air people. And that this damage in that particular membranes makes them more susceptible to fits of asthma and injury are also frequent cases of bronchial infections. And specifically said that the tissue lining the airways become unable to control in preventing the force of irritating chemicals to allergic reactions into the lung tissue, which facilitates the entry into force of these chemical compounds when the child is exposed to them, and thus the emergence of asthma and bronchial infections. The researchers said that our results suggest that the pool of young children in sterile water with chlorine for pools closed linked with changes in the tissues of the airways of the lung. It is, with exposure to other environmental factors cigarette Kadkhna, child injury stimulates those with asthma and bronchial infections.

It is known that lung and their structures in young children in those early stages of life, but is in the process of growth, and in the process get a feel for the environmental effects also, chemicals, dust and dust in the air. Which means the sensitivity of that stage and the repercussions of their interactions on lung health in the later stages of life. So the researchers noted that the lung and bronchitis in children adversely affected in terms of risk willingness to fits of asthma and repeated bronchial infections in children who were exposed to air swimming pools closed saturated with chlorine gas and also smoke cigarettes. That increased exposure to irritating factors for lung tissue raises the possibilities of the future in the sensitivity of lung and their structures.

* Scientific debate

* In commenting on the study, said Dr. Allen Kdave, pediatrician asthma specialist at University Medical Center New York, said the study undoubtedly make us re-review exposing young children to the pool water, closed, if they affect the growth of lung tissue have. But the study are few in number, and I think, he said, that it is too early to refrain parents, by their results, taking their children to learn to swim lessons. This, considering that something must be thinking about it.

But Dr. Alfred Bernard, a researcher with the President in the Belgian study, said words accurate and realistic about the whole thing, as stated by saying that it is important to realize that medical studies that examined the effect of those safety of chemicals used in the sterilization of pool water, but recently started. Meaning that alert doctors and researchers about the chances of having negative health effects, especially on children, chlorine but is a modern alerted researchers did not attempt to evacuate truth of the matter in the past. And that the issuance of such recent studies but it is in fact the evolution in medical knowledge of what we were oblivious to him and its negative effects. And logical thinking simple requires, when one can hear the start alerting doctors to potential negative impacts, lack of response claiming it studies are few in number or the number of individuals that respondents few, that such requirements, research and studies, but are when comparing the effects of two referees, in an attempt knowledge of any of them stronger in the significance and meaning of the medical aspects. But when you talk about something I have never alert him seriously, especially when it comes to the health of children and organ tissue growth that everybody knows how sensitive influenced by the circumstances and environment variables around them, have signed a completely different results. And requires at the very least not be neglected, but the follow-up conducted on a larger scale and in different communities, with serious alarm for parents or others that there is a current medical warnings of potential vulnerability to negative.

So said Dr. Bernard say: Although the sterilization pool water chlorination is an essential part in achieving safety swim, but the parents and those responsible for the care of swimming pools to realize that this method can be used to sterilize pools safe manner only if maintaining the ratios of chlorine at the lowest levels capable of killing microbes, without added in quantities toxic exposure swimmers to the negative health effects.

He argued that the development of low levels of chlorine in the pool water increases the likelihood of exposure to microbial infections. If put in high quantities led to increased the likelihood of a vulnerability to negative. Which cross saying about Dr. Bernard chlorine should be used as an insert for the sterilization of microbes, and not as a cleaning lady to the pool water.

Said Dr. Bernard whether frequent pool children something, and parents should not take them to swimming pools officials do not care about them well. Because then the pool water and the air around them will contain a high percentage of chlorine. Which parents can be felt through either the strong smell of chlorine in the air then, or start feeling some itching or irritation to the eyes, nose or throat during the swim.

He said that parents generally attention to prevent the persistence of children in swimming and presence in its waters for more than twenty minutes if they complained that the high proportion of chlorine. And must also prevent children from drinking pool water at all.

* Ozone sterilization .. Not only for drinking water

* Linking medical researchers between the presence of chemical compounds resulting from the interaction of chlorine with organic materials in drinking water or in the pool water, and between high incidence of asthma and allergic parts of upper respiratory tract (which precedes the arrival of air into the trachea lung) and damage lung tissue itself and miscarriages and bladder cancer . It proved scientific observations to researchers as a result of studies that have been conducted in the United States, Canada, Britain, Belgium, Germany and Australia. They aspects previously presented in the number of 25 January from health supplement Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, when talking about the sterilization of drinking water chlorination. Indeed, one of those studies specifically said that children who at the age of ten, when they spend about two hours per week in a closed swimming pools and sterile water with chlorine, lung damage, which affects has parallels that of medical notes on the deep lung when they are smoking cigarettes! The question is whether alternatives are available to disinfect pool water in order to use it instead of resorting to chlorine to achieve this end?

The most important of those alternatives today seriously is the use of continuous ozone sterilization technology. While the production companies bottled drinking water has already been to use either technique ozone or UV light to sterilize water that preserve the taste of spring water pure and Net bottled carrot consumers to buy them, the same thing is possible to sterilize the pool water, it is best and surest, for the simple reason to ensure the purity of the water from the microbes using ozone, is to ensure that my time only after packing. After this, if not those sealed full, the water may be susceptible to contamination and microbial growth in it. This is unlike chlorine which remains article in the water all the time to ensure continuous sterilization to pretty much all the time.

Despite the availability of this technology in various regions of Europe to sterilize some of the water pools for more than 50 years, but that the adoption of pools public recreational use ozone sterilization technology waters remain too late, especially in the United States. But there is a trend towards benefit in this regard, and perhaps the first of which was held a few years ago in Verhob Alabama, but there are difficulties in the dissemination of this method. The problem is the high cost of providing the use of such technology, which may be seen by some of the most important of all results of those studies that talked about the medical groups of adverse health effects on the pool goers. This is despite also that researchers in the disciplines of various related care water pools, and swimming pools themselves say that the cost of physical high that initially offset by not having to such care repeated sterilization pool water using chlorine, as well as protecting the structure pools themselves and their parts different from the effects of chlorine on them. Whether talking about building a swimming pool structures themselves or ventilation and lighting systems for swimming halls or even furniture. Wholesale and does not cause ozone to any of them.

As they say that water will be more purity, makes it easier for filtering devices work fast to purify water of impurities without exposure to each chemical compounds that result from the interaction of chlorine with organic material accumulated in the water swimming.

Ozone is produced from oxygen molecules composed of two atoms of oxygen, through the conversion process using electrical energy towards the formation of ozone molecules consisting of three oxygen atoms. The fact that ozone is a stronger material at many stages of chlorine in its elimination of microbes. But because the age of ozone molecule is very short, it is necessary to provide a device for production on a continuous basis to make water purification process is also continuous.