About Swimming Allergies About.com's Allergy Guide can help you determine if it is an allergy, and ways to help you control them. Asthma and Exercise Swimming is one of the sports that asthmatics can participate in and have success; the About.com guide to asthma looks at sports and asthma.
Bather Discomfort Problems Stinging eyes, green hair, and chlorine allergies. Chlorine Allergy Symptoms and remedies; From swimming@home. Managing Allergies Malcolm N. Blumenthal, MD and Carl Sherman discuss exercise and allergies, diagnosis and treatment; From The Physician and Sports Medicine. Medical hazards of swimming in pools The risks, infectious and otherwise, of using swimming pools. Swimming pool chlorine linked to asthma epidemic Chlorine used to disinfect indoor swimming pools could be one of the causes behind an astonishing surge in childhood asthma in developed countries in the past few decades, according to a new study. The Two Faces of Swimming Pool Chlorine Public pools are typically treated with chlorine-based disinfectants to help keep kids safe from the spread of infectious diseases while swimming. A careful study published in the June 2003 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine demonstrated a downside of these chlorines.
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