GLENWOOD SPRINGS. Colo. – How many times have you come out of the Hot Springs Pool with bloodshot eyes, blaming it on the chlorine?
News flash.
According to a recent report by Rodale News, it’s not the chlorine – it’s the pee.
Despite the Hot Springs Pool management claim that they add chemicals in the pool to detect when someone has urinated by turning the water around them red.
This test, thankfully, did not mention whether it included women at their time of the month…
However, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) says that nearly half of Americans pee in pools on a regular basis. Which, if the chemical that detect urine is true, means that most pools would be a deep shade of red.
“I swim in the Hot Springs Pool on a regular basis,” said one local. “And thousands of visitors come to soak in the waters as well. The natural sulpher odor of the water is bad enough, but to add pee to it, is disgusting.”
Pool visitors that suffer from “red eye” after being at the pool are also mistaken for being drunks that have spent several hours at the bars on Grand Avenue…
Pool pee-ers may be relieving themselves, but they’re hurting others, who choose to use the traditional restroom.
“Peeing in a pool depletes chlorine and actually produces an irritant that makes people’s eyes turn red,” a source from CDC’s Healthy Swimming Program said.. “The solution isn’t rocket science – it’s common courtesy. It isn’t the dye that turns red. It’s people”s eyes. And what you smell isn’t chlorine – it pee, sweat and dirt from swimmer’s bodies. That’s what causes your eyes to be red and sting,make your nose run and make you cough.
It’s all natural healthy hot waters until somebody’s eyes turn red…
