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A comment on Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015). Parent comment

Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by ygjb on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:32PM (#19209814)
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but unless you swim in a dead body of water, there are worse things than human urine and feces in the water...
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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by snazz on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @12:52PM (#19210083)
Where I live, plenty more people are infected from bacteria in goose poop in lakes than from human waste in swimming pools.
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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by paganel on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:23PM (#19211093)
That’s why it’s never such a good idea to swim in a lake.
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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by snazz on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:37PM (#19211215)
At the very least, you shouldn’t stick your head in the water, and swimming in shallower areas exposes you more strongly to contaminants than in deep areas.
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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by 00N8 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:25PM (#19210481)
conversely, it seems like unless there are dead bodies in the water, human waste would be the worst likely contaminant. or am I missing something?
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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:36PM (#19210622)
There's certainly the dead bodies/waste products of fish in natural water, and there's no chlorine to sterilize them.
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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by olyjohn on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:06PM (#19213334)
Yeah, don't care. The mental image of 1000 kids peeing in the pool, and the same water being in it for months on end grosses me out to no end.

I also honestly can't imagine what is worse than human piss and shit. Maybe those leeches that swim up your dickhole? I don't think there are any of those around here. I'm genuinely curious what is worse...

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