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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 dragonwriter on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:21PM (#19210413)
> Most pools require toddlers and infants to wear special swim diapers that provide some type of barrier to prevent pee (and worse) from getting in the water.

Swim diapers are to prevent feces from getting in the pool, or at least greatly limit the quantity. They really don't do much of anything for urine, nor are they intended to. (An absorbent diaper in a pool would be useless and fail completely as it would become oversaturated.)

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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by lukevdp on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @01:54PM (#19210805)
Not sure why this is getting downvoted because it’s 100% correct. I’ve got two toddlers, we use these and it says this on the package.
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Re:Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: C... by spookthesunset on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:22PM (#19212133)
Dunno why. Swim diapers are only to keep solid poop from escaping into the water. They aren't at all meant to keep in urine. To keep urine (or liquid poo) from escaping you'd basically need some kind of completely waterproof barrier between the kiddo and the pool water... which would be pretty friggin awkward to wear.
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