Is it possible to pee while swimming

These bacteria, just like those that live on the skin or in the mouth, are generally not considered harmful, and most swimming pools are treated with chlorine and other chemicals to reduce the risk of passing any diseases to others. Sometimes you just have to go! But is it really safe? Learn more about vaccine availability. Advertising Policy. You have successfully subscribed to our newsletter.

Related Articles. Anyone over the age of, say, 9 or 10 caught peeing in a pool should be strongly reprimanded. College or adult swimmers should be ashamed … and perhaps banned from the pool. Anyone who is posting negative comments on this is clearly not a college swimmer—I can go ahead and double your sample size by saying that every single member of my college team pees in the pool.

Pee does not create significant air problems, poor ventilation does that wayyyy more. Anyway, just wanted to say that I love this article! From one college swimmer to another—keep up the good work. In Defense of Peeing in the Pool. Left Sidebar. I probably could have gone without knowing more about peeing, spitting sweating in the pool.

Jayne Artwick. Leah Allen. Mikayla Smith. Ema Rajic. Giulia Barbieri. Ross Knowles. Sweat and spit is bad enough. Kaitlyn Scott. Molly Autery Kerry Bresnahan. Molly Autery. Don Cheney. Reason for chlorine treatment. Tyeler Chesnut. I never could pee while in the pool. Brett Davies. Kadia Taylor. Cassidy Lavigne-Pietromartire. Do you really need to worry about dangerous urine-induced chemicals when you take that next dive? In the new study, researchers mixed uric acid found in urine with chlorine in the laboratory.

In their worst-case-scenario cocktail of substances mimicking both urine and sweat mixed with high levels of chlorine, the researchers found about 30 micrograms per liter or parts per billion of cyanogen chloride.

Again, that was a maximum in the lab, not in real swimming pool water. Her answer:. But could the much smaller amounts generated in an actual pool do any harm? With each swimmer urinating an average of 50 milliliters, or about enough to fill a shot glass, the pool would contain only about 12 micrograms per liter of cyanogen chloride. The pee-chlorine combo also makes trichloramine NCl 3 , another lung irritant, and just a touch of chloroform.

Long-term exposure to the compounds has been linked to asthma in professional swimmers and pool workers. In the future, the scientists suggest it may be possible to use ACE as a test to ensure that urine in pools is kept to a hygienic level. Contrary to the warning many children are given — that a coloured cloud will appear around them if they pee — there is currently no urine indicator dye that could be used in a pool. This article is more than 4 years old.

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