Dr. Ernest Blatchley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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Yeah, there are some people whose skin is irritated by chloramines broadly, including trichloramine.
But that it's a pretty, I don't honestly know the sort of medical explanation for this, but that's pretty variable among people.
And it's probably some sort of allergic response or something like that.
But not everyone reacts that way.
If you can smell it, well, okay, so the human sense of smell is also pretty variable among people.
So my nose is almost useless.
But there are a lot of people who have very sensitive senses of smell for breathing.
even people that have relatively sensitive senses of smell, if you're smelling trichlorine, if you have that sort of chlorine odor in an indoor pool, it's probably at a concentration that's going to cause problems.
There are.
I mean, there are a lot of pools that use in their recirculating treatment systems UV to treat the water, and it has
some overlapping characteristics with chlorine.
But rather than remove chlorine from the pool, probably a better strategy is to use less chlorine and to improve the hygiene habits of the swimmers.
Because these reactions require both sets of reactants to be present, the chlorine and all those other things that are present in human body fluids.
So if we cut back on the human body fluids, I think it's likely to be probably a better solution than eliminating the chlorine.
And there certainly are pools.
I mean, you've probably been in pools where you can't smell that sort of characteristic odor.
And you've probably been around pools where that odor is pretty strong.
I would say maybe a good idea to avoid the latter.
Possibly.
I'm not going to address that.
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