Plus: the part of the pool you should avoid swimming in 🌊
Professor of Microbiology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Arizona, suggests staying away from the kids' shallow areas. “Children don’t have great sanitary habits and as wading areas are only a foot-or-so deep, the chlorine gets used up quite fast,’ he explains.The news is even better for the ocean urinators, with nothing really happening when in natural seawater. “Don’t worry about urea in the ocean," says Dr. Gerba.
, a professor at the University of California San Diego, explains that there’s no harm. “Even if all the people swimming over a coral reef peed simultaneously, the number of bacteria or nitrogen released would still be a ‘drop in the ocean,’ literally.”As humans, we’re walking bacteria. Any human body is estimated to carrythat include bacteria, viruses, and fungi—all living on and in us. These cells are released into the air at a rate of 30 million an hour, explains Professor Gilbert.
While this isn’t an issue as long as the pool is properly maintained, Professor Gerba warns that there is one parasite that chlorine won’t attack, cryptosporidium; an illness that gives the infected person diarrhea and loose stool. While anyone can catch it, it’s commonly caused by swallowing recreational water, according to
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