Category: Health
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Why Peeing in the Pool Could Be Dangerous
It’s kind of a pain to get out of the pool just to use the bathroom, plus chlorine is a disinfectant so it is fine to pee in the pool, right? Well, it turns out that might give you some health issues.
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Boy’s dream comes true: Rescue swimmer on a mission
Honorary Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Bishop wore his flight suit Wednesday after completing pool training and basic air crewman training with the US Coast Guard.
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Tokyo governor to push for smoking ban before 2020 Olympics
Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike will push for a law banning smoking in public places, to make the Japanese capital smoke-free ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics, media said, defying national politicians who failed to pass a similar law this spring. Tokyo risks being one of the unhealthiest cities to host the Olympics in years, but…
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Michael Phelps: ‘I locked myself in my room for four days’
For a man who glides so quickly and effortlessly through the water it seems perverse to think of Michael Phelps confining himself to one room for four straight days. Such were the depths of a spiral that would threaten to cripple the comeback of a man widely regarded as one of the greatest sportsmen of…
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Olympic great Ian Thorpe reveals he can no longer swim after shoulder replacement surgery
Olympic great Ian Thorpe has revealed he can no longer swim, having lost his famous freestyle stroke after shoulder replacement surgery. The five-time Olympic gold medallist, 34, said he had come to terms with what his body was now able to do following the surgery two years ago. “When I first retired all those years…
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Scientists confirm worst fears about pee in pools
About one in five Americans say they’ve peed in the pool. Even the world’s most famous pool-user, Michael Phelps, says “everybody” does it. Now scientists have finally figured out a way to quantify just how much urine is in our pools, and the results in Environmental Science & Technology Letters probably won’t please swimmers. A research team…
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‘We’re being forced out of the river – by swimmer’s itch’
Swimmers are being forced out of the River Cam after being “attacked†by parasitic mites that have spread rapidly in the water due to the warm weather. The parasitic duck mite appears in the River Cam at this time of year and can cause a condition known as ‘swimmer’s itch’ (or cercarial dermatitis). Newnham resident…
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Parasites in Pools Are on the Rise
Sometimes the evening news reveals something that causes you to worry about that which you never worried before. Such may have been the case when news emerged recently of a huge uptick in the number of diarrhea outbreaks after people went swimming in a public pool and inadvertently swallowed the water. But that was just…
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Man dies from flesh-eating bacteria after swimming with new tattoo
A 31-year-old man died after he reportedly ignored warnings about swimming after getting a new tattoo and contracted a flesh-eating bacteria infection in the Gulf of Mexico. The unidentified man, whose case was detailed in the British Medical Journal, had gotten a tattoo on his right calf five days prior to swimming, Metro reported. The…