Category: Health
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The woman who is allergic to water
Rachel wakes up – and drinks a kind of poison that feels like a glass of stinging nettles. As it slips downs her throat, she can feel it blistering her skin, leaving a trail of red, itchy welts behind. Later that day, scorching drops of the stuff start falling from the sky. At the local…
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New Study: Swimming is Effective Part of Treatment for Fibromyalgia
A study out of Brazil suggests that swimming can help alleviate the pain of fibromyalgia, which the U.S. Health & Human Services Department/Office of Women’s Health says affects 5 million American adults – approximately 80 percent of whom are female. For sufferers who find walking exercise to be too painful, the new findings are particularly…
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Mayo Clinic Minute: Are Swimming Pools Safe?
Are our swimming pools safe? Every year, reports about outbreaks of cryptosporidia are in the news. The bacteria, which are resistant to chlorine, can cause many symptoms, including watery diarrhea. Should you worry about getting sick when you dive in?
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Guess How Many Zika Cases Showed Up At The Olympics?
Not 1,000. Not 50. Not even 10. Zero. “There have so far been no laboratory confirmed cases of Zika virus in spectators, athletes or anyone associated with the Olympics,” the World Health Organization said Thursday on its website. Now, no cases doesn’t mean no one caught Zika at the Summer Games. About 80 percent of people…
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Is It OK To Pee In The Pool?
Our pools are full of disinfectant chemicals that keep then free of microorganisms, but what you might not realize is that those same chemicals are interacting with, well, you. Today we’re talking poolchem, and we’re going to answer that age old question that’s been pondered in the back of every deep end swimmer’s mind –…
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Olympic Swimmer Talks About Her Period
After a race, she told a reporter she didn’t think she swam her best because she felt weak and tired after starting her period.
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Is it safe to swim in your contacts?
Is it safe to swim in your contacts? Dr. Danielle Trief of ColumbiaDoctors Ophthalmology gives us answers. Learn more at http://www.ColumbiaEye.org
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U.S. Olympic Swim Team’s Dr. Brian Cunningham
The U.S. Olympic swim team is cared for the same physical therapist, Dr. Brian Cunningham. He joins You & Me today to chat about how it is to care for our Olympic swimmers.
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Rio 2016: Swimmers need to ingest only three teaspoons of water to be almost certain of contracting a virus
A report commisioned by the Associated Press has revealed that water in Rio’s Olympic and Paralympic venues holds viral levels 1.7m times what would be considered alarming in the United States and Europe just five days before the Games get underway