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Pools: Outdoor and Indoor Boost Kid's Asthma-Risk...

Posted on September 27, 2008

It s getting a little late in the season, but a new study in the European Respiratory Journal has determined outdoor pools INCREASE children s asthma risk. Researchers blame prolonged exposure to chlorine vapors; Reuters reports.Actually, this backs up a previous study about indoor pools. Researchers linked inhalation of chlorine byproducts to lung damage in infants and possible asthma later in childhood. It appeared in the journal Pediatrics; via Reuters.Keeping excitable kids out of the pool might be hard. Maybe limit their time swimming instead. After all, growing bodies MUST be kept sa...

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