It's Not Chlorine That Makes Your Eyes Go Red In The Pool...

Most of us have always thought that our eyes going red after swimming in a pool is because of the chlorine.

Turns out that's not exactly the case..

Dr. Michael J. Beach, associate director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Water program, has said ‘Chlorine binds with all the things it’s trying to kill from your bodies, and it forms these chemical irritants. That’s what’s stinging your eyes. It’s the chlorine binding to the urine and sweat.’

Basically, your eyes go red due to a chemical reaction between chlorine, sweat and human excrement. EW.

According to a poll by Travel Zoo of Americans, Brits, Chinese, Canadian and German travellers on travelling faux-pas, Americans pee in the pool the most.

Asked if they’d relieved themselves in the pool or the sea, 64 per cent of Americans fessed up, followed by the Brits (46%), Germans (44%), Canadians (58%) and Chinese (41%).

There are no statistics to prove how many Kiwis have ditched the loo for the lap pool..

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