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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND health AND sports AND toxics
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Grim Limb Gym
On chlorinated swimming pools |
Umbra Fisk |
21 Jun 2002 |
Ask Umbra |
| Umbra, I recently managed to mangle my knee and am going through all the 4,673 steps necessary to unmangle it and make it happy and functional again. One of the things my doctor advised me to do was swim. Well, swimming pools are of course full of chlorine! Hey, I just bought an expensive filter for my shower to keep the chlorine off the largest organ of my body, my skin. So what are the risks of contact with chlorinated water ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, sports, toxics (all these topics) |
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