Do you know what’s in the water you’re drinking? Now, you’re probably thinking about I’m talking about some dangerous chemical. I bet that you wouldn’t think about chlorine at all. Chlorine is used to purify water, you might say. Nevertheless, chlorine can have negative effects on your health. Let’s see what chlorine is and what effects it can have on you. What’s chlorine and why do we use it? Chlorine is a chemical element with numerous applications. You know one of its compounds, and you probably use it every day. I’m talking about sodium chlorine, also known as salt. On the other hand, chlorine gas has been used as a weapon since 1915. But why do we use chlorine for water purification? Well, there are several reasons: - kills bacteria …show more content…
Just breathing the fumes from an overchlorinated pool might be enough to make you feel ill. Swimming in chlorinated water can also cause skin irritations, eczema in people with sensitive skin, and dry hair. As usually, young children with developing immune system are the one to be affected. One study even concluded that children who swim in pools regularly are more likely to develop asthma than non-swimming children. Chlorinated water increase heart disease risk Way back in the 1960s, Dr. Joseph M. Price published a book called “Coronaries Cholesterol Chlorine.” In his book, he proposes the theory that all heart attacks, strokes, and atherosclerosis are not caused high cholesterol levels, but chlorine instead. Since chlorine causes the production of free radicals, these radicals damaged the cells. The cell damage leads to high level of serum cholesterol and the building of plaques on the artery’s walls. To support his claims he experiments on chickens. The result showed that 95% of the chicken, which drank chlorinated water, developed atherosclerosis. Another scientist Richard Bull did the same experiment with pigeons and obtained the same