September 9, 2011

To interesting conclusions on the results of studies made by scientists from New York University. As it turned out, the pool can have a devastating effect on tooth enamel.

Beauticians against pools

Doctors have also long since begun to sound the alarm about the water in the pool, or rather its acid-base balance. As a rule, the usual pool care is very mediocre, the water used for cleaning very aggressive chemicals, and if previously only beauticians and dermatologists have warned women about the possibility of the appearance of dry skin and hair, and now dentists have decided to declare serious problems with water.

The first studies

For the first time about the negative impact of bad water started talking back in 1986, when a study published in the journal American Journal of Epidemiology , Identified the fact that a serious destruction of tooth enamel (erosion) for professional swimmers. Slightly less than half of the people of this profession are suffering in this disease.

The destruction of tooth enamel inevitably occurs when the pH (hydrogen ion exponent) in water drops too low or acidity higher than normal. Often fans say the pungent smell of the pool during swimming, plucking the eyes and the nasal mucosa, cheating is the high content of chlorine in the water. But often the reason is in the lower pH.

Chlorine and health

However, even a high level of acid-base balance negative impact on the state of water in the basin, and hence on human health. If the pH level is too high chlorine rapidly eroded its ability to disinfect water is greatly reduced, resulting in still many germs and bacteria such as cryptosporidium.

To protect the skin, hair and tooth enamel, ask the administration of the pool on the level of pH, such measurements are required to do all the time, considered to be the best of 7, 2 to 7, 8.