As we have often said, we use ozone to sanitize the water in our indoor pool. Why is that? Because chlorine is toxic, it’s a poison that kills things like e. coli and giardia. In a pool you need something to kill bacteria and other germs and chlorine is the most popular choice because it’s inexpensive. Unfortunately, because it’s toxic, it has actually been linked to serious health problems in humans because it absorbs quickly through the skin. And there is new research out that substantiates this fact. Here is some of that research.

• Research by Marywood University confirms that long-term exposure to chlorinated pools can cause symptoms of asthma in previously healthy swimmers, especially younger ones. It can also cause eye and skin irritation, and when in drinking water, can cause dementia in the elderly.
• New York University College of Dentistry found that swimming in a chlorinated pool can cause tooth enamel erosion.
• Research by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) found that pool water sanitized by chlorine caused neurological dysfunction in 16% of the total reported chlorinated water cases.
• Chlorinated water is responsible for causing a high percentage of skin cancers every year. People who are excessively exposed begin to develop skin rashes and infections which can lead to cancer.
• A study by the University of Cordoba in Spain found dangerous chlorine by-products present in the urine of swimmers. These by-products are associated with cancer and birth defects. It took up to three hours for the by-products to be eliminated from their bodies.

If chlorine is doing these things to you, you can best believe it’s doing the same thing to your dog. We knew we didn’t want to spend time in chlorine and we certainly didn’t want our client dogs to experience that either. Their health and well-being is too important to us. So we spent the money on an ozone system, something that’s actually therapeutic. If you would like to learn more about our ozone system, please visit this blog post titled “Why We Use Ozone Not Chlorine in Our Pool.”

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