00:00Don't drink the pool water was a common phrase I'd hear from my mum when cooling off in the
00:05swimming pool on a hot summer's day. Jason Kunz, the Healthy Water Program lead at the
00:10Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch,
00:14tends to agree. You can get swimming-related illnesses from water contaminated with germs.
00:20Sicknesses like swimmer's ear, eye irritation, and rashes can occur from having contact with
00:26chemicals that are in the water or inhaling chemicals that evaporate and turn into gas in
00:32the air. HuffPost reports the most common cause of swimming-related illness outbreaks is diarrhoea,
00:38often referred to as a code brown. There is a protocol the lifeguards and pool operators follow
00:44before allowing people back into the water, explains Dr. Claire Rock from the Johns Hopkins
00:50University School of Medicine. To do your part to mitigate pool germs, try rinsing off.
00:56Just one minute reduces most of the dirt or anything else on your body
01:00that uses up chlorine or bromine needed to kill germs.
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