If jacuzzis allow you to relax, these whirlpools can represent a danger to our health according to a microbiologist. Explanations.
Urine, feces, sweat…
Primrose Freestone, microbiologist at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom), develops in an article by The Conversation : “everything on our skin gets deposited in the hot water swirling around us. This includes the roughly 100mg of feces that usually sits between our buttocks”.
In remarks relayed by the site pourquoidocteur.frthe specialist continues: “this means that while you are relaxing in the hot water, you risk inhaling or swallowing bacteria, viruses and fungi from the body of your partner who is in the jacuzzi“.
The more you are in a jacuzzithe greater the amounts of sweat and excrement.
The more it smells, the worse it is
To know if the jacuzzi is ‘dirty’, during swimming you will experience eye pain. When sweat and urine mix with the chlorine used to disinfect the water in these baths, it creates a chemical called ‘chloramine’, which causes eye damage.
Another sign: a strong odor coming from the jacuzzi. This is because the more bodily fluids there are in the water, the stronger the smell of chloramine. The level of germs present in the pool is therefore very high.
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