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there are thousands of medical and
chemical information on the dangers of chlorine, and children exposed to it?
IS your child exposed to it -do you own a swimming pool?

if so please read- and do the research...
peace,
tena

From New Scientist
Science : Swimming-pool gas is in the blood
05 October 1996
http://www.newscientist.com/article....400&print=true

Gary Eastwood
CHLORINE kills bacteria in swimming pools—and also, it seems, in the blood. American biologists say that the gas is an important weapon in the armoury that white blood cells use to fend off invading microorganisms.

When bacteria enter the body, white blood cells called neutrophils use an array of toxic chemicals to kill them, including hydrogen peroxide, a powerful bleaching agent. But hydrogen peroxide can react with other molecules in the blood, and Jay Heinecke and his colleagues at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis realised that these reactions could form chlorine.

Looking for chlorine itself was not feasible, as the gas is so reactive that it would exist only fleetingly. But Heinecke's team devised a system to detect retrospectively whether it had been produced. They cultured neutrophils in the laboratory, then took red blood cells, filled them with an amino acid called tyrosine, and coated them with antibodies and other blood proteins to ensure that they would be attacked by the neutrophils.

The neutrophils soon destroyed and engulfed the tyrosine-filled red blood cells. The researchers then used a mass spectrometer to show that the fluid in which the neutrophils were held contained traces of 3-chlorotyrosine, a chemical marker left behind when chlorine attacks tyrosine (Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol 98, p 1283). "We haven't proven that chlorine kills bacteria in vivo yet," stresses Heinecke. But he is confident that will turn out to be the case.

Unfortunately, the toxic chemicals released by white blood cells can damage the body's own tissue. Heinecke thinks the production of chlorine by neutrophils could be involved in heart disease, cancer, arthritis and stroke.

From issue 2050 of New Scientist magazine, 05 October 1996, page 16


This public health statement tells you about chlorine dioxide and chlorite and the effects of exposure to them.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies the most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation. These sites are then placed on the National Priorities List (NPL) and are targeted for long-term federal clean-up activities. Chlorine dioxide and chlorite have not been found in any of the 1,647 current or former NPL sites. Although the total number of NPL sites evaluated for these substances is not known, the possibility exists that chlorine dioxide and chlorite may be found in the future as more sites are evaluated. This information is important because these sites may be sources of exposure and exposure to these substances may harm you.

When a substance is released either from a large area, such as an industrial plant, or from a container, such as a drum or bottle, it enters the environment. Such a release does not always lead to exposure. You can be exposed to a substance only when you come in contact with it. You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking the substance, or by skin contact.

If you are exposed to chlorine dioxide or chlorite, many factors will determine whether you will be harmed. These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how long), and how you come in contact with them. You must also consider any other chemicals you are exposed to and your age, sex, diet, family traits, lifestyle, and state of health.

Also this site - is all about OUR BLOOD -red blood cells are damaged from
pools with Chlorine in them...
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ult...s/B/Blood.html



link to more information -on chlorine:

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/phs160.html

[DejaVu]

it's interesting!

Tena, have you heard/read much about the additive in many municiapl water supplies now called "chloramine?"

(Hadn't you posted in a forum about a bothersome sort of a rash?
I am thinking back on that just now... just as I am about to ask you about "chloramine" and/or "alert you to it!" Check out this site and see the types of rashes/burns people have been reporting.)

www.chloramine.org

Hope you are feeling much better!
Thaks again for the information!