This is the Risk Swim Before Age 2 Years

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Children who started to swim before age 2 years can increase the risk of lung infections and asthma may also respiratory allergy later in life.

The findings reported in the European Respiratory Journal, add to evidence that exposure to chlorinated pools may affect the respiratory health of children - especially if they have a family history of asthma or respiratory allergies such as hay fever.

Experts have suspected that the air quality around the pool, especially those in the room, could be the culprits. When the chlorine used to clean pools combines with sweat, saliva or urine of those who swim, irritating chlorine byproducts are formed, and from time to time these chemicals can damage the airways.

In the study researchers found that babies Belgium swim in indoor or outdoor pool, associated with an increased risk of bronchiolitis.

Bronchiolitis is an infection of the small airways of the lungs, usually caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is common in infants.

In this study, babies who developed infections swimmers also increased the risk of developing asthma or respiratory allergy while sitting in kindergarten.

"This shows that the presence of chlorinated pools may increase the risk of asthma and respiratory allergies by making the airways more sensitive, not only to allergens but also to an infectious agent," said senior researcher Dr. Alfred Bernard, Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels.

He does not advise parents to keep children from swimming, because this is a way of "fun" for children to become active.

"However, parents should not forget that klorins and derivatives-based disinfectants can cause irritation, tudak saliran only the skin but also the air," Bernard messages.

He said that parents should make sure the swimming pool is not excessive use of chlorine and as much as possible to avoid public swimming pools are chlorinated in large numbers. Some clues that a swimming pool using chlorine in large quantities such as the sharp smell of chlorine, and the eyes, skin and throat irritation after swimming.

Where possible, the researchers say, parents can also opt for a public pool that uses a method of alternative disinfectants, such as ozone treatment, which has long been used in Europe and become more common in the United States

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