TRIHALOMETHANE CONCENTRATIONS IN SWIMMERS AND BATH ATTENDANTS BLOOD AND URINE AFTER SWIMMING OR WORKING IN INDOOR SWIMMING POOLS

Authors
CAMMANN K HUBNER K
Citation
K. Cammann et K. Hubner, TRIHALOMETHANE CONCENTRATIONS IN SWIMMERS AND BATH ATTENDANTS BLOOD AND URINE AFTER SWIMMING OR WORKING IN INDOOR SWIMMING POOLS, Archives of environmental health, 50(1), 1995, pp. 61-65
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Environmental Sciences
Journal title
Archives of environmental health → ACNP
ISSN journal
00039896
Volume
50
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
61 - 65
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9896(1995)50:1<61:TCISAB>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The influence of working or swimming in indoor swimming pools on the c oncentrations of four trihalomethanes (haloforms) in blood and urine w as investigated. Different groups (bath attendants, agonistic swimmers , normal swimmers, sampling person) were compared. The proportions of trihalomethanes in blood and urine correlated roughly with those in wa ter and ambient air. Higher levels of physical activity were correlate d with higher concentrations. Within one night after exposure in the p ool the blood concentrations usually were reduced to the pre-exposure values. Secretion of trichloromethane in urine was found to be less th an 10%.