"The Dangers of Showering in Chlorine"

To give you an idea of exactly how toxic chlorine can be, allow me to give you some examples of its variety of uses:

• Chlorine is a critical compound in the manufacture of aerosols, pesticides, and even hydrochloric acid (H2 + Cl2 ==> 2 HCl).
• Chlorine is a well known and extremely strong household disinfectant.
• Chlorine is used to bleach wood pulp in paper mills. It is also used to bleach paper
• Chlorine was used as a chemical weapon in world war one-it was known as mustard gas.

If this sounds bad to you, you owe it to yourself to understand how chlorine can adversely affect your body if you are exposed to it on a regular basis via a chlorinated shower. Taking a hot shower with chlorine present in the water vaporizes the chlorine allowing it remain on your skin (which affects the natural stasis if bacteria on your skin-making it dull and lifeless) and enter your lungs.

When chlorine enters your lungs, very bad things can happen. Here is what the E.P.A. has to say about the dangers of inhaling chlorine on a regular basis:

From the E.P.A about the dangers of Chlorine:

Health Hazard Information

Acute Effects:

• Chlorine is a potent irritant in humans to the eyes, the upper respiratory tract, and the lungs.  Several acute (short-term) studies have reported the following effects: tickling of the nose at 0.014 to 0.054 parts per million (ppm); tickling of the throat at 0.04 to 0.097 ppm; itching of the nose and cough, stinging, or dryness of the nose and throat at 0.06 to 0.3 ppm; burning of the conjunctiva and pain after 15 minutes at 0.35 to 0.72 ppm; and discomfort ranging from ocular and respiratory irritation to coughing, shortness of breath, and headaches above 1.0 ppm. 
• Higher levels of chlorine have resulted in the following effects in humans: mild mucous membrane irritation at 1 to 3 ppm; chest pain, vomiting, dypsnea, and cough at 30 ppm; and toxic pneumonitis and pulmonary edema at 46 to 60 ppm. 
• Chlorine is extremely irritating to the skin and can cause severe burns in humans. 

Chronic Effects(Noncancer):

• Workers chronically exposed to chlorine gas have exhibited respiratory effects, such as eye and throat irritation, and airflow obstruction. 
• Animal studies have reported decreased body weight gain, eye and nose irritation, and nonneoplastic lesions and respiratory epithelial hyperplasia from chronic inhalation exposure to chlorine.
• The Reference Dose (RfD) for chlorine is 0.1 milligrams per kilogram body weight per day (mg/kg/d) based on no observed adverse effects in rats. The RfD is an estimate (with uncertainty spanning perhaps an order of magnitude) of a daily oral exposure to the human population (including sensitive subgroups) that is likely to be without appreciable risk of deleterious noncancer effects during a lifetime.  It is not a direct estimator of risk but rather a reference point to gauge the potential effects.  At exposures increasingly greater than the RfD, the potential for adverse health effects increases.  Lifetime exposure above the RfD does not imply that an adverse health effect would necessarily occur. 
• EPA has medium confidence in the RfD based on medium to high confidence in the principal study because relevant endpoints in two animal species were examined after prolonged exposure by an appropriate route, but an effect level was not observed in this study and higher levels may not be practicable due to taste aversion, and  medium confidence in the database because information is available for rats and mice on the noncarcinogenic toxicity of oral exposure to chlorine for subchronic periods. Developmental and reproductive toxicity of chlorine have been examined in rats and mice, but with suboptimal studies; due to the chemical relationship between chlorine and monochloramine, reproductive and developmental studies for monochloramine may be used to satisfy data gaps for chlorine.
• EPA has not established a Reference Concentration (RfC) for chlorine.
• CalEPA has established a chronic reference exposure level of 0.00006 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m 3) based on respiratory epithelial lesions in rats. The CalEPA reference exposure level is a concentration at or below which adverse health effects are not likely to occur. 

Not good!!! In addition chlorine can cause Reactive Airways Dysfunction, which is basically a disease that mimics asthma. For people that already have breathing problems like asthma, chlorine just exacerbates their problems. 

Remember earlier how chlorine can be used to make Hydrochloric acid? Well, once it enters your blood stream, it has the same capability to combine with carbon and make Hydrochloric acid in your own body!

One other mitigating factor in the danger of chlorine in your shower is that showers are often poorly ventilated, which increases the amount you intake through your lungs. The simple addition of a Rainshower shower head in your shower will reduce your contact with this potentially  harmful substance.

There is absolutely no need to shower in an industrial chemical bath daily!!!  Consider investing in a Rainshower shower filter today.

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