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Swimming Pool Air May Be Hazardous - in Pulmonary, Asthma from MedPage Today Lifeguards, swimming instructors, and other pool rats are possible to wind up with respiratory symptoms, according to researchers here. The culprit is probably chlorine in the pool bathe, which reacts with organic substances, such as sweat or saliva, to contour chloramines -- substances that are sense to irritate the respiratory tract, form Jos Jacobs, Ph.D., of the University of Utrecht. The most changeableness of the chloramines is trichloramine, which easily migrates from the bathe to the air above and has been associated with upper respiratory symptoms, Dr. Jacobs and colleagues reported in the April inquiry of the European Respiratory Journal .