Here is a loaded question. What is more dangerous? Showering in tap water or drinking it?
Obviously, having been told that this is a loaded question, you're likely thinking that there's something to the whole showering bit. And you would be right. But why?
To help you understand, here are a few well-known facts. Just reading them in one place one after another should make the potential health concerns obvious as a chicken dressed in a tuxedo on the dance floor.
- Treated tap water contains harmful chemicals that could cause negative reaction if ingested or inhaled especially in large quantities or continuously.
- Our skin act as filters to screen out harmful elements from entering our bodies.
- When heated, our pores open up.
- Open pores are more susceptible foreign particles or chemicals.
- Warm or hot showers and baths open up the skin pores all over the body.
- Hot showers produce steam.
- Steam can carry harmful chemicals present in the water.
- Long term exposure to chemicals such as chlorine can cause respiratory problems if inhaled continuously or for long periods of time.
- Chemicals introduced to the body by breathing can enter the blood system more quickly and cause multiple issues than ingesting them.
- Many swimming pool kits caution users to limit chlorine use to maximum of 3ppm (parts per million) as potentially hazardous (you can see the recommended level here is actually a lot lower than 3ppm).
- Tap water is often disinfected with chlorine at concentration levels of 3ppm.
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