just got good test kit. HELP PLEASE

[PoolDoc]

I don't think I can reassure you any more than I have.

Short of setting up two identical pools side by side one with high chlorine and one without, and putting your son in one for a week and then the other for a week, there's no way to prove that she's wrong. However, there are NO medical records supporting that, that I've ever seen or heard of.

On the other hand, digestive tract performance is well known -- medically speaking -- to be HIGHLY associated with anxiety. And though I'm having to use 'guess strips' here, there seem to be extremely high levels anxiety in, and around, your pool.

The fact is, this is not a problem we can treat chemically. Well, at least, not with pool chemicals.

[BigDave]

A thought, you say the pool tastes salty; ingesting enough salt water will give the observed GI symptom but it takes alot (prep. for colonoscopy usually involves drinking a gallon of highly concentrated salt water to get "cleaned out"). How salty? Like the ocean, like a pickle, like chips? Does your son drink alot of the pool? Does he lick the sunscreen?

[PoolDoc]

Dave, I think you are mistaken on what's used to prep for a colonoscopy. A gallon of "highly concentrated salt water" will kill you, if you don't throw it up!

[BigDave]

My bad, It came from the pharmacy in a gallon jug with white powder - filled with water and it tastes like alot like the ocean.

My observation really is: could the symptom be caused by something in the pool that's not chlorine? or could son of shub be ingesting something that's associated with pool activity?

[shub_31]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Thanks everyone for the help. I will now enjoy my pool and leave everyone alone unti. .l my pool burst into something unusual again. Thanks again. Scott

[PoolDoc]

You're welcome.

[shub_31]

Im back. Can someone tell me if its normal to smell the gases released while aerating. Inoticed when splashing you smell something funny.