Common causes of eye stinging

[PoolDoc]

My mom has been having issues with this as well, the chlorine and ph are in balance. No one else is though, so I am inclined to think it is an alergy, last year she swore it was my Canna plants, so this year I did not plant them and it still is happening, very troublesome...

You might want to establish a baseline for comparison. You can do this, by getting two droppers, and filling one with tap water, and one with eye saline purchased from the contact care section of your grocery or whatever. Drop them into her eyes, and let her (yourself / him / whatever) note what's typical of your 'fresh' water, and also of eye saline.

The eye saline is the *least possible* irritating water. If that's too irritating for him / her / them / you . . . there's nothing you can do. There's no way to make pool water less irritating than that!

The fresh water is the 'norm' for your pool -- unless you are very careful, and probably, unless you add salt, you aren't going to be less irritating than that. People often blame 'chlorine' for eye irritation, when their tap water is even more irritating than their pool water, even though the pool water will usually have more chlorine.

It's also worth noting that virtually all real swimmers wear goggles when swimming, regardless of what water they are swimming in. Personally, I find ocean water less irritating than most pool water, but my wife won't open her eyes in either one. Both of my boys (11 & 19) who swim thousands of yards weekly, always carry their goggles, regardless of what they are going to be swimming in.

Ben
"PoolDoc"