Thilbert's right...Something's wrong with the pool chemistry and the chlorine's getting blamed. Shocking the pool with more chlorine may well clear it.

When your pool is properly maintained, chlorine levels can be QUITE high without the tell-tale chlorine smell, or eye irritation. But used-up chlorine--Combined Chloramines, are irritating and smell like chlorine. The best way to get rid of them is shock your pool with more chlorine to, "burn" it out. When you read all FC (Free Chlorine) and zero CC (Combined Chloramines) the problem should go away.

HOWEVER, another cause of eye irritation is low pH...Try moving your pH to 7.6 or even 7.8 and it should drop off.

I've just learned many people add salt to the water until it matches the body's salinity level. Then the pool water will match the salinity of things like tears and not be irritating. I don't know a lot about that, but PoolDoc sure does.

But Chlorine always gets the blame when it's not its fault!