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Chlorine: Harmless disinfectant or chloroform causing cancer risk?

Guest Post — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:25:06 +0000

Chlorine in water is a complicated issue. On one hand, chlorine is a naturally occurring element and a powerful disinfectant. When it comes to water purification, chlorine works. Used to treat the city water supply in many metropolitan areas, chlorine can help to prevent nasty waterborne diseases like cholera. On the other hand however, regular high doses of chlorine are not a good idea.

Chlorine has a chemical reaction with any organic matter present in the water, which creates trihalomethanes (THMs) such as chloroform as a bi-product. The health risks of ingesting THMs are not fully understood, so it’s difficult to dispel or confirm the man myths circulating about the effects of drinking water containing chlorine.

However, research suggests that ingesting a large dosage of THMs can have adverse health effects, and so it’s best to avoid methods of water treatment like water purification tablets[http://www.sureaqua.com/no-more-water-purification-tablet] that rely on chlorine.

The main argument for avoiding chlorine in water is that chlorine can react with organic matter to create chloroform, a type of THM. Chloroform has been linked to the formation of many types of cancer, but the connection is uncertain. Chloroform can also be present in air and food, so it’s difficult to determine how much damage the presence of chloroform in water is doing.

Despite links between chlorine and chloroform, chloroform and cancer, according to the Australian Cancer Council: ‘There is no evidence for the myth that drinking chlorinated water or swimming in chlorinated pools can cause cancer.’ So if your city’s water treatment facilities use chlorine, don’t worry, there isn’t necessarily a need to filter it out. Chlorine is certainly safe in small doses.

Swimming pools often contain high levels of chlorine. This is for a reason: they keep it sanitary. If the pool is correctly chlorinated, you’re unlikely to get sick from the presence of e-coli[http://www.sureaqua.com/drinking-water-quality/water-poisoning ] and other nasties in the water. However, liquid chlorine is extremely dangerous, so be wary of other people’s home pools. If you own a pool make sure to sanitize it accurately and keep the chemicals in a safe place.

Basically, chlorine is one of those tricky gray areas. Just like so many other things teetering on the line between good and bad, health and profit (think GM food, weight loss pills, fizzy energy drinks, flirting with your boss), it’s hard to know where you stand. A healthy way to approach chlorine in water is not to worry so much that you opt for bottled water over tap water (bottled water[http://www.sureaqua.com/products/comparison/BottleWater] has its own unique set of evils), but not to rely on water filtration devices that rely on chlorine as a disinfectant.

Where is SureAqua in all of this? SureAqua recognizes that chlorine is what it is. It doesn’t filter it out. If the water treatment facility in a particular city has deemed it appropriate to put chlorine into the water, it’s probably necessary. Chlorine kills bugs and the amount of chlorine that they are allowed to use is harmless. Most countries allow a maximum of 5mg for every liter of water, but the presence of chlorine in most areas is much less than that.

However, no SureAqua products use chemicals to filter water. Therefore, SureAqua filtration is completely safe, providing you with nothing but clean water and peace-of-mind.

What is the best way to cure esophageal cancer?

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:27:55 +0000

doggy dog asked:

My father is suffering from esophageal cancer. The cancer has affected a nerve near his throat causing him to lose his voice. Also, it has already metastasized to two other organs.

He has been treated with combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy for half a year, but his cancer shows no sign of shrinking and it’s gradually growing.

His doctor says he cannot surgically remove the cancer because the cancer is adjacent to nerves and important organs and such an operation will damage the adjacent areas.

Isn’t there any good way to cure his cancer?

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admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:41:53 +0000

skahhh asked:

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How do I plan a cancer walk for my school?

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:31:54 +0000

zbbasktbal82092 asked:

Next year, I want to plan to have a cancer walk that students can participate in, but I have never been in charge of planning a cancer walk before. What advice do you have? Who can I get in contact with to do this? Should other people be allowed into the cancer walk? Should we put together teams to walk that day? Any suggestions are appreciated and will be taken seriously.
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What is the fastest anyone has ever gotten cancer from smoking?

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:23:48 +0000

xshizza asked:

Studies show a 20 year gap between starting smoking and developing lung cancer. My question is, what is the shortest amount of time between somebody starting smoking and developing cancer that could be reasonably attributed to a cause of the smoking?

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admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:56:28 +0000

OLLiE asked:

After ****** cancer operation, what medications do you have to attend to? How frequent in a year should you do it? What are the medicines you need to take?

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admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:50:15 +0000

mickey asked:

My friend just found out that she has ****** cancer in her right ****** but three different lump types of cancer in one breast, and it has effected her lymph nodes at least two of them. What are her chances and what stage cancer would that be? She is going to be having a mascetomy and chemo.