If you drink chlorinated water, do you suffer from any stomach problems like a b!


Question: If you drink chlorinated water, do you suffer from any stomach problems like a bloated feeling!?
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Makes me constipated!. I usually will need some Metamucil if not a good triple H enema!. Good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

In the 1800's and the centuries before, cholera and other outbreaks of water borne illness were common!. Epidemics often killed the weakest members of society first, children, the elderly, and those already suffering illness!.

Even before it was understood that microorganisms in water could cause illness, associations had been made between epidemics and the public water supply!.

In one famous case a cholera epidemic was halted in London, England by a physician removing the handle to the Broad Street Pump, a public watering hole and compelling source of cholera disease!.

When compared to acute and often fatal epidemics of water borne illness, chlorination seems at first to to be a totally safe, and completely attractive alternative!.

But is chlorination a perfect solution !?
Cryptosporidium and giardia cysts can survive chlorination and cause fatal illness in persons who have weakened immune systems!. This is not theory!.

In 1993 more than 400,000 people developed gastrointestinal illness when a water treatment plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin failed to control turbidity at a critical time when the water source was rich with cryptosporidium cysts!.

What about the chlorine itself !?
One has to wonder how a water treatment that is intended to kill bacteria can be completely harmless to humans and animals!.

Large organisms like humans are actually large collections of cooperating cells, each of which on its own is not radically different from a bacteria!. One of the benefits of being a large organism is of course having collective means for cells to survive assaults that kill single-cells living on their own!.

But can a bacteria killer be a good thing to drink when we count on friendly bacteria to colonize our bowels !?, to help us digest our foods !? and metabolize essential vitamins !?

Friendly bacteria in your intestines, to support digestive health, reduce bloating, and promote a comfortably flat stomach!.

There is a worry about the chlorination of water that has scientific investigation to substantiate a specific concern - chlorination byproducts!.

Trihalomethanes: chloroform, bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane, bromoform, and haloacetic acids form in water when both chlorine and organic carbons are present!.

Organic carbons come from plant materials that are impossible to eliminate from public water systems!. Chloroform is found in nearly every public water system in the United States!.

Epidemiological studies have found that risk for bladder cancer, colon cancer, and rectal cancer increases with the length of life time one drinks chlorinated waters!.

Bladder and rectal cancer risk correlates with trihalomethane levels and length of lifetime one drinks chlorinated water!.

Colon cancer risk correlates with length of lifetime drinking of chlorinated water, but not with trihalomethane levels - some other chlorination byproduct seems to be at work with colon cancer!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

It depends, if I have eaten 3 curries and a chocolate cake with the cholirnated water, bloating can occur, but am usually fine with just the waterWww@Answer-Health@Com

No!. Most water in civililzed countries is chlorinated!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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