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Chlorine Exposure and Seizures

Mon, 09/24/2007 - 14:06
Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
Hi, I'm pretty new around here, and I really appreciate all of the great information. Some of it is applicable, and all of it is informative. Thanks. Anyway, my 5 year-old has been diagnosed with Focal Onset Seizures. She has had two Complex Partial Seizures in as many months, and is now on Keppra (after an alergic reaction to Trileptal). We're just waiting for the next one. In some of the research that I have done, I have found a couple of studies that linked Chlorine exposure to seizures. Most chlorine exposure research focuses on lung damage, but these focused on neurological damage that caused seizures. My question, is it possible to get elevated levels of exposure to Cholorine from a pool / hot tub? Daily use? Hot tub vapors? Over chlorination? All summer exposure? Another question might be "Do epilepsy diagnosis go up in the summer or among children who are exposed frequently to pools? I know this is a far reach, and there is no supporting research, that I have found on the relationship between pool use and epilepsy, but I thought that I would throw this out there and see if anyone else sees an similarities in their situation. Thanks again for the awesome information. Cris

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Re: Chlorine Exposure and Seizures

Submitted by PeggyB on Sat, 2008-11-15 - 19:24

I am 37 and had a grand mal seizure for the first time last week while visiting an indoor water park.  All of my tests have come back "normal" and the only thing anyone can think of is the chlorine.  I have been trying to research this and haven't come up with any definate answers.  Glad to know I'm not the only one with this question!

 

 

I am 37 and had a grand mal seizure for the first time last week while visiting an indoor water park.  All of my tests have come back "normal" and the only thing anyone can think of is the chlorine.  I have been trying to research this and haven't come up with any definate answers.  Glad to know I'm not the only one with this question!

 

 

Re: Chlorine Exposure and Seizures

Submitted by katfaerie on Thu, 2008-10-02 - 09:46

hi,  i have temporal lobe epilepsy.  i was diagnosed when i was 20, but i now know i had been having seizures for most of my life.  the first memory i have of having a simple partial seizure (altered perception, feeling ill, no loss of consciouness) was when i was a lifeguard, at 16 or 17.  i was on the high school swim team and then started life guarding in the indoor pool.  on more than one occasion i experienced this odd sensation while in the pool area.

i do not think that the exposure to the chlorine caused my seizures.  it was probably a trigger though.  to this day, i often feel overwhelmed at the first surge the smell of chlorine when entering an indoor pool.  my sister, also a swimmer, and also an epileptic, once had a petite mal/absence seizure in the pool.  she had to go to the hospital and could have drowned.  

i have always been sensitive to smells and i am now realizing that when a smell makes me feel sick, i might be having a type of seizure.  i definately think that smells can be triggers...

good luck to you all.

kat

hi,  i have temporal lobe epilepsy.  i was diagnosed when i was 20, but i now know i had been having seizures for most of my life.  the first memory i have of having a simple partial seizure (altered perception, feeling ill, no loss of consciouness) was when i was a lifeguard, at 16 or 17.  i was on the high school swim team and then started life guarding in the indoor pool.  on more than one occasion i experienced this odd sensation while in the pool area.

i do not think that the exposure to the chlorine caused my seizures.  it was probably a trigger though.  to this day, i often feel overwhelmed at the first surge the smell of chlorine when entering an indoor pool.  my sister, also a swimmer, and also an epileptic, once had a petite mal/absence seizure in the pool.  she had to go to the hospital and could have drowned.  

i have always been sensitive to smells and i am now realizing that when a smell makes me feel sick, i might be having a type of seizure.  i definately think that smells can be triggers...

good luck to you all.

kat

My 10 year old son had a

Submitted by Pjlee.team on Mon, 2020-03-02 - 21:57
My 10 year old son had a seizure after working out on dry land on the deck of an indoor swimming pool.  After 5 neurologists and 3 doctors and 3 ER hospital systems, we finally had to find an ILADS.org lyme literate doctor and he was diagnosed with Lyme.  The seizure comes from bacteria dying from his own immune system and overloading his lymphatic system, kidneys, and liver to be able to detox as fast as the bacterial death.  They release toxins when they die.  Exposure to the pool chlorine air got absorbed into his body and overloaded his ability to detox.  Sometimes it was the food he ate or stress triggering it because he is so blocked full of oxidative stress from the bacteria die off.  I urge you to have your son tested for Lyme by a specialist.

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