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Are you a chemist?

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cbrunny

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I have a chemistry question. At least I think its a chemistry question.

I eat lots of bananas. And I swim in a chlorine pool 4 days a week. When I eat a banana before a swim, I get terrible heart burn during the swim. It is definitely the banana causing the problem. I estimate that I swallow a fair bit of water while I'm swimming, but not sure how much. None intentionally.

Is there some chemical reaction with whatever banana is made of and the chlorine? Potassium chloride, is that a thing that might be happening to my insides?

How long do I have to live?
 
WelshBloke said:
Do you swallow the bananananananas whole or chew them up first?
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no no I chew them good. Usually when i eat one I have one on the way to the pool.
highland145 said:
Why are you drinking pool water. Didn't we just have a thread about the urine and fecal matter?
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in that thread we also proved that everyone drinks dinosaur pee so i'm not too concerned. Also I've been in a lake before, so it could definitely be worse. also, im not drinking it on purpose. im just assuming it happens.
 
cbrunny said:
no no I chew them good. Usually when i eat one I have one on the way to the pool.

in that thread we also proved that everyone drinks dinosaur pee so i'm not too concerned. Also I've been in a lake before, so it could definitely be worse. also, im not drinking it on purpose. im just assuming it happens.
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Is that akin to tiger blood?
 
highland145 said:
Maybe I should take up swimming.

Back to the OP. Does the heartburn happen if you eat something else?
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no - thats the weird thing. it is strictly the banana that causes it.

from time to time i get heartburn but since I lost 62 pounds and am now trim & fit I rarely get it. The only place I get it is in the pool and only after eating a banana.

obviously the answer is to not eat the banana but I want to know if it is the banana & pool combo that is causing it (vs. just exercise, for example).

someone 'round here must be a chemist! where's that guy that thinks breaking bad is the best show ever? surely he knows whats up here.
 
This is spooky.My dad,sis and nephew are making banana cake as i type(sounds awful to me).they are using black/blackish bananas that i have frozen due to them goiving me heartburn.doubt chlorine has anything to do with it.
 
cbrunny said:
I have a chemistry question. At least I think its a chemistry question.

I eat lots of bananas. And I swim in a chlorine pool 4 days a week. When I eat a banana before a swim, I get terrible heart burn during the swim. It is definitely the banana causing the problem. I estimate that I swallow a fair bit of water while I'm swimming, but not sure how much. None intentionally.

Is there some chemical reaction with whatever banana is made of and the chlorine? Potassium chloride, is that a thing that might be happening to my insides?

How long do I have to live?
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Nothing to do with the swimming pool specifically.

Being submerged in water puts higher than 1ATM pressure on your stomach, which forces acid from your stomach past your esophageal sphincter into your throat, thus heartburn. It happens after bananas because it's a pile of sugar, which creates gas in your stomach/intestines (due to gut flora) and so the added pressure between that and the water pressure causes it. You could probably do the same thing with a donut.

This same mechanism is also why a lot of overweight people have heartburn, and why a lot of people have heartburn after sugary stuff. Doubly so if both occur.
 
[DHT]Osiris said:
Nothing to do with the swimming pool specifically.

Being submerged in water puts higher than 1ATM pressure on your stomach, which forces acid from your stomach past your esophageal sphincter into your throat, thus heartburn. It happens after bananas because it's a pile of sugar, which creates gas in your stomach/intestines (due to gut flora) and so the added pressure between that and the water pressure causes it. You could probably do the same thing with a donut.

This same mechanism is also why a lot of overweight people have heartburn, and why a lot of people have heartburn after sugary stuff. Doubly so if both occur.
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SCIENCE!
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Thanks!
 
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