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Teresalf

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  1. We have had our hot tub for a month. The first 2-2 1/2 weeks there was no problems except for balancing. We farm and ranch so we put in long physical days. We sit in our tub at least 3 hours nightly, sometimes with friends. The people that set up the tub told us to check the levels once a week and treat once a week. That obviously would not work and I found that out the hard way. I'm a freak about researching things so I went to work and figured it out on my own. In the process I found chemicals that was a better quality than what came with my package deal so I ordered those and started transitioning to those. Well all hell broke lose for my husband. At about 3 weeks I had changed to the new chlorine and was using the non chlorine shock off and on. He got "the" rash. It wasn't to bad at first, just treated it with cortisone cream. About half way through the forth week, after I had started using the new brand of chlorine and shock solely, he woke up with a swollen face, eyes and his cheeks were hard to the touch, not to mention his whole body was covered in hives! He started his treatment yesterday and is responding well. Back to my obsessive research. At first I thought it was the chlorine, had to be, right? I researched for hours. I had to because my husband has wanted a hot tub for 10 years and I always said no because I didn't want to take care of it, but after sitting in it, I was hooked! So I went to the store and asked the guy if the two chlorine's I was using had the same ingredients in them. We checked the labels and yes they were the same. So then I asked about the shock and he said yes they were the same, until he read the label. The shock I started with was Spa Ease Oxy Blast and is sodium peroxydisulfate, it's more like peroxide. The shock I had switched to 3/4 of the way through had potassium peroxymonosulfate. The timing of use of these ingredients pretty much has me convinced it was the potassium. I got the Oxy Blast and started using it again. It will be a few more days before he can sit in it again but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he was allergic to just the potassium in the one shock.
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