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Could you pick up decompression sickness from a bath?

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No: This requires serious pressure changes (scuba diving, working underwater in a pressurized environment.).

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

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A/W Dr. Friedlander.: The pressures exerted on the body are not high enough to cause dcs. Ecompression sickness (dcs) is also called the bends. When a diver descends in the water- pressure increases. As the diver ascends there is less pressure which allows dissolved gas to form bubbles in body tissues.

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