missing a week of the pool to do diarrhea

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if someone has diarrhea they can't go to the pool for a week? My DS has diarrhea today and wondering if he can go to the 4th of July party of will it be bad for him.

Is the diarrhea from something he ate or from a stomach bug?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many people actually follow this rule. Kind of like the suggestion that you keep your kids out of the sun between 10am-2pm. How is that gonna work with our summer plans?

I agree with the poster who suggested you let him swim as long as he is feeling okay and has not has any diarrhea in the past 24 hours and is obviously totally potty trained.

Or the people that give the sick kid Tylenol to temporarily bring down fever and drop kid off at school or don't wait 24 hours after puking, etc.

[Anonymous]

I used to think that was a silly rule. However, some had diarrhea in a path all the way from the pool to the ladies room at Overlee pool a few weeks ago. It was utterly disgusting. So please don't take your sick kid to the pool at least until a normal stool is present.

[Anonymous]

It's a shitty thing to do to others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a shitty thing to do to others.

Pun intended?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be bad for everyone in the pool. Diarrea illnesses tend to shed for weeks after and can spread at the pool.

THIS. Even if your child does not actually spew diarrhea into the pool water, his body will still be shedding the virus and yes, he's going to contaminate the water. Don't assume that the chlorination is really adequate to protect everyone -- it isn't. Don't try to fool yourself into believing "It's probably from something he ate and not a virus so he's fine for the pool!" Just keep him home as long as the pool rules require. Be a parent who can say no to your kid. Be a parent who can deal with occupying a kid another way other than caving in and letting him go near the pool too soon.

[Anonymous]

I mean if I kid "has to do diarrhea," the kid has to do diarrhea!

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5KTj3I15yg

[Anonymous]

Don't drink the water!

[Anonymous]

Too much chlorine in water kills diarrhea bugs, cures eczema, bleaches skin and bleaches fecal matter.

Stay home and do diarrhea for the water can sting sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to think that was a silly rule. However, some had diarrhea in a path all the way from the pool to the ladies room at Overlee pool a few weeks ago. It was utterly disgusting. So please don't take your sick kid to the pool at least until a normal stool is present.

Omg that is beyond disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you for real, OP? The ban is to protect othe pool goers, not your kid. Diarrhea will contaminate the water and sicken others.

+1

You're the reason people get all sorts of new illnesses right after the pools open. You suck.

Actually, the reason is probably that most people don't follow the rule to shower before they enter the pool. EVERYONE is supposed to do that, even well people. Most people don't. It's totally gross. But it is not OP's fault.

So the people catching the stomach bug from the pool got it from the healthy person who didn't shower, not OP's kid who just had it the day before?

Even if he showers I'm not convinced he'd do a great job getting all of that fecal matter off.

Um, yes, quite possibly. If you ingest the fecal matter of a "well" person it can make you sick.

And all of you posters saying that you "shed" the virus for weeks...you understand that you shed it in your poop, right? You are not just walking around with virus falling off of you. That is why Careful showering is so effective.