missing a week of the pool to do diarrhea

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Dying here.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Keep your disease vector at home.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

There is a pretty awful stomach flue going around and one of my friends insists that he got it from the pool.

[Anonymous]

Sick kids should stay home. That said, if your child is a tween or a teen (the forum you are posting in) and thus can be depended on to wash himself carefully, I would be OK letting him go to the pool 24 hours after his last diarrhea episode assuming he actually follows the rule to shower (i.e., wash his butt) before he goes.

If he is still actually having diarrhea on the 4th, no, he has to stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Why do you shower before pool if you are not sick etc. I never understood that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you shower before pool if you are not sick etc. I never understood that.

I always shower at home before going to the pool. I hate public showers. When people see me there they might assume I didn't shower, but I did just not at the pool. The reason is that you wash off the basteria form your body of course. Pool chemicals can only do so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Our pool is 2 weeks so be glad you're only banned for one week.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you shower before pool if you are not sick etc. I never understood that.

To get all the dirt, sweat, and dead skin off of your body. You are rinsing off in order to help keep the water clean.

As a swimmer, I wish that rule got enforced more at public pools where the water is often disgusting.