Dead slug in the padding pool. Still ok for kids to use?

[Snowflakes1122]

Spent the last two hours filling DCs padding pool. Just been to check on how it’s going, only to find a dead slug at the bottom of it 🤢

As gross as it is, my gut says it is still ok for them to go in - what do you guys think?

It's fine

Just fish it out and don't tell them about it 😉

Take it out. It will be fine.

I don’t think a slug would poison the water exactly…

I’d probably take the slug out. But otherwise it’s fine.

Fish it out and you're good to go.

Ugh you'll fish it out though surely 😳

There's a lot worse in the average stream where you'd go paddling.

How did we get to a state where a grown adult thinks a slug is posionous to kids? I mean it mightake the pool a teeny tiny bit more slippy but come on OP, slugs are not poisonous.

I wouldn't even think twice about this. I'd just remove it and carry on. Our pool is always full of beasties by the end of the day anyway.

Ha ha. Of course it's ok. They've probably played with or eaten worse while you weren't looking.

Hook it out before the kids either eat it or wee on it

What threat do you actually think a dead slug is going to pose to your children?

They can be if ingested, to be fair.

I would drain and wash before use. No, I don't like the thought of parasite in slug on my child's skin, let alone inside. But I'm phobic to slugs/snails.

Actually no, it’s not ok. One of the side effects of global warming is that the parasite which causes rat lungworm is now prevalent in the U.K. The parasite eggs vector is the slime on slugs and snails. It’s microscopic. If it gets into a human (by mouth or nose), it causes brain worms and can kill. A man in Australia recently died because he ate a slug on a dare. (It’s there too). A woman in the U.K. recently caught it from eating a salad that hadn’t been properly washed. The parasite also causes lungworm in Hedgehogs…natural predators of slugs… and lungworm is decimating our hedgehogs right now.

So no, it’s not fine anymore. You need to empty the paddling pool, scrub it and refill it.

Fine assuming you've removed the slug ( probably fine anyway but I wouldn't want my kids stepping on it).

Haven't slugs always potentially caused lungworm in hedgehogs? I didn't think that was a recent thing?

Not unless you want the kids to turn into slugs!

Wow

homeguides.sfgate.com/slugs-poisonous-humans-86751.html

Do they swim in the sea?

I get a bit worried about slugs after reading about a young lad who ate one for a dare and died.

@Discovereads gobsmacked!

i would have just thrown it out of the pool..

This! I just watched a clip about this the other day, poor guy ate the slug as a dare and ended up being disabled from a rare of meningitis due to the lungworm parasite and sadly passed away. Was so shocking and tragic!