to think this little girl shouldn't've been in the swimming pool

[Aldrin]

In the local authority pool this afternoon there was a little girl (6 or 7), with pustules all over her arms. Saw her standing up and squeezing one, it burst, pus came out - her dad swam towards her and said

"do you want me to do that?"

She shook her head and kept squeezing. Standing in the pool!

I know the chlorine would kill most nasties but it just made me feel ergh

Bleurgh!

Ewwww!

Did you stay in the pool??

Molluscum? I never managed to get a straight answer on whether you should swim with molluscum or not.

That is fucking disgusting.
I'd have told a lifeguard then complained at front desk.

Yuck

Uerrrk.

Sounds like it could have been molluscum contagiosum. The name tells the story.

Did it look anything like [http://www.google.co.uk/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=molluscum%20contagiosum%20pictures&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=608this]] ?

Gross.

pustules? molluscum? or pox?

Second www.google.co.uk/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=molluscum%20contagiosum%20pictures&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=608try

i always blamed molluscs on the swimming pool.

Gah. Sorry, it's been a long weekend and it's still not over yet

YAB a bit U - not nice but may have been non-contagious lifelong condition. Bit sad that anyone goes ergh at a little girl. Mind you I did go ergh at the little boy who shat in the pool then got out a puked on the side. But was more when his mum washed the poo/sick off him and popped him back in pool!

thats just gross.

Fucking hell, Minxie.

I guess whether she should be swimming or not depends on what was causing the spots.

Should she have been squeezing them in the pool with her dad's encouragement? - no - bad for her and everyone else I should think.

did you say something Minxie?
How could you not!
vile.

go home and have a bath in bleach

I feel a little uncomfortable here. A little girl wouldnt have known any better, and I wouldnt have thought eugh, Id have thought, I hope she's ok, and glad she is enjoying herself. A tiny miniscule bit of pus would have got zapped by chlorine asap, and theres more veruccas/wee/other nasties than you can imagine.

I think life should be lovely for a little girl, and Im glad her dad took her swimming.

Yeah what her dad said was worse for me than what she was doing tbh. Kids scratch/pick/squeeze - I thought he would tell her to stop it, not offer to do it himself!

I assumed it was something non contagious or she wouldn't have been swimming but having seen those pictures...

No - I swam to other end of pool. I agree the chlorine will probably zap any nasties. Was an unpleasant moment in an otherwise lovely day!

If it was molloscum contagiosum you can still go swimming. It can take up to two years to get rid of it and there is no treatment.

I do think her dad should have told her not to do it though.

(I mean he could've taken her out of the pool for a minute and squeezed it somewhere more private if it needed squeezing for some reason - we were in the shallow end right by the changing cubicles and showers etc)

we will never know if it was contagious or not will we?
but even if it wasn't, i wouldn't want to see someone ( of any age ) squeezing pus into a swimming pool i had paid to get into.

You wouldn't normaly get a 7yr old boy standing pool side peeing into the pool, no at least most of them have the shame/decency to do it secretly.

im sure she would of had just as much fun doing something that avoided squeezing puss into a shared swimming pool.

although i have to add, its clearly not the girls fault, her father should be told this isn't acceptable.

How revolting