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To be pissed off at catching lurgy at the pool?

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Tiddlyompompom · 09/03/2012 17:29

Am really fecking ticked off that I appear to have caught Athlete's Foot off the filthy floor of the changing room at the pool. It's only appeared since I started taking my son to the baby pool, and apparently I can't treat it until I stop breastfeeding, which could be months away! Grrrrrrrrrr!
They don't have one of those little sheepdip trays for disinfecting your feet like they used to when I was a kid, are we all supposed to take flipflops to the pool these days?
Am wondering if I should complain to the pool, or is that massively overreacting to a bit of foot fungus?

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CailinDana · 09/03/2012 17:30

Massively overreacting IMO. It's just one of those things, it's not life threatening and there's very little the pool staff can do about it. I don't think fungus is killed by anti-bacterial wash.

WorraLiberty · 09/03/2012 17:30

You can't prove to the pool that you didn't cause it yourself by not drying your feet properly.

The foot dip thing might be a general suggestion though.

HansieMom · 09/03/2012 17:32

I have read that if you pee on your feet while in the shower it will cure athletes foot. Might as well try it! Easier for a guy though.

NettoSuperstar · 09/03/2012 17:32

This is why I don't go to pools.
It's mingy, body fluid soup

Sarcalogos · 09/03/2012 17:33

Foot dips were proved to be spreading more disease than they prevented that's why they were removed.

By your logic... You wont be going back to the pool before you stop brestfeeding then... So you don't spread it?

theincredibequeenofwands · 09/03/2012 17:35

I'm still amazed that people to to pools.

Bits of skin, hair and other people's spit and piss goes ON YOUR FACE!

Athlete's foot could well be the least of your worries.

joyjac · 09/03/2012 17:39

Localised treatment is very unlikely to get in to your breastmilk in sufficient quantities to cause a problem with your baby.

HalfPastWine · 09/03/2012 17:40

Bits of skin, hair and other people's spit and piss goes ON YOUR FACE!

It's gross when you think of it like that but the chemicals they put in the water kill practically everything. That, along with a healthy immune system you should be ok !!!

Sparklingbrook · 09/03/2012 17:42

I believe the source of the DS's Molluscum Contagosium when they were little was the swimming baths. Sad

I don't like seeing plasters float past, or hairgrips on the bottom of the pool, but now they are old enough I don't go in the water. Grin

NettoSuperstar · 09/03/2012 17:43

Yes, because I don't mind guy's knob cheese on my face, just so long as the chemicals have killed it. Hmm

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Tiddlyompompom · 09/03/2012 17:44

Ha, ok, I was being a bit overly grumpy then! :)
Was going to wear flipflops or see if I should wear some sort of veruca sock thingy next time I go, ugh, it's gross isn't it...
Last time we went the teacher said "Don't worry if they're a bit snotty, there's worse in there" Shock

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QuintessentialyHollow · 09/03/2012 17:46

Actually, we should start a campaign against dirty pools.

They promote it as part of health and well being, but bloody Hacksaw, most are health hazards in their own right.

Lets name and shame filthy pools:

Guildford Spectrum - BOAK. Plasters floating around, and laying on the pool side, along with vegetable peel (WTF) and other goo.

Hopandaskip · 09/03/2012 17:49

soak your feet in vinegar while you watch TV. It takes quite a while to work but it does work and you can do it now.

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Tiddlyompompom · 09/03/2012 17:49

Vegetable peel???

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SquishyCinnamonSwirls · 09/03/2012 17:49

It could be worse, there could be a shit floating past you because some little one's swim nappy had a mishap. This actually happened and when I cleared the kids out and told the lifeguard chap he just shrugged. I went slightly mental at reception.

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Tiddlyompompom · 09/03/2012 17:50

Hop - thanks! Will try that first!

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HalfPastWine · 09/03/2012 17:56

Yes, because I don't mind guy's knob cheese on my face, just so long as the chemicals have killed it.

Glad I don't go to your local pool. Sounds lovely.

QuintessentialyHollow · 09/03/2012 17:57

Lol about swim nappies. I spent last weekend in a Marriot near the New Forest. The toddlers in the pool did not wear such a thing as swim nappies. They were under twos, enjoying pool time with mum and dad, in those Aussie style full body suits.

I heard one little girl tell her mummy: "Mum, I wee in the bubbles" (Jacuzzi)

At least the kids wore swim nappies in your pool.....

Sparklingbrook · 09/03/2012 17:59

I am not a fan of jacuzzis-you can't see what's in there. Plus I have personal space issues. Sad

whomovedmychocolate · 09/03/2012 18:00

Quint, IME everyone wees in the jacuzzi. I'm pretty sure without the farting and weeing it would be flat water Grin

startail · 09/03/2012 18:05

External athletes got stuff should be alright for BF. The oral one isn't.

I tried to explain that to DD2, she didn't listen and carried on BF regardless. She was about 6 and I concluded that one feed a day wasn't going to be the end of the world.

QuintessentialyHollow · 09/03/2012 18:06

Shhhhh...... Dont burst my bubble, whomoved, I am the type of person who goes to the loo several times during a trip to the pool/spa/jacuzzi, however I dont see anybody else leaving and reentering the pool... La la la....

Hopandaskip · 09/03/2012 18:07

swim nappies do nothing for pee anyway and communal jacuzzis are usually scuzzy and often dangerous anyway without the weeing.

oldraver · 09/03/2012 18:10

I use an outdoor pool and it is really really clean the cold kills off any nasties

Bartiimaeus · 09/03/2012 18:11

I swam in hundreds of pools when I was a child (swimming competitions). Never got a verruca or any other foot/skin infection and was never more ill than my non-swimming classmates, in fact I was rarely ill.

Yes pools are dirty when you think about it but it won't kill you (and I have before now swum in a murky green pool for about 5 minutes until they realised the filter system was going backwards (i.e. into pool not out of pool) and got the kids out. No-one got ill.)