To be pissed off at catching lurgy at the pool?

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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?

I was prescribed clotrimazole cream for breast thrush whilst bfing - this is also used to treat athlete's foot. Your summation of not being able to treat your athlete's foot whilst bfing is clearly misinformed!

And I'd hardly call athlete's foot 'lurgy' - I thought you'd caught noro or something from the title!

I got a verruca on my foot when I was 9 in a filthy school swimming pool. I still have it at 23. It fucking refuses to leave!

As an aside, swim nappies, like any nappies, can and do leak.

For some reason, one of my sons always pooed excessively after getting in the pool. There was one particularly bad case of leakage. The pool was closed for 2 hours to get it cleaned .

Listening to other people getting changed and then muttering about "why has the pool been shut?" whilst I'm locked in the cubicle wiping down a shitty one year old. Cringe. I never went back. Ever. The shame!

Althlete's foot is a PITA but as others have said, there must be some way you can treat it before you finish b/f??

lol, what a fuss some people make, the chemiacals in the pool kill of any nasties, i'm sure you all drink tap water and bath in it? most water has contained, poo, puke, bodily fluid etc before it was treated and sent back to your taps.

Your more likely to get athletes foot from not drying your feet properly when you come out of the pool.

You can use certain treatments whils breastfeeding. The scholl spray is one iirc. Check the labels.

I learned to scuba dive in a swimming pool. The mask magnifies everything in the water and you can see everything really clearly because there is no chlorine in your eyes. It was truly worthy!

Agree you are much more likely to have developed thrush by not drying your feet properly after swimming, it's really hard to do it in the changing area as the floor is wet so you stand on one foot, get the other dry enough to get your sock on then stick it in your shoe and do the other one. Athletes foot is a fungus (candida) which is present pretty much all over the place, it's only when it meets the right conditions that it flourishes (warm wet enclosed space) and when your normal skin bacteria are reduced, like when they have all been nuked by the chlorine in the pool.......
Swimming pools are revolting though when you think about it, which is why I try not to think about it!

WEar flip flops.

£0.99 at Tesco.

Problem solved.

Oh yes, YABU and OTT about something that has always happened, and will always happen; it's athlete's foot, not hepatitis!

What ridiculously ignorant medical person told you you can't treat AF while breastfeeding?! Of course you can. Just as you can treat yourself for thrush. Just use Canesten or Daktarin (clotrimazole and miconazole nitrate). And keep your feet dry. And wear flip flops. And breathe.

Are pools really that dirty compared to other public places, think about how much potential bodily fluids and other stuff you could be coming into contact with every time you push a lift button, use the handrail on an escalator, touch the door handle in a public toilet etc. If you have a normally functioning immune system then there is a very small chance of you coming to any real harm and athletes foot is annoying but you could develop it without ever having gone to a pool so how do you know the pool is to blame?

And most of that "dirty" stuff is good for our immune systems, anyway. We evolved to deal with it.

Anywhere that people walk around with bare feet will possibly give you verucas or other similar things. It happens in spas too. My daughter had about 3 verucas from going swimming at school but they've gone now. Some people don't even know they've got them - that's the problem.

Eh? startail you were bf your 6yo?

Yes, I know IWBU! I was just in a huff when I typed I guess! Dunno why a little bit of foot fungus got me riled, but that changing room floor is pretty grim, so I just assumed that's where I picked it up (quite possibly wrongly).

Thanks to COCKadoodledoo Procrastinate and dearth for the treatment suggestions, I'd asked two separate pharmacists and all they suggested was Lamisil, the useless gits! (which you can't use while bf).

LostMyIdentity please let's not get into an EBF debate... Each to their own eh?