Swimming pool vomit

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My child hasn’t just had a swim lesson before the instructor noticed a pile of vomit and bits floating through the water she was swimming in.

I’m emetophobic so this has just ruined the next few days. My anxiety is sky high.

Has anyone been through anything similar and not gone on to catch something nasty??

She has just had. Not hasn’t 🙄

I would be the same as you and be panicking but also reminding myself that there is so much chlorine in swimming pools that any germs are obliterated!

Haven’t been through this, but am also an emetophobe so can sympathise. If it helps at all, when I was a child (in the 80s), I used to vomit during every swingle swimming lesson. They just used to follow behind me with a net (not envy).

So it may not be anything sinister. DC1 used to vomit after most of their swimming lessons too, due to the vast amounts of water swallowed.

Hope it’s nothing and your DD is fine.

I’m having CBT at the moment to try and improve my OCD/emetophobia. Worrying is one of the things I am trying to work on, but it’s SO HARD. You have my sympathy

I was in the pool with my dd when she was little for a swimming lesson when the wee boy next to us chucked up. Neither of us picked up anything as a result. They did clear the pool.
My dd recently found some faeces at the bottom of the local pool and again no ill after effects. They didn’t clear the pool while they fished the shit out though- maybe that’s the protocol, seemed a bit rank to me.

You should try the Rob Kelly Thrive programme if you're emetophobic. It works better for me than CBT ( although I think it is in fact CBT but the face-to-face CBT I've had hasn't been very good. I find myself need to keep redoing it but it does help a bit. Google it, I think you can buy the book on Amazon.

Don't worry. Chlorine kills any baddies in sick. The only thing chlorine doesn't clean is diarrhoea, then the pool needs to be closed and backwashed. Sick can just be scooped out, gross as it is.

Solid poo can also just be scooped out. They normally clear the pool though for poo and sick, just out of niceness, but it's not strictly necessary.
Bizarrely, I've just done a course on this.

Thank you for kind reassurances. I’ve had CBT previously for this. Counselling too. I have to day I’m managing quite well with support from understanding family. But incidents like this make me so fretful.

They’ve cleared the pool and closed it for the rest of the day. Cancelled loads of lessons.

Germ wise they don't need to (assuming chlorine is used) but they close because swimming through sick isn't particularly pleasant.

The chlorine is so strong that any germs will be obliterated, and as it doesn’t look like she made any contact with it then she’d be fine.
It would probably be a child who threw up from nerves/over exertion rather than illness (used to happen when I was a kid!) so unlikely to be a contagious bug anyway.

Diarrhoea has a parasite called cryptosporidium which chlorine doesn't kill.

My child found a poo floating in the local pool, he had no ill effects.

I’m emetophobic and would go into a tailspin too

But, chances are it’s just a result of a child choking/swallowing water than an infectious bug. That’s what I’d keep telling myself anyway.

Oh how grim op hopefully no ill effects though for your dd. Good luck with your therapy

Agree that this is likely to be a child choking rather than a bug. I sympathise!

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Thanks.

Yuck! I will never go to a public swimming pool again.

Some poos are more solid that others is all i’ll say -from the blow by blow report my dd gave of the fishing out process.