Poo in the pool

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On holiday in Italy at the moment. On Saturday, took toddler to the kids paddling pool to find major incident unfolding. Appears a three year old has done a poo in the pool. Luckily relatively solid, however he seems to have been left uninterrupted to complete the full act. And several logs, soon to be multiple tiny little pea sized prizes, are floating and sinking across the mini pool and grills around it. The dad notifies the life guard and then gathers a kids bucket and net and attempts to scoop tiny pieces out. The mum is picking up bits from the grills around the pool with a tissue. In the end the dad uses his toes to poke the last visible bits through the grills into the filters. Lifeguard has a look of misery on his face as he connects his pool floor hoover and lamely shuffles it around for a bit before heading back to his post.

I am not naive. I expect wee in a kiddies pool. Also the odd little turd which escapes with a pop can be forgiven for little ones. A full dump is another matter and he should have been in a swim nappy with a potty nearby- but that's beside the point...

I wouldn't let my little one in the pool during the aftermath and we spent the afternoon in the grown up pool.

Now, this coming Saturday, 6 days later- my DH said I should just let toddler play in the kiddies pool but I just can't bring myself to let him. Admit can't see anything noticeable in there now but all I can picture is the poo in the filters and grills with all the water being recycled running past it. He's perfectly happy in the big pool. Aibu to put my foot down?

Should probably add that the pool is about five metres across, so not very big.

I will be totally clean 6 days later

Where are you staying! Code brown, in our days of Holiday Villages, would mean a pool shut down and chlorine bomb! Even the big pool - out of use until clean again.

Hmmm I live abroad and we have over 12 pools on our urbanisation. If there is a dreaded poo situation which generally there is every summer, that pool gets taped off immediately and has to be cleaned properly before re-opening. It's usually cleaned immediately as we have to inform security who contact pool maintenance. However it then usually remains closed until the next day when it's had its routine morning clean.
So two cleans before being opened.
It's gross and people need to keep an eye on their little children and make sure they are wearing swim nappies and regularly change them!

My husband is a pool plant engineer, he says it will have been considered clean quite quickly and that in any case there is a "safe" level of TDS (total dissolved solids) allowed in swimming pools.
So whenever and wherever you are swimming there is always dead skin cells, a bit of poo etc and the chlorine and other chemicals make it safe.
I personally haven't swam since I read one of his training update manuals, I know it is perfectly safe but just a bit gross for me.

What?
I think the pool should have been cleaned properly - major hygiene issue!
No way would I let a toddler play in that cesspit ... does the water have the distinctive chlorine smell? Is the lifeguard testing water samples for all pools regularly??

Also, the chlorine smell is caused by the chlorine reacting with contaminants the stronger the smell the harder it is working.
A clean pool has less chlorine smell.

Thank you for all the responses. Very helpful to have that information regarding best practices and normal protocols. I think I might ask at reception or the manager if I seem him around how often the filters are cleaned/chlorine topped up and it might sway me if it's been maintained in-between.