Vomit and swimming pool

[Dunnoburt]

I have severe emetophobia so maybe iabu but I wanted to know if I should mention something to the sports centre. Swimming lessons this morning and a child vomited profusely on poolside, not directly in the water as they had managed to get out. The lifeguard proceeded to get the scoopy thing and took water from the swimming pool and tipped it over the sick to wash it down into the outside overflowey bit right on the edge of the pool. Surely that's a health hazard? And potentially infecting everyone due to swim that day, filters or not! Like I said I'm severely emetophobic and a bit invested as my child was in the pool so dont know if im overreacting- the child was sick two more times that i saw outside the centre (poor kid) so i suspect bug rather than water ingestion - should I say something to the sports centre, maybe education required? Ive googled it and chlorine does not immediately kill norovirus. Prepared to be told iabu.

Absolutely! 💯 agree, it's the reason I dont wear goggles anymore....however, none of the above tend to be quite obviously "contagious"

And actually, none of the above bother me....its the visible snot floating about that makes me yak!

Vomit is food and drink plus a bit of stomach acid and the pool is full of chlorine so it wouldn’t bother me that much. Swimming pools have a high level of exposure to bodily fluids because of their very nature - snot, dribble, sweat and wee all go in there.

(And possibly a stomach bug) Again, none of the above are obviously contagious. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.

You've reminded me of the time some kid chucked up on the edge of the pool while waiting to go in for his lesson and the teacher just got a bucket of water and sloshed it into the drain on the side. He was about to let the kid into the lesson when someone called out from the viewing area that perhaps it wasn't a great idea and could the parent collect their child instead. I asked at reception afterwards and they did not see the issue at all - even though there was something in the T&C about not going to lessons for 24 or 48 hours after V&D but two minutes after was clearly no big deal to anyone except me and the lady who called it out from the poolside.

I'm being thick here but why does this mean you dont wear goggles any longer?

So I cant see the snot, toe jam and belly button fluff so clearly 😂 gods honest truth!

Sounds like a similar situation..... only they washed it into the pool overflow to be recycled back. It's absolutely crazy, and if my childs lesson hadnt been minutes from finishing i would have definitely signalled her to get out! So far in the polls I'm not being unreasonable......we are not alone but only at speaking up apparently......who's going to pay for my days off work if (touching everything) my kid has got something from it? (So far so good but again that's my phobia kicking in)