Would you still take your DC swimming if they had a bad cough?

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DD is 12mo, she is due to go to swimming today with sure start but she has a really bad cough. She is okay otherwise and does not have a fever but the cough is like a hacking smokers cough IYSWIM, and she is a bit snotty also.

She really enjoys swimming but I'm not sure if I should take her, I dont want to expose her to anything else.

Personally, I would not take her but then that's just me.

Also you'd be exposing all the other kids to her germs in a moist, warm environment. I wouldn't.

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I find taking DS swimming when he has a cough really helps it - think its the moist air

I've got same prob with ds. He's not going today but been invited to a swimming party in a few days.
He's had horrid cold and cough so I won't be taking him. I don't like taking him swimming in winter for the heat in the changing rooms to the cold of outside iyswim?
Not sure if I'd risk it incase that cough turned into somewthing that needed to be medicated

No, what a silly idea.

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Thanks everyone, I don't think I will take her, I think if she is batter by the weekend I will get DH to take her then. I just don't feel happy taking her when she is like this, just not sure if it was me as TBH I really don't feel like going today either

Anna8888, what is a silly idea?

Obviously meant better not batter

DS1 has a chest condition and his Paed told me it was a great environment for him, as the humidity realy helps open the airways and with coughs.

DS2 has enlarged toncils and is coughing and I am still taking him swimming today. It is likley anything that they have this time of year is viral anyway.

I dont remember everything stopping when I have the sniffles as a child.

It's not that I want everything to stop when she has a cough or the sniffles, I am just not happy with potentially exposing her to anything else, while she is already coughing and snotty.

Do you really think I should take her?

I think that is your decision, but about exposing her to anything else, it is really hard to wrap them up in cotton wool.

Humid environment of swimming baths is FAB for coughs and asthma tbh.
ds1 is much better in the pool than out of it. dh(doctor) thoroughly recommends it.

If it's just a cough I would still go, only if she develops a temp or seems under the weather would I think about not going.

The pool enviroment is probably one of the least exposed places to go - its not like soft play where they are spreading snot and crud all over the toys, touching them, and then sticking their fingers in their mouths, and neither are they up in each others faces coughing.

The change in temperature can't do them any harm (assuming that you don't come out with no coat on !), and you won't change whether the cough turns into a chest infection either, although its most likely not to if she has a good cough and clears the mucus

No, she doesn't have a temperature and other than the cough and buckets full of snot, she is okay in her self, nit under the weather. She has just gotten over a chest infection.

I really don't want to wrap her up in cotton wool, but it is hard to know what to do for the best isn't it.

Her swimming slot isn't until half one so I will keep an eye on her and decide later on.

Thanks everyone.

Well DD has had a short nap but seems not to be coughing as much, so I am taking her swimming. If she starts up coughing again I can always leave early cant I.