Has swimming pool given DD a bad tummy?

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I am starting to think that DD has a bad tummy from going swimming yesterday. She is BF and I know some of the water went into her mouth. She has had 3 poos already today and the last one looked like lemon curd with the same kinda jelly texture as lemon curd. Anyone think this could be possible?

Many moons ago now I used to work in the Scientic Advisers Department of my local county council and I used to type up the swimming pool reports following water analysis for one of the county's environmental health officers and I can assure you swimming pools are full of some pretty hideous germs, many of whcih can be resistant to the usual standard chemical treatments. It often takes several rounds of ananysis, following treatment with increased levels of chemicals, to determine that and before it is advised that the pool is drained.

What I heard scared me and put me off so much that I vowed that I would never take any little baby I had swimming, and would not take a child swimming until I thought it had an immune system that was quite well-developed - and I never did.

My DS is now 10 and a vey strong swimmer although he never really started swimming regularly until he was about 5.

The younger the child the more water they seem to end up swallowing. Ugghhhh, it doesn't bear thinking about

OMG thanks for that. I guess its possible then. Perhaps not going back to that pool.

My twins and I contracted cryptosporidium (a protozoa!!) from the pool in our v expensive health club! My twins were off schol for 2 weeks with awful, awful diarrhoea and vomiting. Long story but health club said it was just one of those things as someone had travelled abroad and brought back the bug to the pool and chlorine etc doesn't kill it. They had environmental health involved and other members of the club got it too.

It was horrendous and we've only swum twice anywhere since then and left the club soon after.

So yes, it's perfectly possible that despite chlorine etc, your daughetr could have picked this up or any other nasties and I'm really sorry if that's the case.

BTW you need at least 2 stool samples to find cryptosporidium and even then it may not turn up in that sample but you can still have it. You can then go on to infect anyone else you have close contact with and also in the family home. Hope it's NOT this!

Beginning to wish I hadn't asked.
Since my post earlier she hasn't had anymore bad nappies but I am considering telling the pool.

Have emailed the pool.

my Dd had a habit of swallowing pool water when she was learning to swim. For about 6 holidays in a row she was violently sick after using the pool in whaever hotel we were staying in. Didn't happen in local council leisure centre pool. Put it down to new germs and not such strict rules.

Solo2 it sounds to me as if the pool at that health club wasn't up to scratch with having water samples routinely analysed.

I don't think that people are aware just how resistant to routine chemical treatments some gersm are. I certainly didn't before I did that job with the Scientific Advisors Department and I was quite gobsmacked.

In fact, school swimming pools were usually the worst germ-filled pools of all.