e Coli season rolls around

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1 in 5 kiddie/wading pools were closed—the highest proportion of closures among all inspected venues.

Dh and I are eligible for a whole bunch of activities at the senior center, being that age. I am fairly eager to take up on the free gym facilities, yoga classes, etc, all in the name of getting healthier for free, but pool privileges at the Y? Ummmm, no. Swim hours have been set aside for the seniors, with classes for activities aimed at folks over 55, but this is a pool that is infested in the summer with kids. It's a wonder that such a thing is encouraged, given the tendency for older folks to have weaker or compromised immune systems.

I read something not long ago regarding swimming pools, and that the only reason the chlorine in them burns the eyes is because of the urine in the pool. That was more than enough to make me swear off public pools forever.

Public pools of any kind nothing more than giant petri dishes. Most adults will get out of the water if they need to pee, but kids will just go and parents are too lazy to escort the kids to the bathroom, so they don't discourage pool pissing. Then you get the parents who insist on swimming with their loaves and wrap said loaves' asses in those damn swim diapers. Yeah, those things do not work and whatever fluids come out of the southern end of the loaf will wind up leaking into the pool. Nothin' says summer like having to wash some brat's diarrhea out of your hair at the community pool. And there are plenty of kids of all ages who puke in public pools and whatever underpaid schmuck is on deck babysitting all the little mistakes just scoops the vomit out of the water with a net. Yum yum.

No thanks, if I want E.coli, I'll take a dump and then floss without washing my hands. Swimming in a public pool is about the equivalent of rolling around in medical waste.

I work at a municipal swimming pool and am entitled to free swimming but I don't go near the water!

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Cambion
I read something not long ago regarding swimming pools, and that the only reason the chlorine in them burns the eyes is because of the urine in the pool. That was more than enough to make me swear off public pools forever.

I made the mistake of spraying the cat's litter box with bleach cleaner without at least hosing it a bit first. The fumes made me drop the box and back away. So basically, swimming pools are actually charged with not chlorine, but chloramine - a toxic substance.

When i was a kid, i went to the town pool. It took many hours, all day before my eye seven started to get sore from the water. I wouldn't have dreamed of peeing in the pool! As a kid, I got out of the water and went to the women's locker rooms. Lots of kids got out and used the bathrooms, then went back to the pool.

What is wrong with people today?? Peeing in the pool?? That is beyond disgusting!

I have been in maybe two pools since 1998. Zero regrets.

My physical condition means that I am restricted to the pool if I want to get some exercise. I am not quite in the wheelchair yet thank you very much although my body has longed for it. At least in my pool the brats tend to avoid the large pool because it is not as warm or shallow. I do not put my head in the water.

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Excuses!

craftyzits, the kiddies avoid the larger lap pool where I swim as well...partly because it's mostly not available to them a majority of the time, and partly because it's kept at lap temperature, not kiddie play temperature. Complaining parents are told to use the kid pool.

Does this make it perfectly sanitary? Nope. But no way would I set foot in that kid pool. Ewww. Better that we contain them there.

No, please no.....nobody let their rugrat's grubby germs e.coli-infested paws touch me or anything I touch.....I am STILL recovering from a nasty bout of salmonella thanks to some filthy restaurant in the city that didn't seem all that filthy until I started projectile vomiting 24 hours later. When I say recovering, I mean that antibiotics killed the bug months ago but my doctor said my innards are still really inflamed and giving me symptoms very similar to IBS. The last thing I need when I'm constantly battling nausea, pain and vertigo is a serving of some nasty brat's e.coli on top of that.

I think I'm just going to hide out in the basement till September.

It's not even kid pools, its public pools and spas in general, as the cesspool water is circulated throughout.

One of my best friends is a regular swimmer at the states most popular public pool, and a few weeks ago came down with an absolute shocker of skin infection, causing painful 1/2 inch sized legions over his body and even head.
He soon discovered that he got a nasty case of Pseudomonas folliculitis from the public pool, which took three types of heavy antibiotics for weeks to get rid of.

Basically it resides on infected skin and scabs, which mostly exists on the skin of elderly primarily, and the mucus products and urinary tracts of people. We all know that grubby rugrats and festering geriatrics love to marinate in public pools, hence why I don't swim in them.

I avoid public pools except when they're built near natural hot springs, because in those places the water is coming out constantly so they are built to flush away the old water regularly.

Otherwise, I'd rather swim in lakes or the ocean. They tend to be a lot less disgusting, even if the water appears less clear than the water in pools. After all, if the fish can continue to live in it, it must not be toxic to all living things...

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My physical condition means that I am restricted to the pool if I want to get some exercise. I am not quite in the wheelchair yet thank you very much although my body has longed for it. At least in my pool the brats tend to avoid the large pool because it is not as warm or shallow. I do not put my head in the water.

That's very unfortunate craftyzits, I wish there was a better source for you -- thermal springs, as Yurble noted, or facility for adults only.

For sure that it's because of pool season that these articles appear, but I'm all "oh fuck no. I don't care what the circumstances are." How freaking hard would it be for people to shower before getting into the pool? And refraining from pee - well, I guess since Olympians endorse the practice ...

That's not chlorine you smell

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I read something not long ago regarding swimming pools, and that the only reason the chlorine in them burns the eyes is because of the urine in the pool. That was more than enough to make me swear off public pools forever.

I made the mistake of spraying the cat's litter box with bleach cleaner without at least hosing it a bit first. The fumes made me drop the box and back away. So basically, swimming pools are actually charged with not chlorine, but chloramine - a toxic substance.

King of the Hill did an episode on this deadly mixture. Maybe it should be rerun as a PSA for not peeing in the pool. I tell you what......