I would be interested in your collective thoughts on swimming with a cold, the flu, or worse. Two issues to consider...
1.) Exercise helps stimulate the body and may help with overcoming the illness, or at least it's symptoms. I'm not a doctor, so some feedback on this would be appreciated.
2.) As noted in another thread, what about your fellow swimmers, are you putting them at risk and possibly spreading whatever it is you have as we all gasp the same air at the end of the lanes? Again, not being a doctor, I would be interested in thoughts on how real (or imagined) this risk may be.
Happy New Year!
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I have always swam unless I was severly under the weather (usually a stomach flu).
Donna
Yeah that knocked the stuffing out of me this weekend. Although it was mild food poisioning...similar symptomns. Unless you're coughing and spluttering you're porbably OK. I was debating today and decided to go but my pool is closed. However, I now feel a bit weary again so perhaps it is better I rested more.
I must say since swimming (Oct) I really haven't been too ill at all; a sniffle or two but nothing beyond a runny nose for a day or so.
I have always swam unless I was severly under the weather (usually a stomach flu).
Donna
Yeah that knocked the stuffing out of me this weekend. Although it was mild food poisioning...similar symptomns. Unless you're coughing and spluttering you're porbably OK. I was debating today and decided to go but my pool is closed. However, I now feel a bit weary again so perhaps it is better I rested more.
I must say since swimming (Oct) I really haven't been too ill at all; a sniffle or two but nothing beyond a runny nose for a day or so.
