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.
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Sometimes I feel sorta lazy, try to figure out if I have a cold or not. Usually going to the swimming practice will be better than not. I don't think swimming will make any health condition worse. Couple of thoughts: viruses are transmitted almost entirely by mouth-hand, hand-hand, and then hand-mouth again. The actual air-air transmission is pretty rare unless you breathe into a sneeze. So I wouldn't worry about getting a virus in a swimming pool environment or transmitting a virus same way. Healthy 2007! billy fanstone
Sometimes I feel sorta lazy, try to figure out if I have a cold or not. Usually going to the swimming practice will be better than not. I don't think swimming will make any health condition worse. Couple of thoughts: viruses are transmitted almost entirely by mouth-hand, hand-hand, and then hand-mouth again. The actual air-air transmission is pretty rare unless you breathe into a sneeze. So I wouldn't worry about getting a virus in a swimming pool environment or transmitting a virus same way. Healthy 2007! billy fanstone
