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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The way I have been coughing I am frightened to swim.. I doubt I could breathe properly...:(
Hope you feel better soon - I had a whopper of a cough just after Thanksgiving. I felt like it would never go away, but it did . . . in the meantime, you could try backstroke. ;) I started as a backstroker because I didn't like to put my face in the water (we need a blushing/embarassed smiley).
The way I have been coughing I am frightened to swim.. I doubt I could breathe properly...:(
Hope you feel better soon - I had a whopper of a cough just after Thanksgiving. I felt like it would never go away, but it did . . . in the meantime, you could try backstroke. ;) I started as a backstroker because I didn't like to put my face in the water (we need a blushing/embarassed smiley).
