Well, we only got to swim about 700 meters tonight before we got kicked out of the pool. Lightning? Noooo..... While we were swimming they were teaching lessons on one side of the pool. Apparently some kid threw up into the pool. They made everyone get out. The manager said that any time they have "liquid fecal matter or vomit" they have to super-chlorinate the pool.
It reminded me of a time a few years ago when I went to a local Y for their annual 100 100s on 100 seconds. We were going to start at 9:00pm on a Friday night. At about 8:30pm, a kid threw up in the pool. The Y people were trying to tell us that we might not be able to swim. One of the Masters swimmers, a doctor, kept saying, "But vomit is sterile!"
I tried to use that argument tonight but it didn't work...
What is the policy at your pool?
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From what I've observeed, little kids usually throw up because they're crying so hard, not because they're sick. Where my daughter takes lessons(a university pool) the guards scoop out the vomit and lessons go on without interruption. It's worked great for years.
This summer, unfortuntately, the filter system got knocked out over a weekend and the kids were swimming in what looked and smelled like pond water - we parents were assured it was adequately chlorinated. A week later, the pool was closed because over 60 kids got sick - giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis and norovirus. Connected to the filter issue? I don't know. Fortunately for us, neither my daughter nor I got sick - but the little kids who still swallow a mouthful here and there...
From what I've observeed, little kids usually throw up because they're crying so hard, not because they're sick. Where my daughter takes lessons(a university pool) the guards scoop out the vomit and lessons go on without interruption. It's worked great for years.
This summer, unfortuntately, the filter system got knocked out over a weekend and the kids were swimming in what looked and smelled like pond water - we parents were assured it was adequately chlorinated. A week later, the pool was closed because over 60 kids got sick - giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis and norovirus. Connected to the filter issue? I don't know. Fortunately for us, neither my daughter nor I got sick - but the little kids who still swallow a mouthful here and there...
