As the summer swim season starts Memorial Day weekend, water quality and health experts have a message for swimmers: Please don't pee in the pool.And remember, if you pee in the pool, you have to swim in it, too.
Although urine in the water probably will not cause swimmers to go to the emergency room, it causes "more of a respiratory, ocular irritation: the red puffy eyes or a cough, an itchy throat," said Michele Hlavsa, an epidemiologist in the division of parasitic diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."A big health message is not to urinate or pee in the water."
Pool Etiquette
-Don't swim when you have diarrhea
-Avoid swallowing pool water
-Shower before swimming
-Wash your hands after using toilet or changing diapers
-Take children on bathroom breaks or check diapers often
-Change diapers in bathroom and not at poolside
Here are tips to make sure the pool is clean:
• Look at the pool to see whether it's clean and clear, and the drain is visible.
• Listen for pool equipment, because the pool pumps and filters should make noise.
• Feel the tiles and pool sides. They should not be sticky or slippery.
• Beware of a strong chemical odor. A well-chlorinated pool has little odor.
• Look at the pool to see whether it's clean and clear, and the drain is visible.
• Listen for pool equipment, because the pool pumps and filters should make noise.
• Feel the tiles and pool sides. They should not be sticky or slippery.
• Beware of a strong chemical odor. A well-chlorinated pool has little odor.
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