Throw up Is in the Pool--keep on Swimming?

As a former lifeguard, we had to shut the pool down if there were visible bodily fluids or solids (blood, vomit, feces). We used to draw straws to see who got the job of scooping it out. Then we had to "super chlorinate" the water and it had to sit for a specific amount of time. I don't know if a saline pool is different, but personally I wouldn't get into the pool. I've heard too many statistics about illnesses traced back to pools and waterparks.

Here the public pools would close. They would scoop it out and then it would have to go through treatment.

More chlorine and then water would have to go through the filtering system.. I do not recall how many gallons per size of pool..

It takes a while for this process.

Our city pools and YMCA pools would close the pool due to fouling and treat with chemicals. I always thought that it was overkill, and wouldn't have been bothered if it had just been scooped out. I figure anything left behind would be very diluted.

I understand that saline (salt water) can be a very nice pool (my husband's cousin has one)...but I'm with our community pool where they kick everyone out for 2 hours (or more) and clean the pool. Ew and ew. Did I say ew? I think they are remiss here.

Nope, I'm outta there. Poop or puke.

I was at a hotel and this occurred and they treated the pool and closed it for 2 hours. That's beyond insane to expose the kids to a virus that way. I'd be looking for a new school IMHO.

heh. it's kind of a catch-22. they can scoop up the puke, and then super-treat it with toxic chemicals, which is what usually happens.
public pools are not for the faint of heart.
i'm surprised they DON'T shut it down and put it through the toxic whirl, though. i thought it was required.
khairete
S.

Yuck I wouldn't stay in there.
Even the ocean water... can be contaminated with bacteria etc., and it is not killed, just because it is in a free flowing ocean.
I live in the middle of an ocean of salt water.

I think I'm going to go throw up now, but NOT in a pool!

ick. I know it's diluted and the (gross) "chunks" get scooped out but still...
yicked out.

Yeah, not a fan. I know it depends on whether the kid just swallowed too much water or if it's from a virus. But still...

Your question makes me remember when I was about 8 years old and my mom took my brothers and I to the pool. ON the walk over we had had a fruit roll up to eat. Well, don't ya know...I swallow some water and yack fruit roll up in the pool. My mom gathers all our stuff to leave and this guy walks into the pool and dives RIGHT INTO MY PUKE!
Bleh.
I think that we don't know how many kids pee in the pool or if anyone has puked in it earlier or the day before. I just swim.
L.

That's disgusting! I would definitely challenge their reasoning on the policy!

I wouldn't swim in it or knowingly let my child swim in it.

In the past, at the pool where we would go when daughter was younger, the water was checked periodically during the day and if anything was off kilter, the pool was shut down until everything was correct again.

Although it is more than likely excess water from a kid swallowing too much, you never know if it is some virus you are exposing your family to.

Yuck.

I would check the laws in the area. I would think that is a health code violation... If it is I would report em!

I feel like I would go to a new pool.

the CDC has guidelines on what to do for pool contamination. For vomit stool and blood in the pool.... most times when kids vomit in the pool.. it is mostly swallowed water and poses no threat.. but you never know.. it might be the kids has a GI bug.

We have been at pool when kids pooped or puked in the pool. and they get everyone out of the water.

I can just barely stomach the idea of high school pools in general since I know that there are various bodily excretions in there. But that is just too obvious! No, gross!

On GP the pool should have closed to rest the minds of all. I am so surprised that those of you who run to the principal to tattle on teachers, no one has run to the principal on this.

Gross. My kids would be done with their lesson for the day and would not return until the pool was sufficiently cleaned!
A.