what are the viruses that you can in the swimming pool?

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I had white spot on my arm and it looks like mosquito bites!

Answer 1

Yes, the chlorine kills alot but not all. It does kill most bacteria but viruses are much more hardy than bacteria (but not all) and can live longer than bacteria.

First, HIV can not be gotten through pools. Though a hardy virus inside the body it is very, very weak outside the body. Once exposed to air, water, etc it dies almost instantly.

Yes, it was true that polio was thought to be spread through pools however, in the US, with vaccination, there has not been a case of polio in decades.

The most common virus you get in a pool now is coxsackie virus. This causes you to develop a low grade fever and blisters in your mouth, on your palms and soles. The blisters are very tiny, could hurt a little and resolve in a few days with no long term consequence whatsoever.

Pink eye from the pool is usually NOT from a virus it's from opening your eyes in the water and the chlorine irritating your cornea.

Ear infections from pools is NOT from bacteria or viruses in the pool it's usually an outer ear infection called swimmer ear. This is due to retained water in the ear (ever see people jumping up and down with their head held sideways after getting out of the pool to get the water out of their ear?). The retained water in the ear becomes a breeding ground for bacteria AFTER you get out of the pool and this causes an outer ear infection (outside your ear drum) that is treated with drops because the infection is technically outside your ear. Antibiotics are used for inner ear infections (infections behind your ear drum). Inner ear infections can't be causes from a pool unless you have a hole in your ear drum. If you wear nose plugs in the pool you might get an inner ear infection but it's not from the pool. Your sinues drain into your nose, your inner ear drains into your sinuses. If you have a small sinues infection brewing (that wouldn't normal arise into anything because your sinues drain into your nose) plugging your nose prevents your sinues from draining and this can back up into your inner ear causing an inner ear infection.

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Answer 3

I don't know about the answer of not being able to catch anything. Chlorine, doesn't kill everything. My son got an eye infection, and once an ear infection in a swimming pool.
His doctor told him, swimming pools are not sanitary, and I tend to agree. I'm sorry, but I won't get in one, and never would.
Back in the 1950's before the polio vaccine, they believed that was one of the ways people contracted the polio virus, ,although with the vaccines that has been wiped out. It depends if it is a private or public swimming pool also.

Answer 4

If you are having unprotected sex under the water, even chlorinated, then you might get contagious. In case that you go to the pool to swim, no way. The most you can get going to a public swimming pool is an itchy feet mycosis.

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what are the viruses that you can in the swimming pool?
I had white spot on my arm and it looks like mosquito bites!

Answer 6

There are MANY viruses that you can contract from a swimming pool. Pink Eye, Athletes Foot, Planter's Warts, etc.

ALWAYS, ALWAYS take a good hot/warm shower AFTER using a swimming pool!

Answer 7

Most pools have chlorine in them which controls bacteria. I don't think virus can live in that environment either. I'd rule out the pool.

Answer 8

Pools are chlorinated and the chlorine kills bacteria. So unless the chlorine was low, I doubt you can get anything.

Answer 9

Have you considered fungus? They are commonly "caught" in pools and hot tubs. Try an anti-fungal cream and if it clears up that's what it was. Very common condition.

Answer 10

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