crickit715
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the reasoning behind the chemical maintenance is ..... when kids are splashing around they tend to inhale lots of water and frequently they "choke or aspirate" on the water in a pool...as the water from the pool goes into their lungs so does any bacteria that may be growing in the water...a "normal" child could cough out the bacteria and go on from there, but the bacteria tends to stick to the mucus in the lungs of a cf child, grow and cause problems.
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>ymikhale</b></i>
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>crickit715</b></i>
our doc said to avoid pools not b/c of what is in them but around them (water that gets splashed out and just sits there)
my doc said swimming is fine in a pool as long as the chemicals are maintained....
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>hmw</b></i>
My daughter is almost 8 and we just found out this past fall she has CF. She is as girly as they come, *sometimes* ... but she also has two big brothers. So that means I have pictures by the dozen of her holding frogs and toads and digging in mud and looking for salamanders and newts and turtles... (not to mention she is my gardening buddy.) Pools? SWIMMING is a problem? I have been careful to keep her away from sick kids but this is a new one on me...
*A new one on me- and really intimidating; she doesn't have PA or any of those other nastier bugs but now I have no idea what I should or shouldn't do to keep it that way.
I wouldn't want any of my kids near any standing water (i.e. stagnant pond at the back of my property) but I've always thought of it in terms of mosquitoes and gross stuff like that, so at least I've never had her near there.</end quote></div></end quote></div></end quote></div>
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>ymikhale</b></i>
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>crickit715</b></i>
our doc said to avoid pools not b/c of what is in them but around them (water that gets splashed out and just sits there)
my doc said swimming is fine in a pool as long as the chemicals are maintained....
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>hmw</b></i>
My daughter is almost 8 and we just found out this past fall she has CF. She is as girly as they come, *sometimes* ... but she also has two big brothers. So that means I have pictures by the dozen of her holding frogs and toads and digging in mud and looking for salamanders and newts and turtles... (not to mention she is my gardening buddy.) Pools? SWIMMING is a problem? I have been careful to keep her away from sick kids but this is a new one on me...
*A new one on me- and really intimidating; she doesn't have PA or any of those other nastier bugs but now I have no idea what I should or shouldn't do to keep it that way.
I wouldn't want any of my kids near any standing water (i.e. stagnant pond at the back of my property) but I've always thought of it in terms of mosquitoes and gross stuff like that, so at least I've never had her near there.</end quote></div></end quote></div></end quote></div>