Yeast Infections and Swimming Pools
A patron recently was concerned about the pool chlorine level because they had been swimming and had a yeast infection. It is important for everyone to know that you can not get a yeast infection from pool water and that if you have a yeast infection that swimming is completely safe for you and all other swimmers. When you think about public swimming pools you can start to get squeamish if you think about the body fluids and other substances that are likely present. Snot seems to flow from many noses, people spit, and there is no such thing as a chemical that is added to pools that turns red when someone pees in the pool. But a properly chlorinated (or – “disinfected” since chlorine is not the only sanitizer used in the pool and spa industry) pool will kill most bacteria within just hundredths of a second. The sand filters we use filter to just a few microns.
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