H1N1 & Swimming

[san76]

Hi hi,


Me still let my son attend his swimming. It will strength him even though the bug is around. The virus is airborned. Think of it will be more scary when travelling in the packed MRT and all public transport to work and back from work.

The water is disinfected as it contained chlorine and after that, just shower him with dettol soap.

I think it is still safe.

[amylqf]

swimming shouldn’t be a problem.

[bubblesnsplashes]

Hi parents,


I am hanging around the pool everyday.

Stopping the swimming class is one of the immediate response due to the concern about the H1N1 virus. From my experience, majority of the parents are still carrying on with classes. As parents, everyone is definitely concerned about their little ones getting the virus and will try to protect them.

The chlorine does kill germs but it is not immediate. If it is so deadly, imagine what is it doing to our skin and body?

In my opinion, the virus will still be here for the next few years at least. How are we to prevent it from spreading when there could be no symptoms when it is spreading? Even if we isolate our kids from these crowded places, they still need to go to schools and interact with much more kids. When we go out and eat outside, there could also be germs left on the tables by the previous guy before us. How are we to prevent it? As adults, we go out and work and also interact with many more other people, and we can end up being the person who spread it to our little ones even though we keep them from these crowded places. I think if we keep thinking about all these, we will end up being paranoid about alot of things.

The health ministry probably understand these also and thus had been stressing that the virus is relatively mild to assure everyone. There is probably not many ways to eradicate it at the moment and it is a blessing that fatality rate is not that high. H1N1 could possibly become just another common flu strain that we have in the future.

My suggestion would be to keep the kids away from classes if they are sick and try to maintain a high level of hygience. As coaches, we also will monitor and situation and the guidelines from the health ministry and sports council.

[ChiefKiasu]

Anyway… doesn’t regular swimming build up stamina and better resistance to viruses? Stopping it due to the H1N1 scare may be counter productive.

[acforfamily]

ChiefKiasu:

Anyway... doesn't regular swimming build up stamina and better resistance to viruses? Stopping it due to the H1N1 scare may be counter productive.

You're right, unfortunately, my kid seems to catch a cold quite often after swimming. So I am in a dilemma whether to send him swimming in this \"climate\".

[san76]

acforfamily:

ChiefKiasu:

Anyway... doesn't regular swimming build up stamina and better resistance to viruses? Stopping it due to the H1N1 scare may be counter productive.

You're right, unfortunately, my kid seems to catch a cold quite often after swimming. So I am in a dilemma whether to send him swimming in this \"climate\".

Hi,

There are many factors that causing the kid to catch a cold after swim. This is alway a way that the body will build up the immune system to adapt.

What time did you send your kids for swimming? Did you shower them immediately after swim? Drying their hair and keeping them away from aircon at least for 30mins after shower.

Try swimming at different hour and shorter to 1hr 30mins at most.

good luck.

[nmhmum]

Hi acforfamily,


My son always catch a cold after his swimming lesson. Initially I thought that it is due to low immunity, but after checking with my GP, she told me my son’s one actually is not catch a cold… He is actually having a very sensitive nose, that why look like he is catching a cold, but actually it is not. Maybe you would like to check with your GP on your child’s case?

[acforfamily]

Hi thanks for your suggestions and advice . Will certainly do something about it .