H1N1 & Swimming

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:46:33 GMT

acforfamily — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:46:33 GMT

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

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:53:02 GMT

nmhmum — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:53:02 GMT

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?

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:43:57 GMT

san76 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:43:57 GMT

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.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:29:13 GMT

acforfamily — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:29:13 GMT

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\".

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:16:44 GMT

ChiefKiasu — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:16:44 GMT

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

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:40:54 GMT

bubblesnsplashes — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:40:54 GMT

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.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:57:05 GMT

amylqf — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:57:05 GMT

swimming shouldn’t be a problem.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:47:02 GMT

san76 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:47:02 GMT

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.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:58:48 GMT

belinda — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:58:48 GMT

Fairy:
Wonder if it is ok to carry on attending swimming lessons? Parents, will you stop your children's swimming lessons temporarily? The public pools are usually very crowded during weekends. Wonder if there is increase risk of getting the flu bug there.

I am stopping my girl from swimming classes temporary cos is really crowded at the public pool during weekend. esp now some who caught the flu do not have obvious symptons and carry on with their usual life plus there are many irresponsible pple.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:22:06 GMT

sunflower — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:22:06 GMT

lizawa:
A side question. What preventive measures are your childrens' schools taking to avoid spread of H1N1 within the school compound.

In my daughter's school, they set up a 2nd \"canteen\", to separate the students during recess. And also stagger the recess time, so that not all the students are queuing at the foodstalls at the same time.

My daughter's school had the students' temp. taken and those with higher than 37.6 deg and with cough/sore-throat are asked to go home straight away. The school staggers recess time for different classes and cancels all CCAs. Students go straight to class, no more assembly.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:28:32 GMT

IJJ — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:28:32 GMT

Fairy:
IJJ:
I am suspending mine for a month. She is asthmatic, better safe than sorry.

Hi,
Does your kid's swimming instructor allow you to suspend lessons or do you still have to pay for the lessons?

Mine did not ask me to pay.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:56:28 GMT

MdmKS — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:56:28 GMT

lizawa:
MdmKS:
How about enrichment class? Will you keep yoiur child away from it for at least 7 days? Heard one popular enrichment centre has two confirm cases during the last week of school holiday.

I think those who have been to infected countries, should stay away from the enrichment center for 7 days. but not sure if the enrichment centers can do make up or refund.

I only know Hans Language Centre wrote to parents to make this offer of fee adjustment. The rest seem to do nothing but to keep a copy of homework for the kids when enquiry or just paste a notice advice them not to come.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:57:41 GMT

lizawa — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:57:41 GMT

MdmKS:
How about enrichment class? Will you keep yoiur child away from it for at least 7 days? Heard one popular enrichment centre has two confirm cases during the last week of school holiday.

I think those who have been to infected countries, should stay away from the enrichment center for 7 days. but not sure if the enrichment centers can do make up or refund.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:32:45 GMT

MdmKS — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:32:45 GMT

How about enrichment class? Will you keep yoiur child away from it for at least 7 days? Heard one popular enrichment centre has two confirm cases during the last week of school holiday.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:38 GMT

lizawa — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:38 GMT

A side question. What preventive measures are your childrens’ schools taking to avoid spread of H1N1 within the school compound.

In my daughter’s school, they set up a 2nd "canteen", to separate the students during recess. And also stagger the recess time, so that not all the students are queuing at the foodstalls at the same time.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:09:32 GMT

acforfamily — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:09:32 GMT

I am suspending my kid’s swimming lessons too. Not sure that enough is known about the virus, so maybe chlorine will or will not kill it, better safe than sorry.

Then again, this is around for some time. So, how long can we sustain this?

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:03:04 GMT

Fairy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:03:04 GMT

IJJ:
I am suspending mine for a month. She is asthmatic, better safe than sorry.

Hi,
Does your kid's swimming instructor allow you to suspend lessons or do you still have to pay for the lessons?

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:47:50 GMT

lovecitylondon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:47:50 GMT

same here… heard that chlorine ‘kills’ the bacteria and germs, not sure whether that is really true? Last week’s swim class was totally empty, except for the instructor. Only I am stupid enough to bring my son there.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:17 GMT

KingRascal — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:17 GMT

I was once told that chlorine in the water would have made it difficult for the virus to survive. Not sure if this is true. Anyone with medical background to advise?

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:55:35 GMT

IJJ — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:55:35 GMT

I am suspending mine for a month. She is asthmatic, better safe than sorry.

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:58:22 GMT

hmsg — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:58:22 GMT

My children’s swimming classes were cancelled over the weekend… so I think better to be safe than subsequently inconvenience…

Reply to H1N1 & Swimming on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:17:23 GMT

sunflower — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:17:23 GMT

I’m not sure but I’ve since tried to avoid crowded places such as swimming pools and playgrounds, esp those huge indoor playgrounds…but quite difficult to avoid shopping on weekends (crowded places and enclosed somemore).

Hmm…actually, if a child is not feeling well (coughing, running nose etc) or having fever, I guess most parents wldn’t let them go swimming. Maybe it cld be quite safe after all?..