Disney area swimming pool health code violations

[Bella the Ball 360]

MiaSRN62,
I know you are a nurse what can you tell us about giardiasis, and shigellosis ?
My gf's daughter had giardiasis (I think cannot remember which one) and she has been sick with it off and on for quite a while. She got it from swimming in a lake.

I know when we were at V V last year they make us get out of the pool because some little kid had an accident in the pool. At that time the waterfall shut down and I do not know if it was on some sort of a sensor or what.

I have always been leary of swimming in pools and JUST got myself to do it a couple of years ago.

I wish there was some way they could enforce keeping kids in diapers out of the pool. Usually when I would see a baby come into the pool I would make my kids get out.

 

[MiaSRN62]

Giardiasis is a parasitic illness. The parasite lives in the intestines and can be passed via stool (thus most likely little kids having accidents in the pool). We in turn contract it by getting water into our mouths----ingested. Causes abdominal pain, nausea, fatigue, diarrhea and sometimes weight loss. Normally you'll show signs if you've become infected 1-2 weeks after the exposure. These symptoms can last 2-6 weeks ! It can be difficult to diagnose.....requiring stool samples and it can be treated. Pools, spas, lakes etc are prime places to pick it up. The parasite has a protective coating so it can live outside the body for periods of time.
Shigellosis is a bacteria that lives in the intestinal tract. Again, spread by someone who has it via food or water. Symptoms can include fever, diarrhea or blood in stool. Anitibiotics can be used to help cure severe cases, but usually extra fluids suffice. A friend of mine at work got shigellosis from eating contaminated food in our hospital cafeteria ! So the food worker obviously had it, didn't wash their hands before handling the food and my poor friend, Jan, got it bad. She was actually hospitalized for 3 or 4 days with IV fluids and antibiotics. Took her another almost 2 weeks to get back to normal. She's never eaten in the cafeteria again.
I hope all these resorts really shock their pools with chlorine since this report came out. I agree about keeping babies out of the pool.....or at least have them wear rubber pants.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Giardiasis is a parasitic illness. The parasite lives in the intestines and can be passed via stool (thus most likely little kids having accidents in the pool). We in turn contract it by getting water into our mouths----ingested. Causes abdominal pain, nausea, fatigue, diarrhea and sometimes weight loss. Normally you'll show signs if you've become infected 1-2 weeks after the exposure. These symptoms can last 2-6 weeks ! It can be difficult to diagnose.....requiring stool samples and it can be treated. Pools, spas, lakes etc are prime places to pick it up. The parasite has a protective coating so it can live outside the body for periods of time.
Shigellosis is a bacteria that lives in the intestinal tract. Again, spread by someone who has it via food or water. Symptoms can include fever, diarrhea or blood in stool. Anitibiotics can be used to help cure severe cases, but usually extra fluids suffice. A friend of mine at work got shigellosis from eating contaminated food in our hospital cafeteria ! So the food worker obviously had it, didn't wash their hands before handling the food and my poor friend, Jan, got it bad. She was actually hospitalized for 3 or 4 days with IV fluids and antibiotics. Took her another almost 2 weeks to get back to normal. She's never eaten in the cafeteria again.
I hope all these resorts really shock their pools with chlorine since this report came out. I agree about keeping babies out of the pool.....or at least have them wear rubber pants.

Thanks so much giardiasis is what my gf's daughter had. I knew it was a parasite. She suffered as you say for quite a long time with it and currently gets reoccurances of it. It was as you say very hard to diagnose. I always naively assumed that there was so much chlorine in these pools that it could never happen. After seeing what this girl went through I really have second thoughts about swimming in the pool. Can you get it in the ocean too?

 

[MiaSRN62]

Can you get it in the ocean too?

I would figure, yes, Bella. I know NJ beaches in my area have been closed for high colony counts of E-Coli (from fecal matter). So I'd assume since giardiasis and shigellosis come from essentially the same "source", it's very possible. But normally officials will close the the beaches (or at least the ability to swim) if the levels are too high.

 

[MImom]

Thanks so much for the info, really appreciate it.