How many honestly do this?

[shellybaxter]

Honestly, I've never even considered showering off before entering the pool. I thought the showers were for rinsing off the chemical water (not clorine at Disney -but bromine?) once you got out of the water. See I didn't grow up in pool country and just didn't even have a clue that pool showers were for before entering the water

 

[maxiesmom]

By the way, doctors STILL use leeches (they're used in wound care)

I thought that was magotts?

 

[twanner]

I swim and get in the hot tub (after rinsing off) and try not to think too hard about it. (cuz if I do, it will inevitably make me queasy!) I ALWAYS keep my mouth closed in the water and constantly remind my dd to do the same!

 

[twanner]

I thought that was magotts?

Leeches are used in cases of severe bruising. The leech acts to "drain" off the excess blood.

 

[AMVmom]

Hardly anybody bathes before jumping in a pool (much less showers poolside) and I would not swim in a pool, period. A public hot tub, you'd have to hold a gun to my head. It's basically the equivalent of taking a bath with strangers.You're marinating in their sludge. Nasty!

Oh I have to agree! I cringe when DH and the kids go into the pool and hot tubs and in turn they laugh at me and DH tells me I'm a germaphobe. But trust me, if the chlorine level is not high enough it will not take care of the "bugs" and they can't make it too high otherwise it'll sting and burn. Plus I always think about kids peeing in the pool, spitting the pool water out when swimming, etc. The chlorine isn't going to make the pee disappear! But that's just me, like I said I am a big time germaphobe!

 

[Tiki Room Fan]

I'm an Atlanta Braves fan and about 10 or 11 years ago, their old short stop, Walt Weiss, his 3 year old son Brody and about 20 other kids contracted a potentially deadly E coli infection from swimming in a kiddie pool at White Water, some water park in Atlanta. He was in the hospital undergoing dialysis after suffering with 50% kidney failure. Apparently a sick kid defecated in the pool and it took about week before Weiss's son was even diagnosed. He made a full recovery and while expected to spend a month in the hospital, was released a bit early. Kinda scary to take your kid to a water park and it lands them with a potentially deadly infection. You'd think a "water park" would have something in place to prevent this kinda thing (?) What keeps that from happening anywhere in any pool?

 

[AMVmom]

I take it you all never swim in the ocean?

Doctors used to think leeches were a good idea; people used to think the earth was flat. Heck, my doctor thinks the little empty space in the back of my skull is what causes seizures.

Actually leeches are still used in medicine and has anticoagulating properties for certain blood dyscrasias. And no I don't swim in the ocean but I know that I just have a big fear of germs. It could also be because I am always around sick children in the office and in the hospital as I am a pediatrician. I'm sure Disney checks their chlorine levels periodically and clean them on a regular basis.

We are all just giving our opinions and noone is trying to force their practices on anyone as far as I can tell.

DH is the opposite. He is an outdoorsy type and loves what he calls "clean dirt". The kids take after him. So long as mommy doesn't have to participate I am happy!

 

[cinderwannabe]

I am actually wishing that I didn't read this thread but once I started I couldn't stop. I hope I can still swim in the pool after reading all of this becasue I really do enjoy it! Are there really signs that ask you to shower first? I can't recall ever seeing them.

 

[LittleMissMagic]

pfffff.... why shower when you can take a nice bath in the hot tub?

I don't shower because the water is cold. And I don't want to get wet before I actually have to get wet. But, it might actually make the transition into the pool easier because once you're soaking, you might as well get in. I just prefer to ease my way in..... and I don't always want to get my hair wet.

I shower after the pool....

 

[LittleMissMagic]

Oh I have to agree! I cringe when DH and the kids go into the pool and hot tubs and in turn they laugh at me and DH tells me I'm a germaphobe. But trust me, if the chlorine level is not high enough it will not take care of the "bugs" and they can't make it too high otherwise it'll sting and burn. Plus I always think about kids peeing in the pool, spitting the pool water out when swimming, etc. The chlorine isn't going to make the pee disappear! But that's just me, like I said I am a big time germaphobe!

Hey.... pee is sterile.

 

[AMVmom]

Hey.... pee is sterile.

Agreed! But still yucky!

 

[carmiedog]

I don't know about Disney, but there ARE signs at my local outdoor pool and at our indoor YMCA pool asking you to shower before entering the pool. Do people? Nope.

You can add me to the non-shower group. I don't use hair product or wear make-up, but I do use deodorant in the morning and the whole family uses sunscreen. If it's a choice between my family going without sunscreen and them having to clean the pool out more often...sorry, get out the scrub brushes! Here at home, I do have my kids shower off if they've been out in the sand or dirt.

I've never heard that wetting your hair first helps protect it from chlorine. Interesting. I will definitely be taking that into consideration.

 

[LoraJ]

The only times I have ever showered before going in a pool is when going from a beach to the pool and getting all of the sand off.

I shower after I go in a pool.

 

[DVCBELLE]

I will shower if I have sand, dirt or grass on me but not if I just came down from my room or don't have sand on me.

I am not one to worry about germs - but the one thing I don't use is the hand blowers in bathrooms - I have a friend who works for a company that inspects them and he said the amount of fecal matter in the air samples are repulsive. Which makes sense b/c it is pulling air from the bathroom to blow on your hands!!!! Now that is gross to me - not the pool - there is enough chlorine to not bother me and I shower when I get out!

 

[JennyMP03]

Oh, how I wish I had not come across this thread. Once I began reading, I simply could not stop. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to swim/drink a fountain soda/use my toothbrush again.

 

[PaulaSB12]

I take it you all never swim in the ocean?

Doctors used to think leeches were a good idea; people used to think the earth was flat. Heck, my doctor thinks the little empty space in the back of my skull is what causes seizures.

I hate to tell you but doctors still think leeches are good, they are used when people have fingers reattached.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/le...hermans-fingers/2007/07/12/1183833638673.html

by the leeches pulling the blood through the finger it stops cell death in the reattached finger and helps recovery. Maggots are used to help with gangrene as well as they eat the infected flesh

http://stanford.wellsphere.com/wellmix360/gangrene-and-maggot-therapy

 

[Missus Toad]

I do, FWIW! So does my fam. And I don't enjoy the cold any more than anyone else, I'm just okay with obliging the signs requesting we do so.

 

[loonytoony]

We are going to Carribean Beach in a few months and I am looking foreward to the renovated main pool. Last year we went to CSR and the pool there would be hard to beat. Anyways... In my past experiences at CSR and POR I notice nobody showers before they get in. I approached the hot tub at CSR and told my boys to shower before getting in. All three of us took a few steps to the side where a shower head is located and washed off quick. We then went in. While in the hot tub I couldnt help but notice an endless parade come to the pool area and forego the shower. As a matter of fact, I never saw one person besides us use the thing in the 4 to 5 times we went to the main pool. I am not a germophobe either.. actually Im a border line slob to be brutally honest. Do most people honestly shower at the poolside or just go in at the end of a long hot day?

I use the shower after I get out of the hot tub to get the "funk" off. Serves that purpose well.

 

[k&a&c'smom]

Honestly, it never occurred to me that I needed to rinse off before swimming. I thought the showers were for rinsing off grass, sand, dirt from lying on the beach or walking barefoot. I've never been able to get lotion or deodorant off without soap, and - in the case of my stick deodorant - a wash cloth.

The idea about saturating the hair before getting in to prevent damage is an interesting one, I'll probably shower in the room before heading to the pool from now on. (I do that anyway, if I'm sweaty, but not if I'm heading to the pool early in the day.)

As far as the pool germs go, I don't worry about that too much. I agree with the idea that we sometimes compromise our own germ-fighting ability by trying to "anti-bacterial" our whole lives. I think I have a much higher chance of being injured whenever I get into my car than I have getting sick from the public pool, and yet I still drive! But, I don't worry too much about the comforter in the room, either, so there ya go!

 

[eeyorepixie]

I shower after I use the pool, to get the chlorine out.