3 tests you need to do if your child practiced swimming and fear of diseases
3 tests you need to do if your child practiced swimming and fear of diseases
Swimming is the favorite sport for all, especially children, as it helps to strengthen the health of the body and muscles, but sometimes swimming pools may be a place for epidemics and diseases and the spread of infection among children.
"The children who practice swimming are more likely to get infected because of the lack of cleanliness of the swimming pool or the chemicals used in decontamination," said Dr. Tamer Mahrous, a pediatric and neonatologist consultant. Place.
He added that there are three types of diseases that affect children in the swimming pool are:
Skin diseases (such as tinea, skin allergies, and jaundice), due to the use of concentrated disinfectants that cause irritation in the skin or because one child has the disease and spread among the other children.
2: Viral infections (such as colds and flu, popular fluidity), as a result of the incompatible water temperature with water temperature or injury of a child to the disease.
3: Intestinal infections such as diarrhea, colic, and fever, as a result of drinking pool water filled with pollutants and chemicals
He added: Be sure to clean the swimming pool and change the water constantly sterile tools and guaranteed, and to protect our children there are some tests necessary every period to ensure that the child did not have any infection during the exercise most notably (analysis of urine and stool to ensure that the child did not have any viruses or bacteria, .