Connect
← Return to (MAC/MAI) Mycobacterium Avium Complex Pulmonary Disease: Join us
Discussion
(MAC/MAI) Mycobacterium Avium Complex Pulmonary Disease: Join us
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Apr 14 3:02pm | Replies (9325)Comment receiving replies
@beatitnow These questions posted by Amy are also of interest to me. For some reason I cannot find my way to Amy's post though. I am interested too if anyone knows anything about this. I use a chlorinated pool about 5 times a week for water exercise and I believe when we go away in October that the place where we are staying has a salt water pool.
___________________________________________________________________________________________
I know there was a thread one time about chlorinated pools, but I did not get a chance to follow the conversation. Does anyone have anything saved in their "file cabinet" about the pool topic, or any information you can contribute would be great!
Also, if there was any information about whether salt water pools are any safer? The house we bought has a pool, so I am going to have to research this. Thank you for any help you can provide!
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Thanks, JK
Replies to "@beatitnow These questions posted by Amy are also of interest to me. For some reason I..."
@windwalker, thanks Terri, just confirms my thinking above! I am going to add that info to my File Cabinet. Hugs to all! Katherine
@windwalker Of course my problem is not MAC so my question was more general, and being on immunosuppressants I have to be really careful. My transplant surgeon would not say absolutely to not go in hot tubs, he said he would leave that to my discretion. Probably because I told him I never go in unless I am in the pool for an extended amount of time and if during that time no one is in the hot tub I figure the chlorine by then must have killed off any lurking bacteria.
JK
contentandwell....to echo all the previous EXCELLENT responses to the issue of dangers to swimming/being in pools. At sept 2016 National Jewish Health NTM conference which I attended, I asked the Microbiologist Dr Joseph Falkingham the following question.
"when the Health Department is checking the pools we have at the YMCA are they able to check for NTM"S?"
His reply was that NO they are not checking for NTM....mostly looking for E COli bacterium (which is from feces)
tdrell
@tdrell, I would imagine that if they did test the water for all of the mycobacteriums that ARE in pools, and people found out what was in them, then NO ONE would go swimming!
windwalker Terri ....you are right...no one would enter a pool if all were known....also the cost required of doing the test the correct way....then have to sit 8 weeks for results!.
Tdrell Terri
Connect
@contentandwell When I was at the convention in DC, the experts there said that
chlorine actually concentrates MAC and that some species have become
resistant to it. (They even recommend cleaning your countertops with
vinegar instead chlorine because of the resistance). I am not saying that all
public pools are unsafe for us MAC people; I would def look at the water clarity
and smell. (not that that is a true indicator) I personally do not swim in pools
very often. If I am at a pool; I take a dip if I am very hot, I don't put
my head or face in or near the water. MAC organisms are found in the ocean too.
I would think salt treated pools are better. I plan to research this more. I
know that INDOOR pools and hot tubs should be avoided.