I work with special needs children and they have a pool at the school and so many of the kids have swim pants. Even the teenagers

Swimming schools start swimming lessons for babies as a very young age now. Some can float and do some strokes before they are out of nappies completely

Oh so would Dr Jeremy like to ban all babies (and anyone else who might use a swim nappy – eg some people with disabilities) from ever swimming in a pool? Most parents get out and change their baby pretty quick if they do do a poo in the swim nappy! What is his proposed solution? Other than banning anyone who wears a swim nappy and also anyone who has had diarrhoea in the last 2 weeks from swimming?
Very uninformative article in my opinion – of course swim nappies don’t contain the urine or liquid waste! They contain most of the solid waste though!

Ick, and yep we’ve been swimming in this heat and now I’m sure it’s in poo! Not sick so feel we’ve dodged a bullet.

If your child is learning to swim, then it should have also learned toilet control.

Oh dear, this is quite off putting.

We used them only for swimming lessons, and not even all the time. They encourage swimming lessons from 6 months, so consider what a baby of that age will do when they feel water on their bum!!

Yuck. The only difference between the swim nappies and the regular ones is that the swim nappies don’t absorb the water and end up exploding in a jelly mess!

Grosse! I am paranoid already with all the germs at public pools. After reading this I never want to go again!!

Makes you rethink going to a public pool

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  We still do – chemicals and cleaning do wonders! 🙂

Now the kids are more grown up I ‘m always glad when they have a ‘toddler pool’ separate from the one you can actually swim in! The concentration of urine/poo etc. is also important; you are bound to get some microscopic ‘remains’ (even from the bottoms of adults), but spread out through the water so that you’d be very unlucky to ingest the fraction of droplets that actually have contaminants.

Wow, this makes me think twice about going swimming. It makes me think about how many germs are in the water.

I was never convinced that they would work but used them with both my girls for swimming lessons because it was compulsory before we were allowed in the pool. I stopped using them as soon as they were toilet trained. Never had any poo related incidents thankfully but I assume a lot of wee related ones now after reading this article!

Swim nappies don’t hold urine either I had to use one in an emergency because we were out and they were all i had left in the nappy bag at the end of the day and my daughter wet straight through them. You can then imagine all the children in the toddler pool using them would be leaking into the pool yuk!

Oh…so No swimming then?

It just makes sense to me that nappies do not contain everything!

The idea of faecal matter in the pool and swallowing it is so gross !!

Never liked swim nappies and as for public pools they really are not a safe place health wise.

Just goes with all the pee that is already in the water

They are required at all public pools and regular nappies aren’t allowed in the pool so it’s better than nothing!