Does pool water make you throw up?

Question

My 1 1/2 year old girl has thrown up twice today (once during dinner...all over the table, and once in her crib after she had gone to bed). This is not the first time this week, either. She threw up a couple nights ago, as well. She's also had diarrhea for the past several days. She had a temperature the other day, but not today.

I thought it was the flu, but it keeps coming and going. So then I'm thinking it might be swimming in the pool? She's gone swimming almost every day this past week in a chlorinated pool and she is very active (meaning, I'm sure she's swallowed some of the water). The thing that has me questioning this line of reasoning is her ability to throw up TWICE today when she hasn't gone swimming since yesterday.

She may be teething..but would that cause lots of vomit? And she hasn't had tomatoes that I'm aware of.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

if it was the pool water you would think the reaction would be more immediate and not the next day, so maybe it's a virus of some sort, i'd take her to the doc and get it checked out, and in the mean time dont let her swim anymore and see if the symptoms go away

Answer 2

My suggestion is to take her to the doctor he'll diagnose her. It could be the flu I've had flus like that. And another tip: don't let her swim if she swallows water it can make her drown in her sleep, look it up it's called secondary drowning.

Answer 3

I think I am allergic to chlorine but I just sneeze an abnormally amount and feel very dizzy when I get out. I never throw up. But I would maybe call a doctor to be safe.

Answer 4

This is  to continous I think to just be a child swallowing to much water. Is she out in the sun to much? She may have sun poisoning or she may have like an e.coli infection from perhaps the pool. Many pools have kids do things in them and dont realize or just add a little extra cholorine. It sounds to me like you may want to go get her checked out.

Answer 5

If I swallowed pool water when I was little (between 6 and 10) I would be sick for a couple of days (diarrhea and vomiting).  I finally learned not to swallow the water and was fine!  It may not be the chlorine, my son slipped (from his bum onto his back) in our tub and swallowed a lot of water and he vomited!

Answer 6

Yes, I spent one terrible night in Pensacola hugging the toilet.

I hear you can drown if you vomit that pool water in your sleep. I would suggest you stop taking the baby to the pool unless you can keep her head above water.

A little boy died this month and I heard about it on the news.

And it's not good for chilren to ingest a lot of water even if it's not pool water. It can swell their brains...