Open water swiming – caution is needed
Summer. Naturally, there are also very hot days. And of course, in nature wants to quickly flop into the water. And do not want to think, and there is where we should, in fact, you’re going?
Take a closer look, what kind of pond. If there a large number of waterfowl can get tserkarioz – itching bather.
After bathing, you may experience itching, a red small blisters. And if you have allergies to be the causative agent tserkarioza, the symptoms may be more pronounced. Then you have to use antihistamines. Itching usually stops itself after 2 weeks. But still unpleasant. It’s the larvae of the worm penetrated the skin and you are trying to settle there.
Cercariae – it’s the larvae of trematode flatworms of class, which infests the intestines of ducks. Duck – its final host. Depending on the type of trematode worm may have several intermediate hosts. In water, the larvae that may invade a person’s skin, get out of the gastropod mollusk. They are looking for a place to settle down and sometimes fall into the wrong place – in the human body. There, they usually die. But before that cause trouble.
I’m not talking about that in the water perfectly preserved of intestinal infections. And, if the pond closed, a small bathing in it a lot, but you’re used to bathe the head, so that water enters the mouth, can get from a healthy carrier of infection is almost dysentery or some other intestinal infections, if not very lucky, even cholera.
By the way, the sun was partially disinfects water, so that in very hot sunny days the water still biologically clean.
But we must remember about the possibilities and chemical contaminants. Suspicious color or odor of the water you have to stop in time. There were in fact as a result of bathing and cases of chemical burns.
Swiming in open water
However, even if the pond is not suspicious – it is clean, some caution is still a good idea. Situations are different. From the relatively cool water on a hot day can cause a sharp spasm of blood vessels and faint. If you are swimming cramps. So, better not go swimming alone.
It is more useful in relation to meals to swim no earlier than 1 to 1.5 hours after eating. After lunch, better even after 2 hours.
It is believed that individual to start their swimming season should be at a temperature of not lower than 18 degrees to train for part of the cold and at 22 degrees to the untrained. To get started in the water should not exceed 2 minutes and not more than 3 times per day. Very bad to stand in the wind or come home in a wet bathing suit. Fraught with prostatitis for men, adnexitis (inflammation of the appendages) for women. Pyelonephritis can get both the man and woman. So that change is necessary.
No one will argue – swimming in open water is very useful. Here and impact on virtually naked body and water, and air and wind and sun. Perfectly quenched temperature contrast, relatively cool water relieves fatigue and invigorate. But reasonable caution still can not hurt.
