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Adverse health outcomes associated with swimming pools
Entrapment
Infection Poisoning, toxicoses and
other conditions that ➢ Entrapment occurs when
➢ Ingestion, inhalation or may arise from long- someone becomes stuck
contact with pathogenic term chemical exposures to a drain or suction fitting
bacteria, viruses, fungi and in a pool or spa, either from
protozoa, which may be ➢ Contact with, inhalation or water suction, or from
present in water and pool ingestion of chemically getting stuck in an
surroundings as a result of contaminated water, opening— even if the
fecal contamination, ingestion of algal toxins pumps are turned off.
carried by participants. ➢ It is a serious potential
and inhalation of
chemically contaminated hazard, particularly for
air. children, who are too small
to break away.
