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<blockquote data-quote="lizdeluz" data-source="post: 641368" data-attributes="member: 32108"><p>I think you've answered your own question, really.</p><p> </p><p>I usually prefer to use public baths because of this problem. I'm type 1 and therefore it is possible that I could suffer a hypo and be unaware, which would put me at risk in a swimming pool. I wear diabetes ID silicon wristbands when I swim. Swimming is my main form of exercise. Interestingly, it doesn't always lower my blood sugar, sometimes it raises it considerably and then drops like a stone later in the day. Swimming slower might help this problem.</p><p> </p><p>In the past, I used a gite swimming pool, when on holiday, but even there, I preferred to swim when my husband was nearby.</p><p> </p><p>( I was actually more concerned there that the pool might not be safe from a quality of water point of view, and, in fact, I was really ill with a stomach-upset the week after the holiday. Though I can't prove any link between the private pool and my stomach-bug, I still wonder, and it has made me more disinclined to use any pool that isn't tested on a regular basis.)</p><p> </p><p>At my local pool, I was really struck by the expertise and rapid-response of the lifeguards on duty when, one day, a swimmer got into difficulty. It made me even more aware of how, diabetic or not, it's safer to swim in a lifeguarded pool. I like the idea of wild swimming and sea-swimming, but personally, I'm not a sufficiently strong swimmer to risk it without company, and being diabetic, I get my swimming exercise where there are lifeguards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lizdeluz, post: 641368, member: 32108"] I think you've answered your own question, really. I usually prefer to use public baths because of this problem. I'm type 1 and therefore it is possible that I could suffer a hypo and be unaware, which would put me at risk in a swimming pool. I wear diabetes ID silicon wristbands when I swim. Swimming is my main form of exercise. Interestingly, it doesn't always lower my blood sugar, sometimes it raises it considerably and then drops like a stone later in the day. Swimming slower might help this problem. In the past, I used a gite swimming pool, when on holiday, but even there, I preferred to swim when my husband was nearby. ( I was actually more concerned there that the pool might not be safe from a quality of water point of view, and, in fact, I was really ill with a stomach-upset the week after the holiday. Though I can't prove any link between the private pool and my stomach-bug, I still wonder, and it has made me more disinclined to use any pool that isn't tested on a regular basis.) At my local pool, I was really struck by the expertise and rapid-response of the lifeguards on duty when, one day, a swimmer got into difficulty. It made me even more aware of how, diabetic or not, it's safer to swim in a lifeguarded pool. I like the idea of wild swimming and sea-swimming, but personally, I'm not a sufficiently strong swimmer to risk it without company, and being diabetic, I get my swimming exercise where there are lifeguards. [/QUOTE]
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