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Summer swimming season will start within a few weeks. The Burlington Board of Health is providing some educational information for you and your family to prevent recreational water illness. May 19 – 25, 2008 marks the fourth annual Recreational Water Illness Prevention Week. You can choose to Swim Healthy by following the SIX “PLEAs” for Healthy Swimming:
1)  Please don’t swim when you have diarrhea. This is especially important for kids in diapers. You can spread germs in the water and make other people sick.
2)  Please don’t swallow the pool water. In fact, avoid getting water in your month.
3)  Please practice good hygiene. Take a shower before swimming and wash your hands after using the toilet or changing diapers. Germs on your body end up in the water.
4)  Please take your kids on bathroom breaks or check diapers often. Waiting to hear “I have to go” may mean that it’s too late.
5)  Please change diapers in a bathroom and not at poolside. Germs can spread to surfaces and objects in and around the pool and spread illness.
6)  Please wash your child thoroughly (especially the rear end) with soap and water before swimming. Everyone has invisible amounts of fecal matter on their bottoms that ends up in the pool.

For additional information go to http://www.cdc.gov/healthyswimming/rwi_prevention_week.htm
or contact the Burlington Board of Health at 781-270-1955.

Board of Health contact:

781-270-1955

Nurses contact:

781-270-1957

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