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OW swimming with healing wounds?

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  • 27-05-2016 4:00pm
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    rodriquez
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭


    hi folks

    just looking for advice on whether is safe to swim in a lake while wounds which are not fully healed are still present?

    from looking at google the consensus seems to be no so i'm just wondering if anyone here has any experience of this?
    I was hoping to do a sprint next weekend but need to get into OW a few times before then just to settle the nerves.
    i've finished a full course of antibiotics and the blisters/wounds (ragweed burns) have more of less healed except for one.
    I sent a pic of the last remaining one to my doctor and he advised staying out of the lake for another week, that being the case i'll miss the race.
    i was considering those liquid spray on plasters or am I just chasing a lost cause?
    cheers


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    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    you are asking for medical advice which cant be given.

    i have seen people taping them up with plastic and tape but see the first sentence.

    at the same time if you constantly pee in the wetsuit it should stay sterile...


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    68 lost souls
    Registered Users Posts: 3,990 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    Without advising on your specific position I have swam using k tape to secure plasters or bandages in the past while swimming. Can't say if it was sterile but kept wounds from opening up while swimming


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    Kurt_Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭Kurt_Godel


    Yes I've experience- sliced my toe open at a tri last year, went to the hospital and had it glued together. Doc said stitches would hold better, but if I rested a lot the glue might hold together. Did a lake tri the following week, with a lot of bandaging (sprayed the wound with liquid bandage, then waterproof blister bandages on top), it was bleeding at T1 so I put a fresh bandage on. Bleeding at the end too.

    I disinfected the wound after the tri, and didn't get any infection (which of course has no bearing on whether or not you might).


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