Spunky | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 10:28 pm     Well after reading so much about "folliculitis", (you can pick that up while in a hot tub which is not properly cleansed with chemicals) and all the symptoms Lisa has are similar (infected boil), I surely wouldn't go. She won't be able to enjoy the tub for a while, but as for the other hgs, how could they trust going in there?? I'm surprised at Marcellas, wasn't he in the tub just recently?? Well, for one so keen on hygiene, he should have kept away from the hot tub like the plague... |
Willsfan | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:01 pm     I got a terrible...uh...feminine rash several years ago. It itched like crazy and I had to go to the doctor who told me the chemicals the Health Club had used in the hot tub were too strong. He prescribed some ointment which helped. (women are not supposed to itch in the netherlands) It was scary until I found out what it was. My imagination was running wild. LOL |
Misslibra | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:04 pm     LMAO!! No I don't think so. They have been talking about how yucky the water is, and I watch Gerry put chemicals in the hot tub while the HG's was still in it. |
Cute1073 | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:07 pm     misslibra, that was 'defoamer' which doesn't harm people, which is why they put it in while people are in it also this discussion is also being carried out on the lisa/bite thread |
Misslibra | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:09 pm     Oh didn't know what kind of chemical it was. |
Cute1073 | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:12 pm     yeah, should be more worried if Gerry wasn't putting chemicals in....bacteria love wet warm places! in case people didn't know...defoamer gets rid of foam....another interesting fact is that foam in hottubs is usualy caused by the oil in people's skin. |
Misslibra | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:16 pm     I see him all the time putting chemicals in, that is why I was wondering why they complain about the water looking brown. |
Aria | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:17 pm     I wouldn't have went in that hot tub with a bunch of strangers to begin with. You just never know what kind of germs people are carrying and like Cute said bacteria love wet warm places. The only hot tub I go into is my sister-in-laws and that is only because she is the cleanest person I know, cleans the tub regularly and doesn't let anyone she doesn't know in it. Hot tubs are nasty. |
Cute1073 | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:17 pm     I know, and they complain about the scum line...but every pool in the world gets a scum line....it just needs to be scrubbed! Believe me i've seen pools way dirtier than that hottub could get....13 years as a lifeguard! |
Misslibra | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:20 pm     I have a pool but not a hot tub. I know when using chemicals in my pool I wait before using it, but I see hot tubs are different. |
Cute1073 | Monday, July 29, 2002 - 11:25 pm     no you are right misslibra....Gerry has been 'shocking' the hottub in the mornings when no one is in it. I think there was one time he put too much in and changed the colour of Lisa's bathing suit...no real harm done. Hottubs just get that foam problem hence the defoamer and should have more cholorine in them because of the whole bacteria in warm wet places thing. |
Floresmama | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 12:04 am     Marcellas only got in the hot tub once that I have seen. He doesn't like hot tubs probably having something to do with the germs. He might dangle his feet occasionally but that is it. |
Marcieb | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 05:36 am     Another big cause of foam is going in a hot tub with clothes on like Eric did the other morning. When laundry detergent residue gets in the water, the jets foam it up big time. It should be bathing suits only, not t-shirts and shorts that have been hand wrung. Just a little FYI. |
Jhezzie | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 07:03 am     Geez. I don't remember the other BB bunch having this issue with the hot tub. Ewwww. |
Tabbyking | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 10:35 am     gosh, how about they empty the spa, clean it, and refill it? what a novel idea! their spa grossed me out so much, i am currently emptying and cleaning mine at home!! and perhaps those with running sores or infections: (remember tonya's leaking incision?), gerry's problem, lisa's blistering sore......just stay out until they are healed up. i was going to add josh, but i think just being a fester doesn't count. |
Zachsmom | Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 10:39 am     LOL Tabbyking.. |
Maryann | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 03:00 am     I would not go into the hot tub, in fact I probably would not have gone in to begin with,it just doesn't seem very safe to me. To go in with a person who has an oozing wound makes no sense to me, I don't care how 'safe' someone tells me that it is! I have been wondering if the doctor was a dermatologist or a GP..it seems to me that when a kid had something like that that we had to kind of isolate them to prevent possible spread.The medical advice doesn't make any sense to me...of course they took away my degree to practice medicine last week..<G> |
Alexis_42 | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 05:14 am     The cooties level in that hot tub has to be off the chart!!!! |