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jacksriverhiker
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Posted - 02/02/2007 : 12:11:51 PM
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My wife and I have a cabin in Colorado booked for weekend after Valentine's Day, and plan on spending quite a bit of time in the hottub on the deck. I just had surgery to repair a broken wrist, and am a little concerned about getting infected form the hottub water, as it will only be 2 1/2 weeks since the surgery.
Should I be concerned at all? Would a plastic bag and elastic over the wrist help? Thanks for any input.
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balataf
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Posted - 02/02/2007 : 1:10:53 PM
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I have just spent 11 months fighting a continuing case of cellulitis skin infection that appeared 5 days after I used a hot tub. This has caused me to be hospitalized twice, totalling 24 days in March '06 and Jan '07. At the time I got infected, I had no visible skin breaks.
Your concern is very justified: Bad Idea!
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Cheri
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Posted - 02/02/2007 : 1:53:36 PM
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quote: Originally posted by jacksriverhiker
My wife and I have a cabin in Colorado booked for weekend after Valentine's Day, and plan on spending quite a bit of time in the hottub on the deck. I just had surgery to repair a broken wrist, and am a little concerned about getting infected form the hottub water, as it will only be 2 1/2 weeks since the surgery.
Should I be concerned at all? Would a plastic bag and elastic over the wrist help? Thanks for any input.
It depends on the hot tub. If it's a private hot tub that only you go into and if you check the pH and chlorine levels every other day, you should you should have no problem if the wound is healed and not weaping. You can go in and keep your wrist out of the water. I've been going into nudist club hot tubs since 1987, and the only time I ever had a problem was after soaking in a tub in a Tulsa, OK area park that isn't there any more.
I've never had any problems with our tub at home after or before a club event.
Cheri
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pilot
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Posted - 02/02/2007 : 9:58:20 PM
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As Cheri points out, it all depends on how the system is maintained. Hot tubs recirculate warm, aerated water that is 'contaminated' by humans and has available resources for microbia growth from oils and cells shed from human skin, plus whatever falls into the tub. Warm aerated fluid is how we grow bacteria in the lab.
Provided that the pH and hypochlorite (what you call 'chlorine') is properly maintained, and provided any wound appears completely healed, it should be a non issue. But if you are in a 'rented' hot tub and have no idea how it has been maintained, forget it. Similarly, if the surgical wound is 'not quite' healed, I would keep it out of anything except fresh running water from a shower.
As a surgeon, I have taken care of some horrendous infections when communal hot tubs were used by persons who had a seemingly innocuous laceration or abrasion.
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