Swimming Causing Colds and Fever

Well when children play in the water in pools, water goes up sometimes from the nose to the ears and bacteria/viruses in the water may cause a cold and/or an ear infection.
It happened a lot with my daughter when she was little, she got an ear infection each time we went to the pool during the winter so we stopped... She outgrew it later, she's 6 and had only one ear infection last year after going to the pool once again. Nothing this year !

I asked the pediatrician about ear plugs but she said the trouble comes from the nose when the water is inhaled so a nose clip would be more useful than ear plugs.
Some children are more sensitive than others too...you can help if you give them lots of fruits (for the C vitamin), teach them (the oldest ;-)) to blow his nose, wash the little one's nose with a saline solution but other than that there's not much to do...they're also building their immunities...

Do you know if they're allergic to chlorine? It sounds like an allergic reaction to one or more of the chemicals used in pools. Have they been to a lake and swam? if so, does the same thing happen? I don't think it's coincidence, sounds like an underlying issue.

I say a crazy coincidence.... but still I would remain cautious!

I have a 3 year old, we went swimming 4 weeks ago in our family's pool she developed a fever of 103 two days later. I called the doctor she prescribed azithromycin. However my 3 year old is fairly large for her age size 5 about 48lbs. This did not work she had a very congested cough and actually threw up one morning. The fever did go away after three days though. I recently took her to another pool yesterday and today she is having the same issue....fever is now 102 it's 3pm waiting for an appointment for the pediatricians. Any info would be greatly appreciated, she truly loves to swim.

S.,
I don't know if this would be related to what your experiencing or not but earlier this summer I heard that there is a new bacteria in swimming pools that have become resistant to chlorine and other pool chemicals. They were warning people to be careful at water parks and such. I just thought I would mention it, maybe you could do a search on the internet.

They maybe allergic to the chlorine that is used in the pools. I know that pools at clubs use something different then chlorine and my eldest is allergic to it but neighbors pools that use regular chlorine he is ok.....

not a coincidence at all. chlorine allergy is likely. i know my with my 8 year old, this is the FIRST year we haven't dealt with middle of the night ER visits for ear infections after every trip to the pool. But I kept the leftover anti-biotic drops after the last one last year and the glycerine pain drops, and put them in his ears most of the summer this year. He loves to swim, and drying his ears and adding swim-ear wasn't doing it for him. He was developing an actual bacterial infection (against all odds according to his pediatrician) that would only clear up with anti-biotics.

First thing I think of is a Chlorine allergy. A LOT of people are sensitive to it, but it's a necessary evil unless you have a salt water pool. Try giving them an allergy med and see if it helps, then you'll know.

~L.