Can You Geting Sick From Swimming In A Pool/cross Contamination

[rlemmon]

Ok. This could be my being paranoid but... We have a pool and people are always sitting on the deck eating foods with gluten then jumping in the pool.

So Im thinking when water goes in and out off there mouths gluten particles come with. Plus people have contaminated hands. ( orange cheese curl fingers and whatnot) Its not to uncommon to see chips or cheetos or whatever floating in the pool.

I wander if any of this could cause me to get sick from swimming. I am super sensitive and don't want to become sick. I think the pool chemicals may kill the gluten but im not sure. Any thoughts ?

Thanks

[Rachel--24]

Hmmm....I'm really not sure about that one.

To me it would seem very unlikely you would get glutened while swimming. I would just keep my mouth closed while in the water.

[flagbabyds]

I got sick in Mexico when I was in a pool and it had a bar in the pool and people spilled beer all in the pool and the pool was just beer.

[lovegrov]

You can't "kill" gluten, but unless you swim right into the protein in the pool and then swallow it, I just can't imagine how this can be a problem. Even if you did swallow it, it would be so diluted as to be nothing.

This is too paranoid.

richard

[Guest BERNESES]

I suppose anything is possible, but it's definitely not likely. If you think of how they measure gluten (in parts per million) and the size of a crumb compared to how much water is in the pool, I don't think you'd find much. Let alone react to it.

You could maybe react if someone left a crumb on the poolside and you touched it and then put your hand near your mouth. But I really wouldn't worry about this one.

[rlemmon]

thanks for the info guys