20 gross pool facts that some might scare you off swimming
Everything — sweat, dirt, oil, grime, bodily fluids — on a person eventually ends up in the water.
Granted, most of the nonpathogenic things that come off of your body are just really gross and won't make you sick simply by swimming in them. But if you wouldn't drink someone else's bath water, you might want to think twice about opening your mouth in a pool.Plus, a surprising number of people can carry pathogens on their body without it harming them. For example, about half of the population carries Staphylococcus aureus. So you never really know what you're swimming in.
