Also, related, if you don’t already know this, swim diapers are just diapers that are not absorbent, so they hold in poop, but pee goes right through them. So while I would never allow my potty trained child to pee in a pool, babies do it all the time. I also watched a science show one time about how the “chlorine smell” of pools is not just from chlorine, but from the chemical reaction of chlorine with urine. Pretty gross to think about, but I’m not a germaphobe, so I don’t generally have a problem with public pools, but I know plenty of people who do. But, then again I’m more of a take a dip without getting my face or hair wet kind of swimmer when it comes to pools.

I don’t have a “dilution discharge theory.” I’m just saying when you go swimming you are already swimming in a tiny bit of others people’s funk. If you wear a tampon it keeps the blood in. If you are leaking through or around your tampon don’t go swimming in a pool!

News flash: women produce vaginal discharge every day, so I guess if you’ve ever swam with a woman, you’ve swam in diluted discharge. And as long as you are wearing a tampon, it’s perfectly sanitary go swimming while on your period. I mean as sanitary as anything else in a public pool.