How can water at the beach be dangerous to your health?
I recently read an article entitled “Beach 101″ and it recommended readers find out about the quality of the ocean water at the beach before wandering into it. It didn’t explain what could contribute to reducing the water’s quality. It also advised readers not to go into ocean water right after it rains. Didn’t explain how rain can contribute to reducing the ocean water’s quality either. The source for much of the information in this article was supposedly WebMD. My experience with doctors has been that they tell me what to do, but are not big on explaining why, so maybe that’s why this article wasn’t big on explaining.
Is there anyone out there (beach fans, lifeguards, scientists, yikes-maybe a doctor?) who would like to explain what (under normal circumstances) makes ocean beach water lose it’s quality and especially how rain water contributes to reducing the ocean water’s quality to the extent that is can be harmful to one’s health?
By: Old Guy
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Filed under Other - Health by on Jan 4th, 2010. 
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there are flesh eating bacteria in some waters. a couple of days ago they had to amputate an older woman’s due to the infection she got. it entered her leg through a cut and now the bacteria is eating her alive.
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water at the beach can be dangerous because of the bacteria in it and the foreign object that people may had put in. rain have a lot of bacteria in it
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Imagine swimming in a pool that was never cleaned, where animals died, ******** as well as people ********* and dumping trash.
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Humans have infected and contaminated the earth in it’s entirety – including the oceans. Pollution & bacteria abound – gathering in bays and on beaches. Rain will bring runoff from the higher ground, which will also bring waste, garbage, chemicals and other impurities. I dont see anything wrong with putting your feet in – as long as you have no open sores, but please shower right away afterwards.
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ABout the rain, I’m thinking acid rain. you know, smog mixes with the clouds, and tehn it rains, and… yeah. Also, I think you know humans contribute to the water’s loss of quality. Here in Southern California, people heavily pollute the beaches. I think it was Long Beach that took more than 5 hours of cleaning up from more than 100 volunteers after the Fourth of July? Yeah, that amount of trash is NORMAL in the beaches. Beaches get that much in one month. And you said under normal circumstances, and that’s unfortunately normal here.
Well, you know how all sewers go to the ocean? That’s normal. Okay, I know you wouldn’t go in a beach with a sewer pipe spewing who knows what into the water, but it spreads all over. Water currents, my friend. Oh yeah, you know how seagulls poo alot? There’s that. I’m also thinking about maybe there’s some chemical plant out there dropping chemicals into the ocean, and those chemicals sorta spread because of ocean currents? Also, there are a lot of piers and docks out there with rows of shops, restaurants, that sorta thing. Another source of pollution.
Don’t bacteria like warm places? Well, if the ocean’s warm, better watch out. I also know there are alot of smokers there that don’t know how to walk four yeard/twelve feet to a trash can.