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#PREVENT SWIMMERS ITCH INSTALL#
#PREVENT SWIMMERS ITCH SKIN#
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This is especially true when you swim in the shallow water by the shoreline. Meanwhile, you will be more likely to experience a swimmer’s itch when you swim in salt or freshwater. If a pool is clean and well-maintained, it contains the right amount of chlorine, preventing the growth of parasites. Freshwater doesn’t have chlorine, unlike the swimming pools. Knowing the difference between a swimmer’s itch and a chlorine rash depends on where you are swimming. Medically, this condition is known as ‘cercarial dermatitis.’

It can cause rashes that look like small pimples. When you come in contact with them, the parasites can enter your skin. In a swimmer’s itch, the parasites are from the snails which are present in the water.

A swimmer’s itch is due to the microscopic parasites that dwell in freshwater, whereas a chlorine rash is a reaction of your body because of exposure to chlorine in the water. 46 cases of Swimmer’s Itch were reported around Glen Lake in 2020 using the new system.Both the swimmer’s itch and chlorine rash are swimming-related rashes. In 2020 the GLA joined a new North American Swimmer’s Itch reporting effort aimed at collecting data to aid in prediction of swimmer’s itch risk, identifying hot spots, and contributing to development of a SI alert network.

Use a kid friendly wading or “kiddie pool” for small kids vs.

Use a parasite skimmer to remove the itch from the surface of the lake.

#PREVENT SWIMMERS ITCH INSTALL#

Install a swim baffle (float) in your swim area to block the itch.

Do not swim/wade in shallow water without prevention measures.

Do not swim when an onshore wind is present.

Swim in the afternoon or early evening vs.

(SI rarely affects a person’s hands, feet, and face)

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Cover your skin with full body swimwear, a “rash guard” suit.

#PREVENT SWIMMERS ITCH TRIAL#

The GLA firmly believes that it would be ineffectual and a waste of precious dollars to continue down the path of trying to control, mitigate, or eradicate swimmer’s itch on a lake-wide basis.ĥ0 years of trial and error, plus the latest research have shown our best and most cost-effective defense against Swimmer’s Itch is prevention, not control.

By equipping the swimmer with prevention strategies, we can now target our itch reduction techniques where they belong, namely, the swimmer.

Removing a top predator like the common merganser year after year may produce unintended consequences that would put the balance of life in our lakes in jeopardy.

We still don’t know what the long term adverse effects, if any, there might be on the Glen Lake ecosystem by a sustained live-trapping program.

So just live-trapping the “summer resident broods of mergansers” is not sufficient or effective.

We now know that migratory mergansers, geese, and mallards also contribute to the itch.

It is simply not possible or legal to live-trap all three species of birds every summer in an attempt to eradicate swimmer’s itch. Based on the science, we now know that Canada Geese and Mallards also contribute to the itch.

More than one bird host (common merganser) contributes to the problem.

People ask “why can’t the GLA eradicate swimmer’s itch on Glen Lake?” Here are a few reminders as to why: