hot tub rash

A group of us (10 girls) just got back from Blue Ridge, GA where we rented this cabin - Cohutta Overlook Lodge

www.mountainparadisecabins.com/co/index.asp

It is a great cabin, however 7 of us got Hot Tub Folliculitis …allrefer.com/health/hot-tub-folliculitis-in…

We called the management company and they didn%26#39;t believe us and said they drain the hot tubs after every use.

Please be advise - don%26#39;t rent here or buy a home here and let them manage it for you. They do not check the levels and are not in anyway trying to ammend the situation.

Several of us also may have eye infections. We are going to the eye dr this week.

hot tub rash

The name of the management company is Mountain Paradise - http://www.mountainparadisecabins.com

hot tub rash

reminds me of that old bruce springstein ballad....tramps like us baby we were born to run........

or the ever popular poison ivy refrain...gonna buy me an ocean of calamine lotion.....

Rinsing a hot tub is not sufficient. Water and ';funk'; from previous users gets lodged in the jets and recirculates among various users. I think you should press the management company to pay your medical bills, refund your payment, or otherwise compensate you. Otherwise, I believe you would not be out of order in threatening or even filing a lawsuit and threatening to contact other inhabitants of the room. Not to give too much unsolicited legal advice, but Georgia law requires that the company disclose to you its liability insurer. Perhaps you would get taken more seriously dealing with the insurer, which has experience in analyzing claims and has its own money on the line. This is not something I would let drop.

JAtlanta is right. Rinsing it out is not enough. Those jets have to be cleaned on a consistent basis. I wouldn%26#39;t let it rest.

Alas, this kind of thing happens more than people think. I%26#39;m probably paranoid but I don%26#39;t use hot tubs in hotels because I%26#39;m afraid of this kind of thing happening to me.

I agree with the previous poster...especially now that your eyes are involved. Expensive. (And also especailly since the mgmt. co. doesn%26#39;t seem to care.)Those with contacts might not be able to wear them during healing, sometimes these infections are stubborn, etc. Encourage your friends not to wait to have their eyes checked...even those who are %26#39;just a lttle itcht%26#39;...and you know to go to a good eye dr, right? (I%26#39;m aware of the impotance of excellent eye care and sometimes people feeling perhaps they%26#39;ll put off good eye care.) How about your mouths? How about any digestive problems?

At first, I thought by %26#39;hot tub%26#39; you meant the ones that accommodate several people as a group...but those would be very difficult and expensive to drain and refill after each use, aside from accomplishing that by the time the next guest wants it. For our family an excellent filter, and being vigilant of the filter and chemical checks a few times a day, occassional shock and, yes, regular draining and cleaning is good. If you are referring to those group hot tubs, the mgt. should have a policy of %26#39;whatever it takes%26#39; to get the right chemical balance.

What is .. or should be .. specially treated after every individual use are the jetted bath tubs. They are so much work by a careful facility owner, that a lot of smaller establishments find them easier to not have at all. No chemicals, such as chlorine, is added to bathtub water so the danger there is greater. Some areas have the requirement that not only the jets but the system be cleaned, entailing filling the tub back up again over the level of the jets, putting chlorine in the water, turning on the jets so the chlorine gets through the system and then draining it.

You might call that area%26#39;s Health Dept. and check on their requirements for such things. You can also report the establishment to the Health Dept. In my area, they%26#39;ll call you back with what they found out. You might get it in writing...or at least a name if they won%26#39;t do that. Good to have to you wind up suing.

All the best.

This reminds me that my sister actually got a strain of the herpes virus in her eye from a hotel room at the beach about 20 years ago. She still has to take Zovorax and use prescription eye drops, and for a long time her doctors were aftraid that they would have to do a corneal transplant. Eye infections should be taken seriously. Perhaps soon you will be the new owner of the Cohutta Overlook Lodge.

my sincere appologies as my joking demeanour fades. i was wrong and spoke rashly.

I have to say that I look with scepticism on posts like this when the only post that the person has is to make a very negative report. It may be true and it may not be but please keep that possibility in mind. I%26#39;ve just seen too many like this on TA to immediately conclude they are legitimate.

I took for granted that it was one of those group tubs. Was it? If it was, then legal action would probably find you trying to prove that none of you had the skin problem when you got there. If you were in the tub with an infected person, you could have gotten it that way. Not likely, but that%26#39;s how the the management%26#39;s argument would go.

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