4d1 Subj : Re: Question for Doc Sharon (and any other doctors out there) To : alt.tv.er From : Gabby Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 20:59:46 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er "DawnK" wrote in message news:d12Ve.1904$6Z3.1317@fe06.lga... > > "Gabby" wrote in message > news:11i829il6k7l47f@corp.supernews.com... >>Relegated that 'fact' to the same garbage bin as the one about getting TB >>if you took a bath or went swimming while you were menstruating. My father >>freaked when he found out I was in the tub after I started my period. He >>angrily asked my mom "Didn't you tell her what would happen????" I had to >>explain some facts to her. > Getting TB, because you took a bath, or went swimming, during your period? > I never heard that one before! Doesn't quite work that way, since TB is a > respiratory thing! Oh, but you know how these things work. One girl they knew would go swimming no matter what and she got TB. Ergo, swimming during her period caused the TB. There was no explaining to them that TB is a bacterial infection not in any way caused by the swimming -- unless she was swimming with somebody who had tuberculosis. Gabby . 0