{"id":279284,"date":"2026-09-04T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279284\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:50:09","slug":"health-beat-doctors-warn-about-the-dangers-of-swimming-with-an-open-wound-health-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279284\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Beat: Doctors warn about the dangers of swimming with an open wound | Health Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Marsh Lake in Berks County is closed this holiday weekend due to high bacteria levels.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to other beaches, like the Jersey Shore, you could come into contact with germs there, too.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors say warm lake, salt, and brackish waters can be breeding grounds for bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>They say it can enter your skin through an open cut, scrape, or fresh tattoo and cause an infection.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors say if you notice the wound getting more red or painful, if it&#8217;s seeping, or if you get a fever, you should head to the emergency room.<\/p>\n<p>They advise protecting the wound with a water-resistant bandage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Marsh Lake in Berks County is closed this holiday weekend due to high bacteria levels. If you&#8217;re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,67064,36719,1879,51181,18171,116882,62794,25628],"class_list":["post-279284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bacteria","tag-beach","tag-danger","tag-infection","tag-lake","tag-open-wound","tag-swimming","tag-wound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}