It is best not to. If you do then like said you want it at a stage where it is well on the way to healing and has scabbed up. You also want to wear a decent waterproof dressing on it (one with a really thin film backing rather than thicker plastic as the thicker they are the less they stay stuck to your skin with movement and the more so that they'll leak) and after you've been swimming then I would suggest that you wash the area thoroughly with water to make sre you get all the chlorine off. Definitely don't if it's not closed up and definitely have a waterproof dressing on them. Really in the pool guidelines they do usually state that if you have a wound then you can't go in the pool though because of the risk of you getting an infection or it spreading (especially if the chlorine levels are not right (though they should be as a proper place checks they are within the right levels several tims per day)) but as well as that the chlorine itself will irritate the wound. But yep, a really decent film backed waterproof dressing would be what you needed and if you do, even if it has fully scabbed, and if you're not sure then talk to the staff at the pool.
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