Yes, it is possible to get pink eyes from a pool. In some cases, people get pink eyes after swimming in the pool, which is in fact caused acute conjunctivitis by bacteria or viruses. If a patient withe conjunctivitis goes to swim in the pool, he can not only infected others in the pool with conjunctivitia, but also lead to repeated infection. This is because that there are large amounts of bacteria or viruses in the eye secretion of the patient with conjunctivitis, and everything the patient touches will be infected with these causative agents. Then if a normal person touches these things, he or she will get infected, too, and the eyes will soon get red. Therefore, patients with pink eyes should not be allowed to enter into those public places sucn as the swimming pool, and the normal swimmers in the pool had better wear swimming goggles to prevent from infections. On the other hand, do not share your washbasin or towels with other people in case of getting infected. All the things that the patients have touched should be scalded to cut off the routes og transmission. If you get infected with pink eyes by accident, you should go to the doctor's for treatment, and do not rub your eyes with hands in case that the bacteria get into the eyeballs to aggravate the infection.
