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Post op swim?

Post op swim?

I'm 2 weeks post op from having a couple (disolving) stitches in my foot (foreign body in lumbrical tendon at the third toe)  The top half of it has healed but not the bottom half and I really need to get back swimming in about a week.

Will swimming in a salt water pool increase my chance of infection or slow my healing?  I have had people telling me that it will help the healing and clean it out, but I don't know..  I just want to get back to life, but I've already dealt with deep muscle injections to save a leg muscle and I have no desire to repeat it.
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