Woman's horror after getting 'a mouthful of poo' while swimming in 'sewagey' sea

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READ MORE: Pub 'kept serving food' despite 'incontinent' rats scurrying around kitchen But they quickly realised they were swimming in "sewage" after the NHS worker was hit with a "mouthful of poo".Tracy, 43, opened up about the horrifying moment while speaking to The Argus.She said: “We went down on the disabled ramp and waited for our friends to come, we saw some poo floating around and assumed a child had had an accident so we walked back a bit.“I said ‘it does smell quite sewagey' and my partner said it was likely seaweed.

It was really thick, slimy, smelly, disgusting mud, so we carried on to try to get past it.“Eventually we went into the water, which was itself quite dark, and it sounded a bit gloopy.“Anyway, so we splashed around for about ten minutes and I thought actually this doesn't even feel right [...] I kind of stood up, I was up to maybe my waist, then I realised that actually all around us was poo.

I was like ‘oh my god’.“The dogs started to get all excited and as we were trying to get out, the dog splashed me all over and it landed all in my mouth and up my nose.”Tracy rushed home to shower and later that night she began to feel ill.She began to experience fever and developed a respiratory infection after the incident.Tracy went to see a doctor and was placed on antibiotics and steroids, and given an inhaler to help her breathe.Keep up to date with all the latest news stories.

By signing up for one of Daily Star's free newsletters here.On August 17, Bexhill beach and Normans Bay were closed due to "significant" electrical problems at the Galley Hill pumping station, which led to huge amounts of untreated sewage being pumped into the sea.Tracy says she will be writing to Southern Water as she “wants an.