3 岁的艾薇 · 福斯特和 8 岁的基瓦 · 霍洛因在海中游泳时呛水，随后出现高烧症状并感染细菌，目前正在医院接受治疗。

两名儿童在被戏称为 " 马桶圈 " 的港口游泳后，因病情危急住院治疗。

3 岁的艾薇 · 福斯特（Ivy Foster）与母亲在多塞特郡伯恩茅斯的基督城港玩桨板后，感染大肠杆菌中毒。由于该感染对多种抗生素产生耐药性，艾薇已两度住院治疗。

她出现了呕吐、腹泻、腹痛等症状，体温一度飙升至 39.2 摄氏度，远超儿童健康体温标准范围（36 至 37.5 摄氏度）。期间其家人甚至担心她可能撑不过去。

万幸的是，医生发现一种抗生素疗法似乎能有效对抗感染，患者目前已康复出院。与此同时，8 岁的基娃 · 霍洛（Keeva Hollow）在埃文海滩（靠近港口入口处）游泳后感染弯曲杆菌住院治疗。

她被海浪击中时呛了几口水，24 小时内便出现高烧和腹泻症状。由于体重急剧下降，随后她被紧急送往急诊室接受静脉输液治疗。

一个月过去了，她仍未完全康复。两名儿童的父母现已公开他们在医院中的触目惊心的照片，以引起人们对克里斯彻奇港持续污染问题的关注。

该港口被称为 " 伯恩茅斯的马桶 "，因为斯托尔河与埃文河两条河流在此汇入。斯托尔河环绕人口稠密的伯恩茅斯和基督城后方流淌，沿途经过放牧的农田、建筑工地以及污水处理厂。

上周，定期检测克赖斯特彻奇港污染情况的志愿者披露，他们在水中检测到大肠杆菌含量严重超标。艾薇的母亲金伯莉表示，她对港口目前的状况感到恶心。

她表示：" 我们在马德福德码头玩桨板时，潮水退去后闻到一股恶臭，于是赶紧上岸，那气味实在令人作呕。回家几天后，艾薇就病得很严重。"

医生表示，她感染此病很可能是因水源问题所致。他们尝试了头孢氨苄（celalexan）、复方阿莫西克拉维酸（co-Amoxiclav）及甲氧苄啶阿莫西林（Trimethopim Amoxicillin）等抗生素疗程，但大肠杆菌对所有药物均表现出耐药性。

艾薇在普尔医院短暂住院后出院，但因病情恶化于 8 月 21 日再次入院。第二次住院持续了四天，期间她接受了静脉输液并进行了新一轮抗生素治疗。

由于医生确信这次抗生素起了作用，她于 8 月 25 日出院，此后一直处于监测中。她的母亲金伯莉 · 福斯特（Kimberley Foster）是一名 34 岁的理发师，她说：" 在她第二次入院前，她的健康状况确实急转直下。"

她出现腹痛、恶心、39.2 摄氏度的高烧和腹泻症状，无法进食。医护人员随即为她进行静脉输液并补充体液。

那是一段可怕而恐怖的时光，我以为她快要死了。医生们确信，最新一轮强效抗生素治疗似乎正在起效，艾薇终于逐渐恢复了她可爱的模样。

我感到非常愤怒，因为我住在穆德福德，海滩通常是我们全家出游的首选地。但经过这次事件后，我不会再带孩子去那里了，我也会告诫人们不要下水。

8 岁女孩基瓦 · 霍洛的母亲艾斯琳 · 麦卡锡表示，女儿住院后当局的回应令她感到愤慨。这位教师身份的母亲确信，基瓦在多塞特郡穆德福特的埃文海滩与修士崖之间游泳时吞下海水，因此感染了弯曲杆菌。

她于 8 月 3 日游泳后出现高烧腹泻等严重症状，并于 8 月 7 日住院治疗。46 岁的麦卡锡女士表示：" 当时一个浪头打来，她呛入了大量海水。虽然上岸后她一直说不舒服，但我们还是去吃了冰淇淋，我当时并未多想。"

两天后，她变得萎靡不振、昏昏欲睡，既不愿进食也不肯下床。体温开始升高，服用卡普洛（Calpol）也不见好转。起初我以为只是肠胃不适。由于她一直意识模糊，我们带她去了急诊诊所，医生在其粪便中发现了血迹。

她接着说道：" 医院检测出弯曲杆菌，这种细菌可能由水污染或食物污染引发。鸡肉是常见感染源，但基娃（Keeva）平时很少吃肉，而且我们全家一起用餐，其他人都没生病，实在想不通她怎么会吃到不洁食物。"

我当时确实怀疑是水质问题，因此联系了市政委员会、环境署和韦塞克斯水务公司。但环境署和韦塞克斯水务公司只是给我回复了一些模板式的答复邮件，他们并未提出任何问题，这让我觉得他们根本没有认真对待此事。

我认为人们完全忽视了她在游泳时可能生病的风险。这件事需要得到彻底调查。韦塞克斯水务公司凭什么宣称埃文海滩水质极佳——我想知道他们最后一次检测是什么时候，因为在旅游旺季应该每天进行检测。

英国环境署发言人表示：" 我方工作人员的采样检测显示，基督城港的大肠杆菌水平处于预期范围内。"

我们已全面核查水务公司的排放情况，并调查了与大肠杆菌读数升高相关的其他潜在污染源，但尚未确定具体来源。自然水体中的细菌水平可能因天气、潮汐、水质条件和一天中的不同时段等因素而存在显著波动。

该港口还受到多种细菌来源的影响，包括鸟类、城市径流、农业活动及私人污水处理系统。

威塞克斯水务公司发言人表示：上个月斯陶尔河报告的大肠杆菌高读数与威塞克斯水务公司或其资产无关。

克赖斯特彻奇港是一个主要为农村地区服务的集水区，其水质可能受到野生动物、农业径流、私人污水源以及众多其他因素的影响。

英国环境署数据显示，水务行业设施的排放并非导致该港口未能获得更高生态评级的原因。

Ivy Foster, 3, and Keeva Hollow, 8, have been in hospital fighting bacterial infections after swimming and swallowing water in the sea and falling ill with high fevers

Two children are desperately ill in hospital after swimming in a harbour branded a "toilet bowl".

Ivy Foster, 3, fell ill with E.coli poisoning after paddleboarding in Christchurch Harbour in Bournemouth, Dorset with her mum. Ivy has since endured two spells in hospital as the infection was resistant to several different antibiotics.

She has suffered from vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and a temperature spiking at 39.2C - well beyond the 36C and 37.5C range considered healthy for children. At one stage her family feared she was going to die.

Thankfully, doctors discovered a course of antibiotics that appears to be fighting the infection and she has since been discharged from hospital. Meanwhile, Keeva Hollow, 8, was hospitalised with the bacterial infection campylobacter after swimming off Avon Beach, which is close to the entrance to the harbour.

She swallowed some water when she was hit by a wave and within 24 hours was ill with a high temperature and diarrhoea. She was later rushed to A&E and she was placed on an IV drip as she lost a lot of weight.

She has not yet fully recovered a month later. The parents of both children have now released shocking photographs of them in hospital to highlight ongoing pollution concerns with Christchurch Harbour.

The harbour has been described as the "toilet bowl of Bournemouth" as two rivers - Stour and Avon - drain into it. The River Stour runs around the back of heavily populated Bournemouth and Christchurch, passing agricultural land with cattle, building sites and sewage treatment plants.

Last week, volunteers who regularly test Christchurch Harbour for pollution revealed they had recorded massive levels of E.coli in the water. Ivy's mother Kimberley said she is disgusted at the state of the harbour.

She said: "We were at Mudeford Quay paddleboarding and when the tide went down we noticed this horrendous smell and we got out of the water, it was disgusting. We went home and a few days later Ivy became really poorly.

"The doctor said she probably caught this because of the water. They tried courses of the antibiotics celalexan, co-Amoxiclav and Trimethopim Amoxicillin but the E-coli was resistant to all of them."

Ivy was discharged following a short stay in Poole Hospital but was re-admitted on August 21 after her condition deteriorated. Her second spell lasted four days, during which she was put on an IV drip and given another course of antibiotics.

With the doctors confident the antibiotics were working this time, she was discharged on August 25 and has been monitored since then. Her mum, Kimberley Foster, a 34-year-old hairdresser, said: "Before her second admission to hospital she really went down hill.

"She had abdominal pain, sickness, a temperature of 39.2C and diarrhoea. She couldn't hold anything down so they put her on an IV drip and gave her fluids.

"It was a scary, horrendous time and I thought she was going to die. The doctors are confident that this latest course of very strong antibiotics seems to be working, and Ivy is finally coming back to her lovely self.

"I'm disgusted because I live in Mudeford and the beach is normally our first port of call as a family. But after this I'm not taking my children there any more and I would tell people to stay out of the water."

Aisling McCarthy, mum of 8-year-old Keeva Hollow, said she was disgusted by the response from authorities after her daughter was hospitalised. Teacher McCarthy said she was certain Keeva picked up campylobacter after swallowing seawater while swimming between Avon Beach and Friars Cliff in Mudefort, in Dorset.

She went swimming on August 3 and was hospitalised on August 7 after becoming very ill with a high temperature and diarrhoea. Ms McCarthy, 46, said: "A wave hit her and she ingested quite a lot of water, she came out complaining but we went for ice cream and I didn't think any more of it at the time.

"Two days later and she was droopy, lethargic and didn't want to eat or leave her bed. Her temperature started going up and Calpol wasn't helping. I thought it was a tummy bug at first. She wasn't really waking up so we took her to an out of hours doctor and they found blood in her stool."

She continued: "The hospital found campylobacter, which can be caused from water pollution or food contamination. Chicken is a common cause but Keeva's not really a meat eater and we eat as a family so I can't see how she could've eaten something when the rest of us didn't get sick.

"I did really suspect it was the water so I contacted the council, Environment Agency and Wessex Water. I just got sent back generic right of reply emails from the Environment Agency and Wessex Water, they didn't ask any questions, I didn't feel they were taking it seriously.

"I feel like it was totally ignored that there was a chance she could've gotten sick from swimming. It needs to be investigated properly. How Wessex Water can say Avon Beach has excellent water quality - I want to know when that was last tested, because it should be tested every day in high season."

An Environment Agency spokesperson said: Our officers sampling showed E. coli levels to be within the range we would expect to see in Christchurch Harbour.

We have thoroughly checked water company discharges and investigated other potential sources of pollution linked to the elevated E. coli readings and are yet to identify a source. Bacterial levels in natural waters can vary significantly due to factors such as weather , tides water conditions and time of day.

"The harbour is also subject to a large range of bacteria sources including birds, urban run-off, agriculture and private treatment systems."

A Wessex Water spokesperson said: Last months reported high E.Coli readings in the Stour did not relate to Wessex Water or its assets.

Christchurch Harbour is a catchment serving a largely rural area where water quality can be influenced by wildlife, agricultural run-off, private sewage sources and numerous other factors.

Environment Agency data does not identify discharges from water industry assets as the reason for the harbour not achieving a higher ecological status.