Every time I start back swimming, I get sinusitis. I can lay off of swimming for about a month and it clears up. There appears to be some research to indicate that this happens to some people, but I cannot find any indication that there is anything that can be done to stop it. I will have to stop swimming altogether if I cannot find a way to control this. I have tried nose clips, but I still get infected sinuses.
Has anyone had this problem and found a solution that worked for them?
Agreed. I think a lot of it has to do with the facility and the indoor/outdoor air quality. If you have allergies or asthma probably even more susceptible. My environmental allergy test lights up like a Christmas tree (everything tests positive) and whenever I would tell allergists that the pool made problems worse I basically got the hairy eyebrow. I would come out itchy eyes, itchy nose and sneezing...from an indoor pool with poor air quality. I think that if your passages are inflamed or struggling with other issues poor pool water or air quality can really add to the irritation. I feel like I'm finally at a place where my allergies are under control with a combination of meds. I don't have any problems with any of the pools I swim in anymore. The previous itchy eyeball pool has been torn down because the entire school had ventilation problems too big to handle so I can't say if it would still be a problem. But I walked into an old pool area the other day to observe lessons and I was very itchy after watching for an hour without even going in the pool.
Point being...make sure any other ENT problems are under control and even then you just might have to find a different pool.
Agreed. I think a lot of it has to do with the facility and the indoor/outdoor air quality. If you have allergies or asthma probably even more susceptible. My environmental allergy test lights up like a Christmas tree (everything tests positive) and whenever I would tell allergists that the pool made problems worse I basically got the hairy eyebrow. I would come out itchy eyes, itchy nose and sneezing...from an indoor pool with poor air quality. I think that if your passages are inflamed or struggling with other issues poor pool water or air quality can really add to the irritation. I feel like I'm finally at a place where my allergies are under control with a combination of meds. I don't have any problems with any of the pools I swim in anymore. The previous itchy eyeball pool has been torn down because the entire school had ventilation problems too big to handle so I can't say if it would still be a problem. But I walked into an old pool area the other day to observe lessons and I was very itchy after watching for an hour without even going in the pool.
Point being...make sure any other ENT problems are under control and even then you just might have to find a different pool.
