Chlorine allergy and the end of my swimming days.....
Former Member
Well I'm grateful every day to be healthy enough to swim and not chronically ill or something, but am at my wits end to have come to the conclusion I may very well have to give up swimming. That past year I have been dealing with horrible sneezing bouts post swim that leave me sounding like I have a cold for days. I tried a nose plug for 3 weeks after reading somewhere that might be it even though I don't feel like water gets in there. No effect. Took a week off swimming and my symptoms abated. Got back in Monday and have been a mess.
Makes me quite bummed to think I may have to ditch my swimming...it's hard to stop something you love doing 5x a week that you have been doing for over 30 years. Would love to know if anyone has successfully combated this issue and how. The Googles has been a joke for solutions....all lead to 'stop exposing the person to chlorine'. We have zero salt water pools and I'm 45 minutes from the nearest lake.
Feel free to suggest anything....thanks!
Parents
Former Member
don't give up hope! I was really really in a bad way after swimming and I'd often have to swim in the evenings because I knew I'd be a mess for the rest of the day. I had continual sinus infections, which nearly always ended up in bronchitis. I tried many nose plugs that fell off or had no effect until finally finding one around Christmas that actually works. Keep trying different nose plugs. The one that I ended up with is a little plastic Tyr brand one. It's really helped.
I drive an hour to swim in the lake whenever I can and that was a godsend until a couple of years ago when I started having severe allergic reactions to pollen!!! I suppose I'll have to wear the noseclip for lake swims now, at least in allergy season...
Salt water is the answer. it fixes everything....good luck
don't give up hope! I was really really in a bad way after swimming and I'd often have to swim in the evenings because I knew I'd be a mess for the rest of the day. I had continual sinus infections, which nearly always ended up in bronchitis. I tried many nose plugs that fell off or had no effect until finally finding one around Christmas that actually works. Keep trying different nose plugs. The one that I ended up with is a little plastic Tyr brand one. It's really helped.
I drive an hour to swim in the lake whenever I can and that was a godsend until a couple of years ago when I started having severe allergic reactions to pollen!!! I suppose I'll have to wear the noseclip for lake swims now, at least in allergy season...
Salt water is the answer. it fixes everything....good luck
