Lately I am swimming at 2 different pools. I am a late blooming, 45yo, fitness swimmer. I am up to doing about 3800 yds per workout. I find that I often have a very runny nose and sneezing fits that can last the entire day. I will take benedryl but it only seems to help a bit. I have tried to pay attention and think that one of the pools may be causing much more of a problem than the other.
As an experiment I tried takign a single benedryl (sp?) about a half hour before swimming. THis seems to be helping. So am I alergic to the water?
Is this common and what other suggestions if any?
Originally posted by NEALK56
Lately I am swimming at 2 different pools. I am a late blooming, 45yo, fitness swimmer. I am up to doing about 3800 yds per workout. I find that I often have a very runny nose and sneezing fits that can last the entire day. I will take benedryl but it only seems to help a bit. I have tried to pay attention and think that one of the pools may be causing much more of a problem than the other.
As an experiment I tried takign a single benedryl (sp?) about a half hour before swimming. THis seems to be helping. So am I alergic to the water?
Is this common and what other suggestions if any?
funny you should ask this, I had a similar issue all of the sudden this early spring!.. I had not swum in about 4 months, then went back to it.. I sometimes sit in a sauna after the workouts and noticed my nose started running all of the sudden. then I started sneezing when I got back to work and the top of my mouth was itchy..
I noticed the next time I went swimming that my goggles (that had been sitting in my swim bag for 4 months), had a little bit of mold on the gaskets!.. I've cleaned them the best I can, (i should probably get new ones though), and noticed a little bit of a difference, I don't do the sneezing thing any more, my mouth isn't itchy, and my nose isn't running as much.
Although, I have also been "cleansing" my body as much as I can.. I changed my diet and no longer am eating refined sugars (except for some occasions :rolleyes: ), or fried or foods that are very processed. I also started drinking water with lemon in it which helps to cleanse excess mucus from the body.
Good luck, I hope you find some relief!
Jeanette.
Originally posted by NEALK56
Lately I am swimming at 2 different pools. I am a late blooming, 45yo, fitness swimmer. I am up to doing about 3800 yds per workout. I find that I often have a very runny nose and sneezing fits that can last the entire day. I will take benedryl but it only seems to help a bit. I have tried to pay attention and think that one of the pools may be causing much more of a problem than the other.
As an experiment I tried takign a single benedryl (sp?) about a half hour before swimming. THis seems to be helping. So am I alergic to the water?
Is this common and what other suggestions if any?
funny you should ask this, I had a similar issue all of the sudden this early spring!.. I had not swum in about 4 months, then went back to it.. I sometimes sit in a sauna after the workouts and noticed my nose started running all of the sudden. then I started sneezing when I got back to work and the top of my mouth was itchy..
I noticed the next time I went swimming that my goggles (that had been sitting in my swim bag for 4 months), had a little bit of mold on the gaskets!.. I've cleaned them the best I can, (i should probably get new ones though), and noticed a little bit of a difference, I don't do the sneezing thing any more, my mouth isn't itchy, and my nose isn't running as much.
Although, I have also been "cleansing" my body as much as I can.. I changed my diet and no longer am eating refined sugars (except for some occasions :rolleyes: ), or fried or foods that are very processed. I also started drinking water with lemon in it which helps to cleanse excess mucus from the body.
Good luck, I hope you find some relief!
Jeanette.
