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?
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I once herd you cannot be allergic to chlorine yet this topic keeps coming up. If you are allergic to chlorine don't drink water, drink wine or beer. The odd whiskie sour is good to, no ice cubes as the water they use is chlorinated.
I once herd you cannot be allergic to chlorine yet this topic keeps coming up. If you are allergic to chlorine don't drink water, drink wine or beer. The odd whiskie sour is good to, no ice cubes as the water they use is chlorinated.
