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 used to have the same symptoms a couple of years ago. They changed the chemicals in the filtration system into a new one and I'm perfectly fine. I've tried another pool yesterday and my old friend (allergic reaction) came back. I'm sure that it is related to the chemicals they use to clean the pool water.
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I used to have the same symptoms a couple of years ago. They changed the chemicals in the filtration system into a new one and I'm perfectly fine. I've tried another pool yesterday and my old friend (allergic reaction) came back. I'm sure that it is related to the chemicals they use to clean the pool water.
