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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Hi Billy,
Sorry to hear you had the dreaded inner ear infection. It can be quite painful. Hope it has cleared up for you. As for the nose clip, it was, for me, a matter of practice and breathing coordination. I breath bilaterally orally and this seems to work well for me. I can swim with or w/out the clip but rarely swim w/out the ear plugs as I seem to have an inner ear canal shape that retains water no matter what I do.
Here in my part of the world it is
RSV season (respiratory syncitial virus) and a recent bout of tracheobronchitis put me out of comission. Hope to be swimming again soon. Stay well. Larry
Hi Billy,
Sorry to hear you had the dreaded inner ear infection. It can be quite painful. Hope it has cleared up for you. As for the nose clip, it was, for me, a matter of practice and breathing coordination. I breath bilaterally orally and this seems to work well for me. I can swim with or w/out the clip but rarely swim w/out the ear plugs as I seem to have an inner ear canal shape that retains water no matter what I do.
Here in my part of the world it is
RSV season (respiratory syncitial virus) and a recent bout of tracheobronchitis put me out of comission. Hope to be swimming again soon. Stay well. Larry
