OK well, this happens alot but this is how it progresses. I'm swimming warm up feeling pretty good and then we continue swim, feel good. We start doing some quick sets get the heart rate going, breathing a little heavier, and i feel this irritation deep in my lungs, not too bad right now. However, the main set comes around and about half way though I go into a sparatic, uncontrolable cough. It is very bad, I am coughing in between breaths underwater and it just feels worse when you breath in. At the wall i am breath very fast because if i breath to deep i will cough more. This happens to just about everyone in the pool and i feel i cant get the most out of my time int he water. Usually the coach opens the door and it helps a bit, but not reall yin lane six fartherst from the door. Also our pool has no openable windows. Are there any other suggestions for fixing this problem? My team and i are desperate.
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I coach an age group team and we swim in really old pools with little to no circulation. I have asthma and it really bothers me when we swim, so over the past few years we have bought a few fans and kept them going throughout practice along with the door to the hallway. By no means is the air quality great, but it certainly is better. If you know who the pool operator is, maybe you can check to see what kind of chlorine or other chemical they use. The cheaper ones result in worse air quality. Another help is having everyone shower before they enter the pool. In a recent edition of the CPO magazine that our club got, it suggests that all the chemicals from perfume, etc. are really bad for the quality of air (which makes sense). Sorry for being so wordy!
Suzanne
I coach an age group team and we swim in really old pools with little to no circulation. I have asthma and it really bothers me when we swim, so over the past few years we have bought a few fans and kept them going throughout practice along with the door to the hallway. By no means is the air quality great, but it certainly is better. If you know who the pool operator is, maybe you can check to see what kind of chlorine or other chemical they use. The cheaper ones result in worse air quality. Another help is having everyone shower before they enter the pool. In a recent edition of the CPO magazine that our club got, it suggests that all the chemicals from perfume, etc. are really bad for the quality of air (which makes sense). Sorry for being so wordy!
Suzanne
