Allergy and asthma information for swimmers
Swimming and pool allergy problems and asthma information for swimmers.
Does exposure to the swimming pool chemicals like chlorine result in adverse health conditions for swimmers? This study reports that it could, especially during a swimmer's adult life if they swam when they were children.
About.com's Allergy Guide can help you determine if it is an allergy, and ways to help you control them.
Swimming is one of the sports that asthmatics can participate in and have success; the About.com guide to asthma looks at sports and asthma.
Stinging eyes, green hair, and chlorine allergies.
Chlorinated swimming pools can cause asthma in swimmers according to research from several sources. These findings may explain why swimmers are more prone to asthma and other breathing problems than athletes in other sports.
Symptoms and remedies; From swimming@home.
Chlorine in pools leads to breathing trouble in trained swimmers, regardless of past history of such problems, and the likelihood increases with the amount of chlorine used in the water.
Malcolm N. Blumenthal, MD and Carl Sherman discuss exercise and allergies, diagnosis and treatment; From The Physician and Sports Medicine.
The risks, infectious and otherwise, of using swimming pools.
Without getting my life and medical history (both boring) I decided to try blocking the nasal receptor sites in my nose using petroleum jelly and a nose clip.
Chlorine used to disinfect indoor swimming pools could be one of the causes behind an astonishing surge in childhood asthma in developed countries in the past few decades, according to a new study.
Public pools are typically treated with chlorine-based disinfectants to help keep kids safe from the spread of infectious diseases while swimming. A careful study published in the June 2003 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine demonstrated a downside of these chlorines.
