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Every year without fail i get sick with a post nasal drip during winter that really hampers my ability to train.

I use a nasal spray that helps somewhat, but if not managed it often jumps to my chest.

 

I am 99% certain its an immune response to the pollution in the air during winter.

tracking the pollution in the phone App Breezometer often sees the figure drop to under 10 out of 100 in the middle of the cradle!

lowest i've seen is 5

 

how many other suffer the same issue?

 

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I'd get it every year, multiple times. Nasal drip, sore throat with swollen glands, loss of voice when real bad, and then into the chest.

 

I now have a bottle of saline solution in the bathroom cabinet, as soon as I feel I'm waking up or going to bed with nasal drip I flush my nasal passage with the saline solution.

Since I started doing that I think I've suffered once with the above symptoms.

 

I used to make my own solution, but I'm now using an off the shelf one, Salex SSR.

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I'd get it every year, multiple times. Nasal drip, sore throat with swollen glands, loss of voice when real bad, and then into the chest.

 

I now have a bottle of saline solution in the bathroom cabinet, as soon as I feel I'm waking up or going to bed with nasal drip I flush my nasal passage with the saline solution.

Since I started doing that I think I've suffered once with the above symptoms.

 

I used to make my own solution, but I'm now using an off the shelf one, Salex SSR.

 

exactly what i do.

i use a saline rinse all through winter

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LOL - same here - both my wife and myself and always much worse on Mondays after spending Sat & Sun on our mountain bikes - we've resorted to antihistamines unfortunately, taken daily and that keeps us in check. My wife used to do the saline flush story - worked for a while but then not. I must also ad that we're far less sick this year for having stayed locked up since April...

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Last year august i was in GP for the first time in 3 years for a funeral. On my last day i got on the Gautrain in Hatfield for the trippie to OR tambo and once the train crested that hill just past centurion round about the mosque, You could barely see midrand/jhb in the distance.  It looked like Mordor...just needed a huge flaming eyeball in the centre (nominate hillbrow Tower lol)  I remember actually being shocked at the smog levels. 

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Last year august i was in GP for the first time in 3 years for a funeral. On my last day i got on the Gautrain in Hatfield for the trippie to OR tambo and once the train crested that hill just past centurion round about the mosque, You could barely see midrand/jhb in the distance.  It looked like Mordor...just needed a huge flaming eyeball in the centre.  I remember actually being shocked at the smog levels. 

no cape doctor here to blow it all behind the mountain.

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I have suffered from something similar since I was a laaitie back in the 90s. What I found is that I get “sports asthma” when the air is cold and dry. It is not really asthma, but a narrowing of the airways in the lungs caused by strenuous exercise and it can be aggravated by cold air, dry air and pollution. I have no issues when it is warm. My symptoms are coughing, wheezing and post nasal drip. After a hard ride in cold dry air I cough for the rest of the day.

 

I find taking a couple of puffs of a normal asthma pump before my ride helps a lot.

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I have suffered from something similar since I was a laaitie back in the 90s. What I found is that I get “sports asthma” when the air is cold and dry. It is not really asthma, but a narrowing of the airways in the lungs caused by strenuous exercise and it can be aggravated by cold air, dry air and pollution. I have no issues when it is warm. My symptoms are coughing, wheezing and post nasal drip. After a hard ride in cold dry air I cough for the rest of the day.

 

I find taking a couple of puffs of a normal asthma pump before my ride helps a lot.

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no cape doctor here to blow it all behind the mountain.

on windstill/hot days it hangs around here too. Never that bad though with less people and all. And you have witbank just around the corner there too i guess...recently nominated as one of the places with the dirtiest air in the world. 

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What do you use for the post nasal? i struggle with allergies so when the weather is deurmekaar ( like now) in cape town, my post nasal comes to greet me.. I use texa tablets and a mometasone nasal spray, but if nose keeps on getting stuffy will also use the Salex saline solution to flush.. 

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on windstill/hot days it hangs around here too. Never that bad though with less people and all. And you have witbank just around the corner there too i guess...recently nominated as one of the places with the dirtiest air in the world. 

Its not much better here in Magalies...on a winters morning the smoke from the dump, the rubbish they burn at Spar, the previous night's veld fires and the wood stoves hangs like a heavy blanket over the valley....

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I have suffered from something similar since I was a laaitie back in the 90s. What I found is that I get “sports asthma” when the air is cold and dry. It is not really asthma, but a narrowing of the airways in the lungs caused by strenuous exercise and it can be aggravated by cold air, dry air and pollution. I have no issues when it is warm. My symptoms are coughing, wheezing and post nasal drip. After a hard ride in cold dry air I cough for the rest of the day.

 

I find taking a couple of puffs of a normal asthma pump before my ride helps a lot.

 

jip Exercise induced Asthma , also get it when really cold..

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Common Gauteng problem and I have had continues problems with my sinusses when I was living in SA still.  Especially end of winter when the air was dry and the dust got added to the mix.  Many a trip from Cape Town by plane we would fly around ORT to land from the North and then you would fly around the airport but never "see" the airport, only other planes popping out of the smog into the air.

 

I have not had sinus problems since movig here now.  The pollen does give the sinusses something to do but not half as bad.

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I use a prescription nasal spray called Omnair.

Any form of non drowsy antihistamine

saline nasal rinses and sprays on and off to keep the passages clean and prevent dry nose and blood noses.

Andolex-C Throat spray when needed

 

and if push really comes to shove -  iliaden.

i hate the stuff. especially because of its rebound effect.

but sometime i get desperate enough and break down

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My GP told me to use A Vogel's throat spray also as it will assist with the nasal drip and sore throat..

forgot about that.

Andolex-C throat spray works for me

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