Sniff, Sneeze! The Low Down on Allergies and Sport
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Astma in Sports
The prevalence of elegies seems against what you would expect. Is it just because they are sporty, and therefore that's why they present more than their general population? And there's some interesting reasons for it. An endurance athlete, for example, a runner, so they speen hours and hours and hours on the road,. breathing in pollutane, breathing inelitane, breathe in cold air, humid air. So the exposure is jus greater. Then there's another very interesting reason, and that’s when we all go for a run, certainly after a hundred meters, i'm going and the mouth opens and the nose doesn't function any more as our breathing apparatus
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