
Sniff, Sneeze! The Low Down on Allergies and Sport
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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What's Happening When You Breathe in Pollen?
An elugic reaction is that your body over reacts to something which should be harmless. It's an incorrect response of the immune system trying to get rid of that aligon by overproducing mucus, et cetera. So we find that just for the first few minutes, that helps a lot. And inhaling mass ov amounts of frosty air, that's a huge trigger for a reactive airs. Is there any concept when it comes to using eleginies as direct immunotherapy? Indirectly if you use them in a sublingual form under the tongue on a regular basis, they are safe and effective. We often use the concept of desenstization or em
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