I hope that I am not a freak of nature but I have noticed that after all of my 5 runs I have coughed on and off for about 20 minutes to clear my lungs - I would understand this if I was a smoker but I have never touched them I'm not asthmatic either. Does this happen to anyone else and do you know why? ( Ihave only been running for a week is this significant?
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so, i found out that i had several allergies, i'm allergic to the moss (so it's worse when it gets wet) and several things in my diet.
i'm vegetarian, but became vegan earlier this year because of my allergies. running or any aerobic exercise can make any symptoms of allergies worsen, so you might consider a test. theyre about £20 and they do them in health food shops etc.
it could be that you've had some symptoms but the running made it worse. you dont have to cut out any suspect foods, though, the person who tests you gives you a re-introduction programme, but i enjoyed my nw diet so much that i never bothered with it!
it might not be that, but that's all i can think of. i hope you sort it, and good luck with your running!
I have had a similar thing, though maybe not as severe as you, after a particularly hard run. I ran with a local club last week for only the second time, now i am normally around an eight minute miler but these guys are nearer seven. So i was pratically sprinting for the whole six mile run, anyway by the time i got home i sounded like i had bronchitis.
So if you are a new runner it could be your lungs getting used to the extra exertion or it could be running induced asthma but you would need a medical professional to give you advice on that one.
NN
I don't worry about it as it settles down after a few hours.
recently after recovering from a cold
According to the official Asthma website, Paula Radcliffe also suffers from exercise induced asthma and uses an inhaler, so it needn't be that much of a handicap! Unless of course she'd go even faster without it?
Don't bother. Go to your GP and get tested properly if you believe you have an allergy. The allergy tests you can get from alternative practitioners are just a way of separating the gullible from their money (and if you don't believe me then just go and have two different ones and compare the results - then tell me that they are anything other than random).
Millipede