I get an allergy attack when I go swimming

Yeah, but sea doesn't have chlorine in it, so chlorine can't be the cause of your allergy right, secret? What does sea water and swimming pool has in common is only people. Maybe u are allergy to something else and it's spread via via water within the enclosed area? Somehow or other, friends around me tend to have some forms of allergy and i'm wondering why :O I dun think seeing a doctor will be able to get the kind of result u are expecting, so maybe u can consider not exposing too much skin while swimming?

Sometimes I do kind of panic in the water. It doesn't really make sense because I do know how to swim. But if I don't go for a long time then I loose confidence and tend to cave in. The chlorine can be a problem! I am indeed very sensitive to chlorine, so much that I put a filter in my shower at home.

Sorry to jest but you didn't watch Jaws before going into the water did you? Watching a scary film with water can actually make some people fear phobic about going into the water whether real or otherwise. Have you in the past had any accident on or near the water, your unconscious can trigger off things when you least expect them too. You can be fine for years then all of a sudden you can develop a fear, allegy, phobia etc about doing something you've done previously without impediment. It cannot be chlorine or anything in the water as you said it affects you in both the swimming pool and the ocean. I hope you can enjoy swimming again, it's a great form of exercise for the body and mind too. Happy 2012 to you my friend.

Perhaps you're allergic to chlorine. See a doctor as soon as possible, allergies are nothing to play with. You could die. They will do tests. As I said before, do it soon and don't be sorry later.

Nope....love swimming too. I bet it has to be something in the water.....do your eyes swell too?

No, I am not allergic to any thing while swimming. What I am very allergic to is coconut, any things that has coconut in it. If I drink coconut juice. within secods I would become dizzy. That raises my blood presure. So, I have to be cery careful with coconut.

I would agree with your friends that it is the chlorine causing the tightness in your chest and sneezing, if it wasn't happening in the sea as well to you. I used to have the same breathing problems with chlorine (although I never had it swimming in fresh water) back when I was young and I would spend the entire day at the swimming pool. But it truly has to be something else in the water that is causing the allergy for you, there's no chlorine in the ocean....

So far I have not experienced the same thing. I don't go to swimming too often anymore but I do love to go to beach or swim in the pool, 'though I don't know how to swim. A little research may help you know what this allergy comes to you whenever you to swim in the water.

Hi secretbear. Is the first time that happened to you? Is it everytime that you go on swimming you sneeze or having difficulty of breathing? If it is, then try to consult your doctor if the chlorine in the pool is causing this. Do you see some rashes in your skin after you went swimming? rashes and itching is also a sign of allergy. I hope that you'll able to know what really causing you this.