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Seasonal Allergy and Seasonal Decrements in Athletic Performance
Allergic diseases are common in all age groups and locations around the world. In the United States, allergic diseases affect 20 to 40 million people annually, including 10% to 30% of adults and close to 40% of children. An estimated 15 million people in the United States have been diagnosed as havi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7119062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15892916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2004.12.006 |
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author | Komarow, Hirsh D. Postolache, Teodor T. |
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description | Allergic diseases are common in all age groups and locations around the world. In the United States, allergic diseases affect 20 to 40 million people annually, including 10% to 30% of adults and close to 40% of children. An estimated 15 million people in the United States have been diagnosed as having asthma, with this number on the rise. Concomitant asthma affects 67% of patients who have allergic rhinitis. As a result of the increase in ventilation during exercise, athletes in particular experience significant symptoms of allergy triggered by exposure to aeroallergens. The allergic response causes nasal and conjunctival congestion, tearing, breathing difficulties, pruritus, fatigue, and mood changes, which affect athletic performance. Systemic symptoms of anaphylaxis from allergy, although rare, can be life threatening. Several decades ago it was inconceivable that an athlete who had asthma could perform competitively, let alone win Olympic gold medals. Today, with proper diagnosis, education, and optimal therapeutic management, the allergic athlete can achieve great strides in all sports endeavors. To avoid seasonal allergic flares and maximize performance, the physician providing care for an athlete who has seasonal allergies must be aware of the climatic patterns of aeroallergen expression, and adjust exercise and pharmacologic regimens accordingly. This article summarizes the effects of allergic disease on exercise and highlights the challenges that seasonal allergy place on athletic performance. Doping considerations grant additional complexity to this issue and underscore the need for a competent, skillful, informed, and ethical approach to treating seasonal allergy in the competitive athlete. |
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spelling | pubmed-71190622020-04-03 Seasonal Allergy and Seasonal Decrements in Athletic Performance Komarow, Hirsh D. Postolache, Teodor T. Clin Sports Med Article Allergic diseases are common in all age groups and locations around the world. In the United States, allergic diseases affect 20 to 40 million people annually, including 10% to 30% of adults and close to 40% of children. An estimated 15 million people in the United States have been diagnosed as having asthma, with this number on the rise. Concomitant asthma affects 67% of patients who have allergic rhinitis. As a result of the increase in ventilation during exercise, athletes in particular experience significant symptoms of allergy triggered by exposure to aeroallergens. The allergic response causes nasal and conjunctival congestion, tearing, breathing difficulties, pruritus, fatigue, and mood changes, which affect athletic performance. Systemic symptoms of anaphylaxis from allergy, although rare, can be life threatening. Several decades ago it was inconceivable that an athlete who had asthma could perform competitively, let alone win Olympic gold medals. Today, with proper diagnosis, education, and optimal therapeutic management, the allergic athlete can achieve great strides in all sports endeavors. To avoid seasonal allergic flares and maximize performance, the physician providing care for an athlete who has seasonal allergies must be aware of the climatic patterns of aeroallergen expression, and adjust exercise and pharmacologic regimens accordingly. This article summarizes the effects of allergic disease on exercise and highlights the challenges that seasonal allergy place on athletic performance. Doping considerations grant additional complexity to this issue and underscore the need for a competent, skillful, informed, and ethical approach to treating seasonal allergy in the competitive athlete. Elsevier 2005-04 2005-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7119062/ /pubmed/15892916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2004.12.006 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
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title | Seasonal Allergy and Seasonal Decrements in Athletic Performance |
title_full | Seasonal Allergy and Seasonal Decrements in Athletic Performance |
title_fullStr | Seasonal Allergy and Seasonal Decrements in Athletic Performance |
title_full_unstemmed | Seasonal Allergy and Seasonal Decrements in Athletic Performance |
title_short | Seasonal Allergy and Seasonal Decrements in Athletic Performance |
title_sort | seasonal allergy and seasonal decrements in athletic performance |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7119062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15892916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csm.2004.12.006 |
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