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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Severe allergic reaction 2 days after anaerobic exercise?
« on: 23/05/2012 09:26:18 »
Hi jmc. Its so nice to know I'm ot the only one with the symptoms you describe. I suffer from hives, swollen tongue, lips, hands, feet, eyelids, all related to heavy exercise. it took me 12 months to realize the link. i thought at first i had food allergy or dust allergy, etc.
If I do strenuous exercise with weights that give a real burn sensation in the muscle, within a few days i suffer an allergic reaction, which has seen me in hospital on three occasions for adrealin and cortisone injections. Normal exersize is ok as long as i don,t exhaust the muscle to a burn sensation. I,m not sure why it happens but my theory is that when you exhaust the muscles and produce lactic acid, the bloodstream produces higher than normal amounts of histamine. With histamine flowing round the body in large doses, it reacts to the slightest stimulus causing an allergic reaction.
I gave up heavy exercise and have been good for a few years. But recently I started working out with weights again and as i increased the weights I have had allergic reaction again. Swollen lip and tongue.
In the past I found out that if I continue to burn the muscles, the symptoms get worse with hives all over the body.
It also takes about 2 weeks for the body to rid itself of the histamine so even after stopping exercise i can still have reactions for up to 2 weeks.
I've learned you can still work out with weights, as long as you don't get to much of a burn in the muscle. It makes it hard to bulk up as the process is a lot slower. There's not a lot of research out there as there's very few people who have this.
If I do strenuous exercise with weights that give a real burn sensation in the muscle, within a few days i suffer an allergic reaction, which has seen me in hospital on three occasions for adrealin and cortisone injections. Normal exersize is ok as long as i don,t exhaust the muscle to a burn sensation. I,m not sure why it happens but my theory is that when you exhaust the muscles and produce lactic acid, the bloodstream produces higher than normal amounts of histamine. With histamine flowing round the body in large doses, it reacts to the slightest stimulus causing an allergic reaction.
I gave up heavy exercise and have been good for a few years. But recently I started working out with weights again and as i increased the weights I have had allergic reaction again. Swollen lip and tongue.
In the past I found out that if I continue to burn the muscles, the symptoms get worse with hives all over the body.
It also takes about 2 weeks for the body to rid itself of the histamine so even after stopping exercise i can still have reactions for up to 2 weeks.
I've learned you can still work out with weights, as long as you don't get to much of a burn in the muscle. It makes it hard to bulk up as the process is a lot slower. There's not a lot of research out there as there's very few people who have this.