cold air, coughing?

[lesz42]

went to llandegla today, and only did a mile, before turning back, cold air got to my lungs, and i could not stop coughing, made me feel sick?

got back to center, in the warmth, was ok, soon as i went out, coughing again, like a dry cough?


never had anything like it, cold air seems to set it off?

[S3dINS (AKA Nik)]

Have you had a cold or a chest infection recently? I get it sometimes and my mrs woke me up early this morning with a cough cos the cold air got on her chest.

[dsmiff]

Sounds a bit like exercise induced Asthma, my son suffers from it. I've just go normal asthma - i.e. I'm crap all the time, keep an eye on it, if if get worse see your doctor.

From the web:

•Exercise can even induce an asthma attack in people who have no other triggers and do not experience asthma under any other circumstances.

•People with exercise-induced asthma are believed to be more sensitive to changes in the temperature and humidity of the air.

•When you are at rest, you breathe through your nose, which serves to warm, humidify, and cleanse the air you inhale to make it more like the air in the lungs.

•When you are exercising, you breathe through your mouth, and the air that hits your lungs is colder and drier. The contrast between the warm air in the lungs and the cold inhaled air or the dry inhaled air and moist air in the lungs, can trigger an attack.

[oldgit]

Me too!! Exercised induced asthma is a bugger, it takes me 8 to 10 miles to warm up when road riding or a very steep hill on mtb to go into oxygen debt then I'm ok for the rest of the ride, after a snort on my inhaler. Remember not to push the effort too hard if it's only a chest cold- can put strain on the heart.

[lesz42]

mmmm never , ever had it before? will get it checked out, did 2 rides in the past 4 weeks, no issues?

[dsmiff]

I don't think it is anything to worry about unless it keeps happening.

Cold moist air doesn't do anyone any favors.

[Damon]

Les I am just loosing a bad cold and felt ok until I went out on Friday. I made it to the double steep climb coughing a lot but at that point did the sensible thing and took the Blue run back.

I'd just see the cold off and try again. More than likely its just a cold.

[campbell]

Just start smoking, its a cure for most things, just seems to be getting some bad press recently ;D

[lesz42]

went to degla today, only the blue, apart from being unfit for not riding so long, felt fine!