Swimming is helpful in the prevention of acute rhinitis and the treatment of chronic simple rhinitis.
1. Acute rhinitis: when the body due to a variety of triggers and cause resistance to decline, the nasal mucosa of the defense function has been damaged, often lead to pathogenic microbial invasion after the onset. When the extremities of the skin by the cold stimulation, can cause nasal vasospasm, tissue hypoxia, nasal mucosa temperature reduction, cilia transport dysfunction, SIgA reduction, resistance to viruses decreased.
Regular physical exercise, advocating cold water washing or cold water bath, and swimming and other cold and hot alternating stimulation of the body’s movement, can strengthen the body’s ability to adapt to temperature changes, and at the same time enhance the physical condition.
2. Chronic simple rhinitis: the main reason for this disease is that acute rhinitis is not completely treated after repeated attacks or episodes, and the nasal mucosa fails to return to normal. When stimulated by adverse physical and chemical factors, it can often have an acute attack. Active exercise, improve nutritional status, improve the body’s resistance is a positive treatment method, can reduce the external environmental changes on the body’s adverse effects.
When rhinitis patients with nasal discomfort symptoms are obvious, there are often more secretions, nasal mucosa sensitivity, local resistance to decline and other characteristics, at this time is not suitable for swimming, but recommended to keep warm and recuperate, to be the body’s disease-resistant function to recover, and then step by step appropriate exercise.