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Related: About this forumApparently being allergic to exercise is a real thing
An allergy to exercise might sound like a couch potato's dream, but for Kasia Beaver, a mom of four who lives in the UK, it's a nightmare.
Whenever her heart beats too fast and she sweats, it sparks a potentially fatal allergic reaction. Her eyes swell shut, she breaks out in hives and her throat closes up.
"It's terrifying, especially if I'm alone with the children," she said.
The 33-year-old is just one of a handful of people who suffer from a life-threatening allergic reaction to exercise known as exercise-induced angioedema or EIA. The condition and a less severe form of exercise allergy called exercise-induced urticaria are so exceedingly rare, there are no estimates for the number of sufferers.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/woman-suffers-life-threatening-allergy-exercise/story?id=18774866#.UUyKNSPn_mR
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Bring me my fan and lavender water before I swoon...
Maraya1969
(22,482 posts)air and not enough carbon dioxide.
surrealAmerican
(11,361 posts)How did she ever manage to survive four pregnancies with this condition?
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)but I am sure glad that I really am not. That sounds like it could really be a downer.
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)about my being allergic to exercise after reading this. I'm just lazy - not allergic.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)But I swear I'm allergic to my own tears. Just tears welling up make my eyes swell, become cloudy and itch.
I hate to tell you what I look like when I actually cry. Dr gives me water pills (which I never use unless my eyes are swollen). He's seen what happens to me and it ain't pretty, looks like I've been in a boxing ring.
When I was working, before the water pills, I'd have to call out sick because I could never have seen my computer screen. Besides I'd have looked so bad the rest of the office would have had to go home, lol.