1. Sinusitis
After swimming, many people sneeze, have a runny nose, runny nose, and nasal congestion. The causes may be bacteria, viruses, fungi, or allergies to swimming pool antiseptics. At that time, the patient feels that the nasal discharge is initially thin, then gradually cloudy and then yellow or green. People are tired, have a fever, headache and facial pain.
2. Otitis externa
Otitis externa is a common problem in young children, but adults when swimming are also prone to otitis externa. The cause is that patients may be infected with bacteria or fungi in the ear canal, when there are symptoms of ear pain, itching, tinnitus or heavy ears. Sometimes patients also experience severe ear pain accompanied by fever.
3. sore throat
The hot weather of summer is often high, if you swim for a long time, the body becomes cold, leading to sore throat. When swimming, it may be due to choking on water or drinking water from infected lakes, ponds, rivers, and swimming pools, so it is also easy to get sore throat.
In case of acute pharyngitis, it is after swimming that there are signs of fatigue, may be fever - high fever, sore throat, accompanied by respiratory infection symptoms such as runny nose, coughing up phlegm...
4. Middle ear infection
Acute otitis media is likely to occur when swimming, the reason is that swimming in swimming pools, rivers, and streams with contaminated water will trigger a phase of acute otitis media. People with chronic otitis media will also relapse because pool water goes through the eardrum and punctures into the middle ear or through the nasal sinus through the ear canal into the middle ear (common in young children). Symptoms of acute otitis media are tinnitus, hearing loss, feeling of water in the ear, the patient feels dizziness in the ear, may have fever and/or severe pain in the ear.
