Killer Workouts: Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis
- Sep 12, 2025
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Author: Ann Pietrangelo
Published on December 1, 2017
What is anaphylaxis?
You probably know someone who is severely allergic to something, like peanuts or bee stings. These allergies can cause anaphylaxis, a type of severe reaction that affects your whole body. It happens quickly and can lead to life-threatening complications.
In rare cases, anaphylaxis is caused by physical activity. A combination of exercise and other contributing factors such as food, weather conditions, or medications can cause exercise-induced anaphylaxis.
Literally allergic to exercise
More vigorous exercises are usually blamed for exercise-induced anaphylaxis. However, it can happen during any physical activity, such as raking leaves or tearing it up on the dance floor.
Eating particular foods before exercising may bring on an allergic reaction. Peanuts, shellfish, tomatoes, corn, and wheat are associated with exercise-induced anaphylaxis, although any food can be a trigger. This is referred to as food-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis.
Certain medications like aspirin and anti-inflammatories can trigger the reaction as well as can extreme temperatures, humidity, and hormonal changes.
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