 Poster: A snowHead
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It is not just me, but my family and friends suffer the same symptoms. When I am in a high resort I always get giant sticky bogeys with a bit of blood in them and my (sorry about this) poos are always kind of aerated, like someone has played a trick on be with a compressed air line. Excess flatulence as well. Any ideas why?
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Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Wed 28-01-15 9:21; edited 2 times in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@sequoiaboard, yes to bogeys (sorry  ), no to poo and flatulence is down to beer and rich food
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Never noticed anything like that... honest 
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I suffer from "Mountain leaving syndrome" it happens usually the night before I'm going to leave the mountains, I feel sad and don't want to leave. My 5yo gets the same issues, we then get back home and feel bad for weeks on end, only curing it temporarily with trips to mount hemel, and praying that a dump will happen in the mountains of Welwyn garden city in the hope of making turns on real snow on the dry ski slope. I have applied a temporary remedy by booking flights to geneva in march, but the doctor (wife) says that is my last trip this year, I'm not sure what I'll do before the next season arrives and my affliction can be cured again 
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bogeys = dry air I believe....fill bath/sink with water before bed time to add moisture to the air ...
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I'm still trying to work out what a "stick bogey" is.
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I have always attributed the slight nose-bleeds to low pressure. As I understand it, the nose is a sort of "fuse" for the circulation system and the difference between your normal blood pressure and the outside world causes bleeds. In my case, at least, this tends to block my nose at night and makes me snore. There is absolutely no connection with consumption of chalet wine. Honest.
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I get some spectacular nose bleeds due to a dodgy blood vessel caused by much rearranging of my nose during rugby my playing days. I always carry a tube of Naseptin when I go skiing.
No to the aerated poo.
What is this "flatulence" that you speak of 
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I suffer from powder fever when it snows and drunk when it doesn't
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I generally suffer from a massively increased appetite and my salopettes always seem to shrink during the week
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Normally get shin baldness.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@sequoiaboard, I'd just got rid of the nasty thick blood stained bogeys when the real mountain lurgy hit me.
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You know it makes sense.
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headaches ever morning and feeling horny every evening
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I feel at my healthiest on a skiing holiday, I eat properly, I sleep properly and I'm outside doing exercise (of sorts) all day. Compared with my usual life of sitting on my butt, grazing rather than eating proper meals, rarely seeing daylight and being lucky to get 4 hours sleep of a night, not to mention constant aches and pains.
If only the NHS could prescribe and fund season-long skiing holidays as treatment...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Fatigue and aches and pains in joints can be a sign of vit D deficiency.....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ahhh sticky bogeys! I don't know about giant or sticky but my nose never stops running from the time I get onto the mountain until at least an hour after I get back down, requiring up to two packs of pocket tissues a day. And yes, I get the occasional nose bleed when skiing.
Two seasons ago, I tried something recommended by a crusty old mountain guide – coat the inside of my nose with Vaseline (applied with a cotton bud, I might add). This has, miraculously, reduced the enormous amount of snot my nose seemed to produce at altitude to a manageable three-tissue volume and eliminated the nosebleeds entirely.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| bagginsmum wrote: |
| Fatigue and aches and pains in joints can be a sign of vit D deficiency..... |
How the hell can anyone have vit D deficiency when exposed to all of that UV on a ski trip. If anything, the ski trip should reduce the deficiency and its symptoms.
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How the hell can anyone have vit D deficiency when exposed to all of that UV on a ski trip. If anything, the ski trip should reduce the deficiency and its symptoms.
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Salopettes tick, jacket tick, gloves tick, boots tick, gloves tick, helmet tick, goggles tick, sun screen tick, vitamin d, you've got to be joking.
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T Bar, I wear all of that except the helmet and my sunscreen is SPF 50, yet I still get a suntanned face and hands (taking gloves off to eat or whatever). You only need about 10 minutes of sun exposure a day to produce sufficient vit D. At altitude, with high UV, you need less than that.
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| Zero_G wrote: |
| T Bar, I wear all of that except the helmet and my sunscreen is SPF 50, yet I still get a suntanned face and hands (taking gloves off to eat or whatever). You only need about 10 minutes of sun exposure a day to produce sufficient vit D. At altitude, with high UV, you need less than that. |
I suspect it is strongly dependant on the time of year I was listening to a talk the other day and they said that North of Birmingham in the winter months there is essentially no vit d produced.
I never get a tan skiing untill about mid feb at the earliest and I never bother with sunscreen.
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I can believe that about Birmingham and even London, where I live, but they're at low altitude and we'd be lucky if a smidgen of UV managed to penetrate the smog 
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I don't need to be up a mountain to be afflicted by flatulence. And I don't drink beer or eat particularly rich food on a regular basis, either.
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@Zero_G, my nose also turns into a tap in the mountains, or whenever I am outside in the cold, but your vaseline tip is certainly worth trying and would save me a fortune in tissues.
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| Zero_G wrote: |
| bagginsmum wrote: |
| Fatigue and aches and pains in joints can be a sign of vit D deficiency..... |
How the hell can anyone have vit D deficiency when exposed to all of that UV on a ski trip. If anything, the ski trip should reduce the deficiency and its symptoms. |
You can't make vitamin D if sun exposed skin is covered in sunscreen. Contemporary advice is to have 10 to 15minutes unprotected (no sunscreen) exposure of your skin to sunlight each day. But NOT your face and not in the mountains
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peanuthead, do hands count? I don't put sunscreen on my hands. If not, then I must be severely deficient because I certainly don't get sun exposure anywhere else during the season.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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welshskier, I use quite a thick layer of Vaseline. Feels weird at first.
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@Zero_G, thanks - found this online -" Could You Have Skier’s Nose?
Researchers have a name for a related syndrome linked to exercising outdoors in cold weather: Not surprisingly, it's called skier's nose. A 1991 study published in the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology found that nearly 100 percent of skiers complained about runny noses while participating in their sport.
While a runny nose is annoying in just about any season, it's not harmful. And if you're worried that you'll get a cold from being out in the cold, don't fret. That's a common myth, but experts believe the reason colds are more common in the winter is because we spend more time indoors around other people, who transmit their cold viruses to us by sneezing and leaving germs on surfaces that we touch.
If you're really bothered by your winter runny nose, try taking an over-the-counter decongestant. The prescription nasal sprays Ru-Tuss and Atrovent have also been found to be effective at drying up drippy noses.
Then there's always mom's advice: Before you go out in the cold, cover your nose and mouth with a scarf. Air breathed through fabric will be warmer and moister, which can cut down on those annoying drips."
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You know it makes sense.
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I know someone who has been severely infected by a debilitating case of Faffitus, causing him to adjust and re-adjust various bits of kit nervously and waste valuable skiing time.
Its a shocking affliction and the only cure is to ski off.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Kooky, they're usually boarders I've found
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Kooky, can't imagine who that might be... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kooky, I feel a name change request to admin may be in order 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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a debilitating case of Faffitus
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@Zero_G, good question. I don't know. But I suspect surface area of dorsums of hands would mean amount of vit D you could make would be much less then e.g. if forearms exposed.
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@Kooky, is that person a female?
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@peanuthead, not the last time I checked
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| Zero_G wrote: |
| bagginsmum wrote: |
| Fatigue and aches and pains in joints can be a sign of vit D deficiency..... |
How the hell can anyone have vit D deficiency when exposed to all of that UV on a ski trip. If anything, the ski trip should reduce the deficiency and its symptoms. |
well, indeed, that was my point. People who work inside all the time during the winter months are at risk of Vit D deficiency. Of course a week of sun skiing will help remedy that. the OP said that they spent most of the winter working indoors
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Of course a week of sun skiing will help remedy that
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not if you use sunscreen - Vit D deficiency seems a genuine problem
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Vitamin D deficiency versus skin cancer, I know which I'd prefer...
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