So I’m sort of travelling around Europe and almost every time I’m outside in the cold (close to or slightly below freezing) I get a runny nose. I once tried a Sudafed to see if that had any effect but it didn’t and anyway, it’s dodgy taking drugs for something so trivial.
Is there any way to avoid this small problem or, does that I’m Australian and that it rarely got so cold where I grew up somehow mean that even in my fourth European winter I simply haven’t acclimatised to the slightly colder temperatures?
How do you guys’ noses handle it where you have so much snow in winter?
Just as a wild ass guess: I think that the cold sensitivity of the trigeminal nerve has something to do with getting a runny nose when it’s cool out. However, this search was inconclusive.
I think this thread might be better suited to IMHO, as the OP is looking for ways to deal with a runny nose rather than a reason for it.
IME, there is nothing to be done to stop it from happening. I was born and raised in Alaska and have had the nose-runs-in-cold-weather problem all my life. I’m very sensitive to it, in fact, and have to keep tissues on hand constantly–even in the summer, as air conditioning sometimes triggers The Drip.