High Intensity Sports Can Cause Kidney Disorders

Not only a light sport like running or cycling, nowadays more and more people are also fond of sports with high intensity.

Not only done in the gym, sports with high intensity can also be done outdoors or in the nature.

Exercise with high intensity can provide a good health impact for the body. However, there is a big risk to kidney health if we often exercise with high intensity.

Health expert, Tunggul Situmorang, mentions that high-intensity exercise has the risk of rupturing the skeletal muscles.

If this happens, our blood flow can become dirtier and ultimately impact on the failure of acute heart function.

The rupture of these skeletal muscles often occurs in high-intensity sports lovers who suffer from fluid deficiency and rhabdomyolysis, a condition where the muscles are too tired and have tissue destruction so that muscle fibers can possibly be mixed into the bloodstream.

According to Situmorang, if a person has kidney failure, urine secreted usually have a unique color like redder because of a mixture of blood.

The volume of urine released also tends to decrease. Sports lovers who experience this symptom is advised to check this condition to doctor because it may be a symptom that kidney has lost its function as a blood filter.

30 percent of people with rhabdomyolysis have a high risk of kidney failure that can last for hours or days.

Rhabdomyolysis, diseases that start with a sense of fatigue, nausea, chest pain, and swelling of some body parts can turn out to be very deadly.

In order to prevent this, it's good if we start to reduce physical activity that has excessive intensity.

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If we have a hobby of this sport, it is advised that we should start to increase body fluid intake up to 2.5 liters per day.