What to do if you have abdominal pain during exercise?

In life, many of our friends have joined the ranks of sports, but some friends have reported that they find some pain in their middle during exercise. What is the reason for this? Can they still continue to exercise? What should they do? Let’s take a look at the editor’s introduction to this series of questions below!

reason:

1. Lack of exercise or low training level

2. Insufficient preparation

3. Poor physical condition, fatigue, mental stress

4. Having a bad breathing rhythm during exercise, increasing the speed too suddenly, eating too much before exercise, or participating in intense training and competition while hungry.

3. Prevention of abdominal pain during exercise

prevention:

First, adhere to scientific training principles, gradually increase the exercise load, strengthen comprehensive physical training, and improve cardiopulmonary function. Good cardiopulmonary function can reduce liver and spleen congestion during exercise and reduce abdominal pain.

Second, sufficient warm-up can speed up the body's metabolic process, improve the excitability and flexibility of the nervous system, ensure the coordinated work between organ systems, and play a coordinating role through muscle activity, so that the human body can enter the state of exercise as soon as possible, avoiding gastrointestinal ischemia and hypoxia caused by excessive exercise, resulting in gastrointestinal spasm or functional disorders.

Third, arrange your diet reasonably. Do not eat too much or drink too much water before exercise, especially drink a lot of cold drinks before exercise. You should rest for 1.5 to 2 hours after a meal before engaging in strenuous activities. Avoid eating foods that are easy to produce gas or difficult to digest before exercise, and do not participate in strenuous exercise on an empty stomach.

4. Pay attention to your breathing rhythm during exercise, and properly distribute your running speed during middle and long distance running to avoid respiratory muscle fatigue or spasm.

5. When exercising in summer, you should replenish salt appropriately to avoid water and salt metabolism disorders.

6. We should have a certain understanding of the students’ existing illnesses and advise them to seek medical treatment as soon as possible and avoid high-intensity physical activities before they are cured.

4 Treatment of abdominal pain during exercise

deal with:

1. Don't panic if you experience abdominal pain during exercise. You should slow down and jog, take deep breaths, and adjust your breathing and exercise rhythm.

Second, press the painful area with your hands, or bend over and jog for a distance. Generally, the abdominal pain can be relieved or disappear.

For the third case, if the pain is severe and the above method does not relieve it, you can take 0.3 mg of atropine tablets or 654-2 tablets of 10 mg orally, and the abdominal pain should stop.

Fourth, if there is no medicine or the medicine is ineffective, you can also acupuncture the Zusanli, Neiguan, Dachangshu and other acupoints to relieve pain.

5. Apply hot compress to the painful area, or give local massage, use kneading, pressing, and back extension exercises to stretch the abdominal muscles.

6. If the abdominal pain persists or the abdomen feels like a "board", it may be a sign of peritonitis and you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment immediately.

The above introduces some phenomena and treatment methods of abdominal pain during exercise. So if you also have such abdominal pain in your life, find out the cause as soon as possible and use the correct method to relieve it, which will definitely help your health.