Such exercise to lose weight can actually cause kidney failure

Losing weight is an eternal topic for young girls. In order to shape a slim figure, it can only be achieved through fitness exercises. However, experts remind people not to over-exercise when exercising to lose weight, otherwise they may lose their lives. According to media reports, an 18-year-old school girl in Suzhou recently did 45 minutes of intense cycling exercise the night before in order to lose weight. She then went out for an outing the next day. When she came back at night, she felt sore in both lower limbs. She was sent to the hospital and was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis syndrome, which almost caused kidney failure.

Intense exercise may cause rhabdomyolysis

Unscientific exercise training can lead to energy depletion of the body, increased free radical production, and enhanced tissue permeability, thereby causing the release of inflammatory factors and causing muscle tissue damage. Some patients even develop complications such as acute renal failure and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.

The myoglobin in the muscles will form crystals in the renal tubules, blocking the tubules and affecting kidney function. Myoglobin flows into the kidneys and is also toxic to the kidneys, causing hemoglobinuria in mild cases and renal failure in severe cases. Rhabdomyolysis often occurs in young people in their 20s. Excessive exercise disrupts the body's own harmony and is even more harmful than no exercise. To avoid over-exercise, exercise gradually and within your capacity. Fitness enthusiasts should expand their sports repertoire to avoid sports fatigue caused by a single sport.

According to the doctor's analysis, the reason why the girl suffered from severe rhabdomyolysis syndrome was mainly due to her lack of exercise in daily life and sudden large-scale intense exercise, which caused her body functions to be unable to adapt for a while and then caused rhabdomyolysis syndrome. An increase in creatine kinase means an increase in myosin in the body's body fluids, which may eventually cause myosin to block the renal tubules, making it impossible for the body to urinate normally, leading to renal necrosis and renal failure.

Experts remind girls not to do too much exercise to lose weight. They should replenish water in time after exercise and not let their bodies be dehydrated to reduce acute renal failure caused by rhabdomyolysis.

So, how do you determine if you're exercising too much? According to experts, there are several reactions after excessive exercise that we can feel immediately, including dizziness, difficulty breathing, disorientation, mental confusion, rapid heart beat and dehydration. At the same time, if you become easily agitated or depressed, have poor sleep quality, listlessness, drowsiness, accompanied by weight loss, decreased appetite, and frequent illnesses, then it also means that you are exercising too much.

Glossary:

Rhabdomyolysis syndrome refers to a series of genetic or acquired diseases that affect the skeletal muscle cell membrane, membrane channels and their energy supply, leading to skeletal muscle damage, changes in cell membrane integrity, and leakage of cell contents (such as myoglobin, creatine kinase, small molecules, etc.), often accompanied by acute renal failure and metabolic disorders.

The causes of rhabdomyolysis syndrome are relatively complex. Common causes include excessive exercise, muscle crush injury, ischemia, metabolic disorders (hypokalemia, hypothyroidism, diabetic ketoacidosis), extreme body temperature (high fever, low fever), drugs, poisons, autoimmunity, infection, etc.