In the hospital, there was another patient in the same room as my husband Ray.
Ray and the other patient had a conversation about what had happened after both of their conditions were starting to getting better.
and the patient told his amazing story of what had happened.
Exercise is often considered as healthy and required to have good health.
However, in this patient's case, it's the exercise that got him into big kidney trouble.
The patient was doing an intense type of fitness program.
On the first day of this new fitness program, he had not drank enough water.
He loves to drink tomato juice. ( and tomato juice is apparently not good for weak kidneys )
In that day, he was doing this fitness training, but after finished, he started feeling nauseous.
He was in his car with his wife, and he said, we need to go the hospital, something's wrong !
By the time they got there, his skin was a pale white, and his lips looked like changing color to a bluish tint.
Doctors later told him that he had a form of Rhabdomyolysis, caused by intense exercise and dehydration.
I looked up some information on this, and I found the following.
Rhabdomyolysis is a condition in which damaged skeletal muscle tissue breaks down rapidly.
Any form of muscle damage of sufficient severity can cause rhabdomyolysis .
Common and important causes are extreme physical exercise (particularly when poorly hydrated), delirium tremens (alcohol withdrawal), tetanus, prolonged seizures.
Breakdown products of damaged muscle cells are released into the bloodstream;
some of these, such as the protein myoglobin, are harmful to the kidneys and may lead to kidney failure.
The severity of the symptoms, which may include muscle pains, vomiting,
and confusion, depends on the extent of muscle damage and whether kidney failure develops.
The patient said that he experienced fluid built up which cause swelling all over the body.
He said doctors had to do an operation to relieve the fluid build up and the swelling and they had to do it while he was upside down, to ease pressure on his lungs.
He then had to undergo about a week of dialysis.
By the time Ray left the hospital, this patient was doing much better.
Hopefully, he was able to be discharged from hospital very soon after that.
The story of the patient's experience made us a big surprise as well, so I wanted to share this information.
My point of sharing this information is to be aware that too much intensive exercise without water can be very dangerous.