Extreme Exercise Leading To Sickness and Diarrhea, What Could Be The Problem?
A friend is on a long distance biking event, biking 90miles a day for 10 days. Now, at 5 days, he is experiencing sickness and diarrhea. Is this down to physical burnout or anything else and what is the remedy?
Tagged with: burnout • Diarrhea • long distance • remedy
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Is he replenishing his fluids and electrolytes? Often times when electrolytes are out of balance a person will get sick and have all sorts of symptoms, including but not limited to diarrhea.
Or it could be that he ate something that is causing this. Or it could be that the stress of the exercise coupled with exposure to the elements was just too much for his body and he got sick. Hard to say.
It’s probably a stomach virus - especially if he’s sharing toilets/washing facilities on a tour.
It will probably last for 48 hours or so - he will need extra salts/sugars and water from rehydration therapy sachets.
My husband used to cycle long distances/race and he used to get bouts of vomiting when extremely exhausted - but never diarrhoea.
i think it is just the physical burnout - but that’s only probable if your friend was not taking the same or similar levels of exercise before he started these 10 days of training you just talked about
staying hydrated the whole time and after the exercise should help and depending on his current diet, maybe cutting down on the fibre?