{"id":340598,"date":"2026-03-21T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340598\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:19:10","slug":"doctor-suggests-proper-rest-and-hydration-to-help-prevent-exercise-induced-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340598\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Suggests Proper Rest and Hydration to Help Prevent Exercise-Induced Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might think you\u2019re giving your body a good workout, but going too hard, too fast can do more harm than good to the body.<\/p>\n

NL Health Services is reporting an increase in the number of cases of rhabdomyolysis, a condition often caused by intense exercise.<\/p>\n

The condition can cause muscle cells to leak into the bloodstream and damage kidneys \u2013 putting one at risk of needing dialysis. In some cases, it can be fatal.<\/p>\n

Dr. Richard Barter, clinical chief of emergency medicine at NLHS, says rhabdo is nothing new, but more physicians have been contacting him about the condition in recent months.<\/p>\n

That prompted him to dig a little deeper into the number of cases being reported. Twenty cases have been identified in the Eastern-Urban zone since October.<\/p>\n

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So far, no patients have died or had to resort to dialysis.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s unclear why doctors are seeing more cases of rhabdo, Dr. Barter believes social media may be playing a hand in it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do see a lot of activity on social media regarding exercise classes and activities and people posting the number of reps they\u2019ve done or the number of RPMs they\u2019ve reached during a class. I guess that prompts a little bit of friendly competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says exercise is vital for keeping in good health, but it must be done safely with proper rest and hydration.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t exercised in a while, Dr. Barter says it\u2019s key to ease yourself back into your workout routine and no t to push it. It\u2019s important to avoid high-intensity workouts without rest days in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might think you\u2019re giving your body a good workout, but going too hard, too fast can do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-340598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}