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Football Player, Get Frequent Spells Of Dizziness On Low BP Followed By Headache. Can I Continue Playing?
Hey, I am 24 and I play womens tackle football. But I have really low blood pressure sometimes as low as 80/40. Some days I can get really dizzy and I have to stop what im doing until the dizziness goes away. And after games I have very bad headaches for the next couple days. I have a game this saturday.. Should I continue to play? If not what test can I have done with my doctor?
Mon, 25 Jun 2012
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to be an athlete is a good habit and it prevents you from different problems and diseases like cardiac diseases, respiratory diseases, diabetes, bone and muscle pain and slows your aging process. so, no doctor will recommend you to stop your sports. actually what happens is while you play your sports you sweats too much as compare to your normal sweat loss during which you loss most of your electrolytes including salts and glucose which results in fatigue, drowsiness, headache and lethargy. for confirmation you can perform serum electrolytes to get your electrolytes values. to overcome the symptoms you need to increase you fluid intake up to 3-5 liters per day including fruit and citric juices and keep your body re hydrated.
thanks
wish you good health
dr.ishfaq
welcome to HCM
to be an athlete is a good habit and it prevents you from different problems and diseases like cardiac diseases, respiratory diseases, diabetes, bone and muscle pain and slows your aging process. so, no doctor will recommend you to stop your sports. actually what happens is while you play your sports you sweats too much as compare to your normal sweat loss during which you loss most of your electrolytes including salts and glucose which results in fatigue, drowsiness, headache and lethargy. for confirmation you can perform serum electrolytes to get your electrolytes values. to overcome the symptoms you need to increase you fluid intake up to 3-5 liters per day including fruit and citric juices and keep your body re hydrated.
thanks
wish you good health
dr.ishfaq
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