If you like sports, it is very likely that at some point you have had an ice cold drink to cool off. Maybe you had no problems, but cases of deaths have been reported, such as that of Ludwin Flores Nole, 27, who did not survive the temperature shock.
After playing a soccer game, Flores returned home. He greeted his wife, took a bottle of water that was in the fridge, and swallowed the liquid. Before long, he began to feel bad. I can not stand. He died on the way to the hospital.
This happened last year in the department of Piura, in northwestern Peru.
His relatives said that the doctor explained that Ludwin “He had suffered a sudden respiratory arrest due to drinking too cold water while his body was warm.”
This case is known as digestion cut, and it is not usual for cold water to be given. But if the liquid comes into contact with the hot body, it could generate complications, according to an Infobae note, which adds about the case of the young Peruvian who, after physical exercise, ice water caused a cardiovascular reflex of nervous cause that caused an alteration in your heart rate.
“It is said that with sports practice it is possible to lose two to four liters of water every hour, so it is very common for a person to drink water immediately after training. However, specialists recommend that it be done in a moderate way already room temperature “is mentioned.
The portal 20 minutes reports in a publication that this problem is rare, but it can be dangerous because an alteration of the heart rhythm can occur and even with a cardiac arrest in extreme cases, more so if the individual enters a body of water frost. (I)
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