What should I do if I have abdominal pain after strenuous exercise?

Some people exercise to lose weight, while others exercise to get in shape. But sometimes, every time we finish exercising, we will experience short-term abdominal pain. Some people can relieve it after resting in place, but for others, it takes several minutes to relieve it. What is the reason? In fact, this is abdominal pain caused by gastrointestinal spasm after strenuous exercise. Gastrointestinal cramps are also caused by lack of exercise or poor preparation before exercise. How can we relieve them? Let's look at some information below.

Mitigation methods:

1. If you experience abdominal pain during exercise, you should not panic. You should slow down, jog, take deep breaths, and adjust your breathing and exercise rhythm.

2. Press the painful area with your hands, or bend over and jog for a distance. Generally, the abdominal pain can be relieved or disappear.

3. For patients with severe pain that is not relieved by the above method, you can take 0.3 mg of atropine tablets or 654-2 tablets of 10 mg orally, and the abdominal pain should stop.

4. If there is no medicine or the medicine is ineffective, you can also acupuncture the Zusanli, Neiguan, Dachangshu and other acupoints to relieve pain.

5. Apply hot compress to the painful area, or give local massage, use kneading, pressing, and back extension exercises to stretch the abdominal muscles.

6. If the abdominal pain persists or the abdomen feels like a "board", it may be a sign of peritonitis and you should go to the hospital for examination and treatment immediately.

7. Adhere to scientific training principles, gradually increase the exercise load, strengthen comprehensive physical training, and improve cardiopulmonary function. Good cardiopulmonary function can reduce liver and spleen congestion during exercise and reduce abdominal pain.

8. Sufficient warm-up can speed up the metabolic process in the body, improve the excitability and flexibility of the nervous system, ensure the coordinated work between organ systems, and play a coordinating role through muscle activity, so that the human body can enter the state of exercise as soon as possible, avoiding gastrointestinal ischemia and hypoxia caused by excessive exercise, resulting in gastrointestinal spasm or functional disorders.

The above is the information collected by the editor. To prevent gastrointestinal cramps after strenuous exercise, you should not drink too much water or eat too much before running. Keep your breathing rhythm while running. You should also warm up fully before running to avoid symptoms such as stomach cramps. Supplement salt in moderation to avoid salt deficiency. You should also exercise more often.