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If these teenage girls had not be treated in a timely fashion the kidney damage could have become permanent, or even fatal.
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2 Teens Hospitalized with Kidney Damage After Doing 1,000 Squats Apiece
Two teenagers in China ended up in the intensive care unit after doing too many squats, chinapress.com reported.
... The two teen girls were literally squatting over and over again, 1,000 times apiece, in a contest to see who could flex their glutes the longest.
Both girls won, apparently, agreeing to a ceasefire after their reps reached quadruple digits. However, about two days later, they both lost.
One of the girls reported intense soreness in her legs and found she was unable to bend them. When she saw that her urine had turned brown, she had her boyfriend take her to the hospital. The girl was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, which is basically an extreme version of what already happens in the body after physical exertion, Dr. Bruce Cohen, a medical officer for the FBI, told Live Science. Anytime you go on a long run or lift weights, your muscles break down, sending a protein called myoglobin through the bloodstream and to your kidneys, which filter them out. In fact. If you were to measure the amount of muscle protein in your blood after a 5-mile run, say, it would certainly be higher than before you began, he added. The difference is that with rhabdomyolysis, your kidneys can't handle the sheer quantity of dead muscle fibers. ...
"The kidneys get gummed up, and they start to fail," Cohen said.
Tang and her friend were lucky: Normally, "by the time you're peeing brown, it's too late," Cohen said.
The girls were transferred to intensive care soon after their diagnoses and hooked up to IVs to help clear the protein from their system. ....
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