When is sports unhealthy?

Opposers of medical doctor Ursula Hildebrant are very small, seen only under a microscope. However, they may even kill you. These are microbes that through the bloodstream reach the heart and cause inflammation.

Ursula Hildebrant works at the School of Sports and Physical Education at Köln. It cures athletes who are sick of muscle inflammation in the heart. If it comes to this disease, the heart can no longer pump enough blood into the organism.

In principle, everyone can be affected by this disease. And the athletes, and the people who every day sit on the couch”, said Hildebrant for DW. However, athletes and physically active people are more vulnerable to danger. In many cases, the inflammation of the heart muscle, the miocarditis, comes when people start exercising with high intensity after they have overcome any infection.

When is sports dangerous? When the organism is weakened by disease. In principle, each organism is more susceptible to infections right after sporting activities because the blood then passes through the heart faster.

Behind heart valves are the vortex attached to the flowing blood. Thus, inflammation triggers may be easier to find and remain in space right away under the valve. The result of this can be the inflammation of the heart muscle.

Therefore, it is very important that any disease is skipped” correctly. Before starting, for example, running, at least two days must pass by the last high temperature you've had. In addition, during the nose wipers with bandages there should be no yellow-geal mark left. This is a sign that bacteria are still in the organism,

For Ursula Hildebrant, a particular problem is what causes heart muscle inflammation causes various symptoms. They start from “to respiratory shortages” and chest pains to increased tension and perspiration at night.

That is why accurate diagnosis often comes too late. This may be a real clock bomb: If the sufferer is suddenly exposed to physical fatigue, the undiscovered inflammation of heart muscle can cause heart failure and death.

German athlete Rene Herms in 2000 was found dead in his apartment. The autopsy has proven the real cause of death. Herms had died because of the undiscovered inflammation of the muscle in his heart and died after the train.

The same could have happened to Fabian Spinrath. There are many trophies and medals on the shelf in his room. It all started out that this 18-year-old athlete after a race felt really tired.

This is common, but it's normal for fatigue to leave after ten minutes off. After the race I slept five hours”, writes Fabian.

His doctor thought it was an infection and described antibiotics. After a month and a half of symptoms had not yet disappeared, detailed checks showed that he was sick of heart muscle inflammation.

Six months full of training. He went to the apartment with a lift instead of a ladder. Run, stop! In the meantime, the heart muscle has recovered and continued to pursue sports.

“If it had begun to exercise before this described pause, it could have caused long-term heart damage”, Ursula Hildebrant warns. It says that each disease is a separate case, but it is largely worth rules that are necessary for at least six months to abstain from sports and alcohol.

Also, it is important to rest and sleep as much as possible.

The opponents of Ursula Hidebrant may even be microscopically small, but you can protect yourself: any infection must be passed over and the signals sent to us must be heard well. /Telegraphy/