13 Iowa Football Players Hospitalized With Kidney Condition

[bri]

I heard this yesterday and thought this was really unusual. It is supposedly a result of their workouts. I didn't post this under the sports forum because the illness is the focal point, not the sport.





http://www.foxnews.c...s-hospitalized/

 

[sth]

I wonder what causes that? Is it working out too hard or lack of water or something?

 

[TSD]

Im going to assume its something they are taking, not the work out. I am no doctor, but I have never heard of any sort of exercise even if excessive, causing kidney damage. Considering, Kidney damage CAN be caused by ingesting bad things.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Steroids?

 

[MassHavoc]

Some people are jumping to steroids, but others have suggested this could be something as simple as misuse of creatine as well. No matter what it is, it's fucked up and not normal. Trying to blame this on over exhaustion from working out is just ridiculous. 1 -2 maybe, but 12, all at the same time and the same day? They may have all worked out too hard to trigger this, but something had to be going on already in order to lead to the environment where this could happen.

 

[Shantz My Pants]

This is one reason I refuse to take any supplements outside of a basic multi-vitamin and whey protein. About 90% of these powders and pills are not FDA approved. Nobody knows what the effect of these things are 20 years of continued use will do to your body. I'd rather build muscle and workout naturally then get jacked a couple months quicker.

 

[winos5]

My money is on excessive body building supplement use.



It can happen just with just exercize but it generally takes a combination of high heat(90s-100sF), poor hydration and excessive exercize.

 

[TSD]

Some people are jumping to steroids, but others have suggested this could be something as simple as misuse of creatine as well. No matter what it is, it's fucked up and not normal. Trying to blame this on over exhaustion from working out is just ridiculous. 1 -2 maybe, but 12, all at the same time and the same day? They may have all worked out too hard to trigger this, but something had to be going on already in order to lead to the environment where this could happen.

Thats the thing, when i was in the Army, I swore they were trying to kill us sometimes and I suffered no ill effects on top of that add sleep deprivation into the mix.

 

[Shantz My Pants]

My money is on excessive body building supplement use.



It can happen just with just exercize but it generally takes a combination of high heat(90s-100sF), poor hydration and excessive exercize.

I can't tell you how many kids when I was in high school (mainly football players, but I'm not here to generalize) who took more then what was supposed to be used.



Shit, even some of these multi-vitamins like GNC's brand for example, have you taking about 400x the daily needed value of vitamins you need.

 

[Pez68]

Thirteen now, apparently. This many, all at the same time, absolutely HAS to be drug related. Just working out would not affect this many athletes. I don't care what kind of workout you're doing.

 

[MassHavoc]

The players have rhabdomyolysis, a stress-induced syndrome that can damage cells and cause kidney damage and even failure in severe cases, school spokesman Tom Moore said at a news conference two days after players were hospitalized at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

School officials said the players, whom they would not identify, were in stable condition and responding well to treatment, which includes bed rest and the administration of hydrating fluids. Moore said he did not know when the players would be discharged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis

 

[TSD]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis

Considering the common physical causes for this, I doubt it was their workout. I highly doubt anything in their workout was akin to a car accident, stroke, earthquake, etc etc.

 

[Shantz My Pants]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis

Still very odd how 12 of them all came down with the same thing at once...

 

[bri]

Maybe they ate some of Flav's chicken. One can only wonder what kinds if "Herbs and Spices" are in that.

 

[MassHavoc]

Still very odd how 12 of them all came down with the same thing at once...

Now lucky number 13.

 

[Rex]

Steroids. It would have to be. I find it hard to believe that 13 people were taking creatine and not properly hydrated.

 

[MassHavoc]

The school is doing an investigation to be completed no more than 90 days from now. Unfortunately we probably will never know the truth until the lawsuits start coming.

 

[Shantz My Pants]

The school is doing an investigation to be completed no more than 90 days from now. Unfortunately we probably will never know the truth until the lawsuits start coming.

The NCAA is just as crooked as politicians. The whole OSU bullshit was a joke just as most of their rulings.



If it is because of some kind of P.E.D., even if it's legal, they won't leak that information because they don't want to give the school a black eye.

 

[MassHavoc]

The NCAA is just as crooked as politicians. The whole OSU bullshit was a joke just as most of their rulings.



If it is because of some kind of P.E.D., even if it's legal, they won't leak that information because they don't want to give the school a black eye.

It's not the NCAA it's the school. This is coming from the Board of Regeants and the School president who called this "a cause for grave concern." Will be run with independent experts, so now it's a matter of how much booster money they want to sink into this to make it go away.

 

[MassHavoc]

And the plot thickens





Report: Iowa players test negative for illegal drugs

January 27, 2011 7:13 PM | No Comments | UPDATED STORY The Sporting News reports: Tests for illegal drugs on the 13 hospitalized Iowa football players all have come back negative, a source with knowledge of the situation said.



The tests were issued at the behest of doctors at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to help determine causes of the muscle and kidney ailment that brought the players to the hospital. Cocaine and other amphetamines are known to exacerbate cases of rhabdomyolysis, the condition that likely befell the players after intense offseason workouts in the last week.



Doesn't say if this includes PEDs or supplements...