High Intensity of Exercise and Ischemic Colitis

ABSTRACT Many of scientific evidence suggest that physical exercise has beneficial effects by increase aerobic capacity, prevents the progression of disability, reduces the risk factors of cardiovascular and endocrine disease, improves gastrointestinal function, lessen anxiety and depression, and results in promote health. However, the effect of exercise on gastrointestinal tract also has an adverse effect. Ischemic colitis is one of these. With the increasing popularity of endurance competition among the population, gastrointestinal (GI) complaints are very common, especially in endurance athletes and often impaired performance or subsequent recovery. The symptoms may include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. Because of blood flow to gastrointestinal tracts is reduced during an exercise and this is believed to the process of development of GI symptoms. In generally, ischemic colitis, after vigorous physical exercise, is reversible or irreversible depend on the onset of ischemic occur but it can indeed be serious and life threatening. The case we present in this paper highlight on how exercise inducing ischemic colitis and the other conceivable factor. This review is focus on the prevalence of colitis in athletes, pathophysiology and the treatments of colitis. However, the all clear mechanism of the pathology and the actual prevalence need still further investigate