This is a medical disorder that involves the breakdown of your skeletal muscle at a rapid pace. The word comes from Greek terms which are rhabdomyo<\/em> which means \u201cskeletal muscle\u201d and lysis<\/em> which means breakdown. Your skeletal muscle is a type of muscle that is made of muscle fibers and is what helps your skeleton to move at the joints. When a person gets this medical disorder the skeletal muscle starts to break down and is released into your bloodstream. Some of these components can include myoglobin, phosphate, and potassium. Myoglobin is a protein that is found in your urine and when the levels increase due to the destruction of your skeletal muscles, your kidneys can be damaged. If your kidneys find it hard to filter your blood every day it could lead to kidney failure.<\/p>\n People who have this medical disorder will often experience pain, weakness, and swelling in their lower back, arms, or legs. Some of the other symptoms you might have can include:<\/p>\n As the rhabdomyolysis becomes worse it could harm your lungs which can lead to problems with your breath. If you have swollen feet and hands that could be an indication of fluid retention from your kidneys not working correctly or actual kidney failure. There have even been instances of a person going into shock from having this medical disorder. This could be because your levels of important nutrients that you body needs are particularly low, especially calcium and potassium.<\/p>\n There are many different reasons that a person might suffer from rhabdomyolysis which can include:<\/p>\n If you have suffered from any of the above possible causes your physician may suspect that you have rhabdomyolysis. Your physician will also take your medical history of past and recent events to see if any of the possible causes have happened to you along with a physical exam. They will also do urine and blood testing to confirm the diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis. It is confirmed by detecting any elevated muscle enzymes in your blood. If your skeletal muscles have destroyed the levels of these muscle enzymes will start to increase. The level of Creatine Kinase<\/em> (CK) in your blood is the most reliable test that is used to diagnose rhabdomyolysis with levels five times the normal amount. These higher levels of CK can also indicate that there is a greater chance of having acute kidney failure. There may also be an elevated level of myoglobin in your urine and blood as well.<\/p>\n In the later stages of rhabdomyolysis your physician can diagnose it by identifying deteriorating function of your kidney(s). Your physician can tell this by having an elevated level of urea and creatinine along with having darkened urine that has a red-pink hue, and urine output is failing and decreasing. Your potassium levels may be high along with low calcium levels. Approximately twenty-five percent of the people with rhabdomyolysis have abnormal liver function tests because of damage to their liver.<\/p>\n Once you have been officially diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis in order to get a positive outcome it is important that you have rapid treatment. One easy way to help prevent any life-threatening complications for the disintegration of skeletal muscle is to start practicing generous hydration as soon as you can. Many are treated with intravenous hydration, which is where you will get these fluids directly into your blood vessels through a tub. Doing this will help to reduce any harmful side effects of myoglobin, When you are increasing the fluids intravenously it helps to get rid of the myoglobin, especially the increased amount.<\/p>\n Other treatments can include:<\/strong><\/p>\n The most important thing to remember is to keep your body properly hydrated at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is Rhabdomyolysis? This is a medical disorder that involves the breakdown of your skeletal muscle at a rapid pace. The word comes from Greek terms which are rhabdomyo which means \u201cskeletal muscle\u201d and lysis which means breakdown. Your skeletal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diseases-and-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rhabdomyolysis Symptoms<\/h2>\n
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