A young footballer died after drinking ice water at the end of the match

A 27 years old death d & # 39; a Cardiopulmonary Arrest after took chilled water after finishing playing football. The case has generated a concussion at Peru.

The victim has been identified as Ludwin Flores Note, who died in Lima on the 1st of May. The young man worked as a footballer on the Los Rangers team. After a match, "Luki", as his friends knew him, went home after a game and had a cold drink.

"Shortly after, he felt badly, with chest pain, and we took him to a clinic, but he died on the way," said his partner in the newspaper Perú 21 .

Before medical observation, there were many who did not hide their surprise at the fact that an action as habitual as refreshing after the sport had caused the death. It was not reported if the player had a heart fund or other.

The President of the Argentine Heart Foundation, Jorge TartaglioneHe explained to TN "Cold water may have caused vasospasm if she had a previous condition, but it is very rare, I have never heard of it, it is very likely that this boy was Sudden death after playing football. "

The specialist said there was a link between the unexpected deaths and the cold. "It has been widely studied that people who have already had heart problems, when they are in low-temperature countries such as the Nordic countries, are at a higher risk of sudden death," he said. -he explains.

The doctor noted that cold can trigger a vasospasmwhich is a contraction of the arteries. He himself can cause an arrhythmia, that is to say that the heart stops pumping the blood at a frequent and constant rate. And this factor can, in turn, lead to cardiac arrest. But this succession is "very improbable".

Cold causes contraction of the arteries and increases heart rate and blood pressure. However, the cardiologist has denied that drinking fresh fluid can put his life in danger: "You can drink cold water after training without problems