Can drinking cold water after workout lead to cardiac arrest?

The young Peruvian Ludwin Flores Nole, 27, has died as a result of cardiorespiratory arrest after playing football. The doctors who treated him said that the episode of the episode could have been drinking cold water after doing some exercise.

"The doctor told us that he had suffered sudden cardiac arrest," his wife told the newspaper. Peru 21. According to this doctor, taking cold water with the body, even at high temperatures, "cut digestion", a cardiovascular reflex that led to a disruption of the heart rhythm.

But is it really possible that drinking almost frozen liquid after training triggers cardiac arrest? The President of the Argentine Cardiovascular Society (MN: 67502), Jorge Tartaglione, explained to Comfort: "It may be that cold water caused vasospasm if it had already had a health problem, but it is very rare. I had never heard him speak. It is very likely that this boy suffered a 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 like the Nordic countries, have a higher risk of sudden death"He said.

Tartaglione indicated that cold can trigger a vasospasmwhich is a contraction of the arteries. This can cause arrhythmiathat is to say, the heart stops pumping the blood at a frequent and constant rate. And this factor can, in turn, lead to a heart failure. But this succession is "very improbable".

Cold causes contraction of the arteries and increases heart rate and blood pressure. However, the cardiologist denied that drinking fresh fluid could be fatal: "You can drink cold water after training without any problem"

Regarding the case of the young Peruvian, Tartaglione said that sudden death "is common among young people who are not fit." In Argentina 40 thousand a year are registered for this reason, which represents one every 15 minutes.