WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 1998: Re: blood? in urine post exercise

Re: blood? in urine post exercise

From: Joseph Pastorek, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 06:22:12 -0600 (CST)

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At Mon, 30 Mar 1998, camilla wrote: >
>I have passed very dark urine after exercise on three occasions
>recently. I am 24 weeks into 3rd pregnancy. Colour returned to normal
>following a couple of drinks of water. First two times I thought I was
>dehydrated - subsequently have ruled this out. My Dr. and midwife
>agree that the exercise I do (school my advanced dressage horse one hour
>per day six days a week) is fine as long as I'm comfortable. I rode
>(not as avidly) through both my previous pregnancies without incident,
>with healthy babies and intervention-free natural births. I was
>wondering if I could be bruising my bladder or kidneys - although I'd
>insist that horse riding (when experienced) is lower impact than
>power-walking, and definitely less so than aerobics or running. Most
>doctors have no real understanding of my sport and all I can rely on is
>anecdotal information from other riding women - all the other
>competitors I've taked to have ridden up until just before giving birth!
>I will have a check up in the next few days and will try to get a
>suitable urine sample for analysis, but meanwhile I'd really appreciate
>some informed feedback.

Camilla,

The first problem you're obviously addressing: IS IT REALLY BLOOD? You need to have an appropriate urinalysis to determine that, before you go worrying too much about it. Second, IF IT *IS* BLOOD, then what might it be? If riding horses is the associated activity, I would think you're much more likely to be bleeding from your bladder than from your kidneys. Also, you have to make sure it's urine/bladder, and not a bloody discharge/vagina. That would be worrisome in a pregnant woman.

So, first things first - get your urinalysis and then have your doctor check you over.

Dr. Joe

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