Despite the pain, he will be there. Gianmarco Tamberi, crowned Olympic high jump champion in Tokyo in 2021, will defend his title this Saturday evening at the Stade de France while he is suffering from renal colic. The Italian athlete, already hospitalized last weekend for kidney stones, returned to the hospital shortly before the competition in which he is participating due to similar health concerns.
“It’s been 10 hours and the renal colic has still not gone away,” Gianmarco Tamberi wrote in an Instagram post published shortly before 4pm on Saturday. “The pain I’ve been feeling since this morning, as strong as it is, is nothing compared to what I feel inside (…) I was just taken to the emergency room by ambulance after vomiting blood twice.” An hour later, the Italian posted again on the same social network with a short but clear message: “I’ll be there.”
Renal colic is an “acute, unilateral, lumbar pain,” we can read on the Health Insurance website. Ameli.fr. This pain is most often due to the presence of a stone in one of the two ureters, the channels that carry urine from the kidney to the bladder. If the crisis is accompanied by certain symptoms, health professionals recommend going to the emergency room, which is what Gianmarco Tamberi did.
A violent pain that appears suddenly
What are the symptoms of renal colic? According to Ameli, it is an intense pain, similar to a twist, which appears suddenly, mainly in the morning and at night. “It starts in the back, goes down and turns towards the abdomen, groin and genitals, and it manifests itself on one side only because the obstacle is present in the urinary tract either on the right or on the left,” we can read in addition, on the site.
Other symptoms are regularly observed in addition to pain, such as nausea or vomiting. Above all, renal colic makes you want to urinate very much, without it being possible to do so, thus causing an unpleasant sensation.
What can cause renal colic? The Health Insurance website lists the most common causes, such as “a recent and prolonged trip, a stay in a hot country, working in an overheated environment, a deviation from diet, prolonged immobilization (after an illness for example), a sporting activity associated with insufficient water consumption.” The results of Gianmarco Tamberi’s tests will allow us to know what caused this pain.
