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Q: What chemical build up causes muscle fatigue and muscle cramps?
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What is muscle cramps?

Muscles cramps occur when a muscle contracts and does not relax. This causes pain in one or sometimes multiple muscles.


What causes muscle fatigue and how do you know if you are expreiencing muscle fatigue?

By a muscle that fails to relax completely resulting in the muscle going into spasm.


What causes a muscle to lose its ability to contract?

Muscle loss. Have you not been eating?


What chemical is in high concentration in a fatigue muscle?

Lactic acid


What is it that causes cramps?

There are a number of causes of cramps. Some causes can be being dehydrated, taking shallow breaths, over stretching of a muscle or exercising for too long.


What inhibits muscular contraction?

Muscle fatigue has a number of causes including ion imbalance within the muscle or nervous fatigue. And most importantly, from the accumulation of lactic acid in the muscle.


What are the clinical symptoms of hypokalemia?

Weakness, Fatigue, Muscle cramps, Constipation, Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) are symptoms are hypokalemia.


What causes nerve irritability and painful muscle cramps from having hypocalcemia?

Tetany


When fermentation occurs in muscle cells muscle fatigue is called by the production of?

Lactic acid builds up and causes muscle burn.


What is fibermyosis?

Fibermyosis is a syndrome that causes chronic muscle pain and fatigue. Sometimes it can cause weakening muscle pain.


What deficiency causes muscle cramps?

Magnesium deficiency can cause muscle cramping. Potassium deficiency can, as well. These are minerals, not vitamins.


What substance causes pain in the muscle after hard work?

Lactic acid. While it doesn't actually cause pain by itself (it causes muscle fatigue), a buildup of it can.