Hi ! My name is Lisa and my daughter Samantha is 13 and joined a swim team this year. She was doing amazing and had moved up to the main level but then hurt her wrist and has been out for 3 months. We are back for the last few weeks and I am baffled by what is going on when we come home from practice. Sam gets home from school at 3 and has swim practice from 5-7. She comes home from school starving and has a whole wheat bagel with a banana and a cheese stick. I am afraid to give her dinner because I was told she could throw up. We come from the world of competition dance where all you do is eat eat and eat. When we come home at 7:00 after practice she is so hungry but then she sits down and says she can't eat. She almost feels very gassy and like she could throw up.
Is this normal? She has no eating issues any other time so I have to believe it stems from the swimming. The practice is an intense non- stop 2 hours. I don't know what to do. I am hoping someone will be kind enough to guide me.
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Thanks for the quick responses. So are you saying when you refer to electrolytes that I should give her something like gatorade to drink during practice? Right now I give her vitamin water but she barely touches it.
Would she throw up if I fed her dinner at 3:00 when she came home? Would the two hours be enough time to digest without getting sick. I am so afraid that she would puke in the pool.
Vitamin water, gatorade, smart water, potato chips, most prepared food, they all have electrolytes. You will have to ask her why she isn't drinking the vitamin water. If she just wants pure water during practice, she can always eat saltier foods pre practice.
Do you own a scale? Have her weigh herself before and after practice. That weight loss should (assuming no limbs were lost during practice) be water. If it is more than 2% bodyweight, she isn't getting enough electrolytes pre-workout or enough fluids during workout. Whatever her weight loss was should to be made up with fluids before sleep.
Thanks for the quick responses. So are you saying when you refer to electrolytes that I should give her something like gatorade to drink during practice? Right now I give her vitamin water but she barely touches it.
Would she throw up if I fed her dinner at 3:00 when she came home? Would the two hours be enough time to digest without getting sick. I am so afraid that she would puke in the pool.
Vitamin water, gatorade, smart water, potato chips, most prepared food, they all have electrolytes. You will have to ask her why she isn't drinking the vitamin water. If she just wants pure water during practice, she can always eat saltier foods pre practice.
Do you own a scale? Have her weigh herself before and after practice. That weight loss should (assuming no limbs were lost during practice) be water. If it is more than 2% bodyweight, she isn't getting enough electrolytes pre-workout or enough fluids during workout. Whatever her weight loss was should to be made up with fluids before sleep.
