Does water make you feel sick/nauseous
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Thank you to the non-anemic respondents - I am myself anemic and I do feel nauseous drinking plain water (when I am not supplementing iron) and I heard another anemic person mention the same. Yet, I can't seem to find any research on the topic.
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@kidskylark I missed your poll but another data point: it does make me feel sick if I haven't eaten recently enough. I'll feel a little queasy if a drink water when I get home if I say skipped lunch and haven't eaten since breakfast. The longer since food the worse the queasy (if I have to do a fasting thing for say 24 h water leaves me feeling like throwing up is a serious option, I have to eat something first no matter how dry my mouth might be).
ETA: I'm not anemic, but when I try to donate blood I regularly end up in the border zone where if they took blood I would be.
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@SRLevine Interesting data points!!! I wish I had a physiology research gig so I could look into this. It's shocking how little is known about this, but it causes me to be quite dehydrated as a child.
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@kidskylark I think the food thing might be sort of common? I had a lot of blood work when I was maybe 13 and there was a 24 h fast one and I was really thirsty and drank water after they were done with the draw and ended up in the bathroom trying not to throw up (not that there was anything to throw up). And no one was surprised by that? I remember this specifically because it was a whole production since it was during passover and I couldn't eat any of the provided snacks (for some reason they didn't have any fresh fruit) and my mom had to run out to the car to get me something to eat to settle my stomach.
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@SRLevine I think post-blood draw and fasting they expect some nausea as baseline, but also phlebotomists have a deep blood knowledge that I do not have, so maybe they know these secrets.
My nausea happens proportional to the purity of water in a beverage: the more water something is, the worse the nausea. Plain water is worst, I can handle maybe 2-3oz in a several-hour timespan. I can drink a lot of milk. Flavored water is close to water, lemonade and Gatorade are somewhere in between flavored water and milk, probably due to electrolytes.
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@kidskylark Interestingly milk is close to being blood in terms of pH and it does have some electrolytes and also fats and proteins. I wonder if it's the electrolytes or the protein in milk that make it ok? I'm going to try and remember to look this up when I get to work on Monday (I don't really want to try and get my computer to talk to scifinder tonight). If I don't follow up remind me? I feel like this must be in the literature somewhere
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@kidskylark
Water nausea is common after bariatric surgery. Many report that they can drink other liquids; it's just plain water that is a problem.
I know many patients also suffer from anemia after bariatric surgery.
It's an interesting observation.
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@MCDuncanLab See, that's really cool to know, and all the more reason to feel like there should be some sort of research on it. Thank you for sharing this!
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@kidskylark
Yeah, it's interesting, if you look at the medical web pages, they all say it's about stomach size. If you look at the patient redits, many patients are saying no, it's something special about plain water. They are probably both right.
I'm not a bariatric patient, but I suffer from dehydration fairly routinely (I'm probably more aware of being dehydrated because I get violently ill). So I know a bit about how hydration works; plain water is actually really hard to absorb.
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@MCDuncanLab That's really cool and definitely worth investigating. Sorry about your dehydration though! That is not fun at all.
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@kidskylark
Once I figured it out (mid-20s), I can usually catch myself getting dehydrated early enough.
If I slip up, I now know how to hydrate between nausea spells, so I don't have to go to the ER like I did when I was young.
Mainly, I have a window of about 20 minutes after emptying my stomach to down some dilute electrolytes. Eventually, I can get ahead of the dehydration that way.
I really wish my body had come with a manual; so much trial and error.
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@MCDuncanLab @kidskylark that's fascinating (and harrowing). What qualifies as a dilute electrolyte?
I also get nauseous from plain water but only after I'm dehydrated to a certain threshold. My overall reaction is just a killer headache and general fatigue though. Once I notice I'll force a little water right then, and then start spacing out smaller amounts of fluids.
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@MCDuncanLab @kidskylark The one and only time I got very hungover I also got nauseous from water for months after, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a feedback mechanism at play.
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Juice/gatorade diluted ~1/4 electrolyte 3/4 water.
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