Heat Cramp and Soccer

by Taylor
(Barnesville)

About two years ago, during a recreational soccer game, we were out on the field when I suddenly began to get cramps in the lower left side of my stomach. We didn’t have any subs so I decided to stay in the game (despite that I was feeling pain) but just take it slow and easy. However, the pain just got worse and worse. Finally the game ended and I walked to the car throwing up.

My dad asked me what’s wrong and I told him how I felt. He figured some food would help me, but it didn’t so he called an ambulance and we met them in front of our house. They told my dad that I needed to be taken to the hospital. On my way there in the ambulance I was in so much pain.

I was throwing up all over the place and I couldn’t sit still because the pain was that bad. When I got to the hospital they did some tests and they determined that I had a heat cramp and I was severely dehydrated. They said that I didn’t drink enough water and that’s what caused it, so the moral of the story is drink PLENTY of fluids before and after a game even if you don’t feel that you need it!