Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Ensuring adequate hydration is extremely important for children and young athletes. Optimal hydration affects athlete performance. Dehydration, on the other hand, can cause negative consequences on performance in children and young athletes as well as in adults. Compared to adults, children and young athletes have some physiological differences. The number of sweat glands and sweating capacity of children and young athletes is less, therefore, the capacity to remove heat from the body by evaporation decreases. They produce more metabolic heat during physical activity. The surface area/body mass ratio is higher than in adults. This causes more heat retention in hot weather and more heat loss in cold weather. Because children have lower cardiac output than adults, they adapt to exercise in hot weather later than adults. Although children and young people use different thermoregulation mechanisms, it has been shown that the sweating mechanism is sufficient and does not have a negative effect on heat loss during exercise. While recommendations for fluid replacement in adults and young athletes are similar, studies have shown that current recommendations for fluid replacement in children are insufficient and more studies are needed. In this review, hydration, dehydration and its effects on athlete performance in children and young athletes are discussed.
Source: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Authors: Şentürk, Gözde, Yılmaz, Sine
Institution: Ankara Medipol Üniversitesi
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Physiology (medical)
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4283731968