Analysis of food and fluid intake in elite ultra-endurance runners during a 24-h world championship

Table 2 Symptoms declared by the participants during the race

	Gastrointestinal symptoms (GIS)					Other symptoms
Participant	Difficulty to swallow	Nausea	Vomiting	Diarrhea	All GIS	Muscular pain	Fainting
#1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
#2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
#3	1 (3)	0	0	0	1 (3)	3 (3–3-6)	0
#4	0	1 (2)	0	0	1 (2)	0	0
#5	1 (2)	1 (2)	0	0	2 (2–2)	1 (2)	0
#6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1 (0.5)^a
#7	0	0	0	1 (3)	1 (3)	0	0
#8	1 (3)	1 (4)	0	0	2 (3–4)	0	0
#9	0	0	0	0	0	1 (12)	0
#10	0	1 (3)	0	0	1 (3)	0	0
#11	0	0	0	1 (5)	1 (5)	1 (5)	0
#12	0	0	1 (3)	0	1 (3)	1 (6)	0
Total^b	3	4	1	2	8	5	1
%	25	33	8	17	67	42	8

The number of occurrence for each participant is indicated followed by the duration (in h) of each occurrence in brackets
^aFainting occured during the last hour of the race and lasted approximately 30 min until the end of the race
^bTotal number of participants experiencing the same symptom. The number of individual occurrences was not considered for the calculation

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