After being rushed to hospital with a heart rate of 300 beats per minute, a reader’s 10-year-old granddaughter was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia (SVT).  She has been put on beta-blockers for two years, but the medication is causing terrible mood swings.  Does anyone have any ideas for either the SVT or the mood swings?

“I had a similar condition that I experienced for years,” says one reader.  “I found that by lying down with my head below my feet (on an incline) that I could end the episode.  Also, after the diet ‘The Zone’ came out I gave it a try for weight control. One of the benefits I found was that the tachycardia problem went away entirely.  Perhaps this will work for your granddaughter as well.”

Nevertheless, it maybe best to consult a qualified nutritionist before putting your granddaughter on this diet. 

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Such symptoms are clearly due to the body's regulatory function. The mood swings appear to be the mirror of the body's health. Virtual Scanning, which allegedly regulates the function of the body's physiological systems, may be an option.

Graham

I had a similar condition that I experienced for years. I found that by lying down with my head below my feet (on an incline) that I could

end the episode.  Also, after the diet "The Zone" came out I gave it a try for weight control. One of the benefits I found was that the tachycardia

problem went away entirely. Perhaps this will work for your granddaughter as well. Good luck!

I found after 5 A@E visits some two years later I gave up medication.Need to snort my nose(as in diving) or passenger flying. But oabove all a little potassium for a few weeks succeded in stopping it altogether.Tablets were bnot the answer. I am sure the medication did no goodBrian Cox

Hi, I recently had a couple of patients with tachycardia conditions. Both have responded very well to Kosmed treatment (also known as Scenar) and one spectacularly so, both have/had underlying causative agents but the Kosmed helped the symptoms whilst we address(ed) the causes. So, hunt out your local Kosmed practitioner - 2 cents from me. Stephen Macallan

I have a friend who has/had SVT and she said that she stumbled across a natural way to control it - by cooling herself off with a cold shower - she said that when she started shivering the SVT subsided.  Maybe this can help.

I also had this condition for many years.  It is often affected by weather conditions, and I would strongly recommend your grand-daughter is encouraged to be calm if there are storms around.    In a child, after a short period of fast heart rate, there is a tendency for panic to set in, which serves to increase the heart rate further.  Reiki healing is really helpful.  My tachycardia was cured a number of years ago by surgical ablation - again Reiki made the whole process much easier.

I guess that the child is eating a wholefood vegetarian diet and is exercising adequately.  If not, these are clearly essential for her future health.

Learning to relax and yoga breathing, under guidance if necessary, may help to ease the symptoms, and may even make deeper changes.

I assume that the patient is eating a wholefood vegetarian diet and is exercising regularly.  If not these are the first essentials. Guidance can be obtained from book, or a specialised nutritionist if you have an alternative/ complimentary centre nearly.

Learning relaxation and yoga breathing may assist the girl to control symptoms and even reach the root cause.  There are teachers to help, if needed.

Hi

Our son has also suffered with SVT - mainly in his first year of life when he was prescribed flecanide.  It took ages for anyone to even believe that there was anything wrong with him because the SVT made him very sick and the violence of the vomiting had corrected his heart-rate by the time a Doctor arrived and being a baby he couldn't tell anyone!  After a year he was taken off the medication to see what would happen and has not needed to go back on it again since.  He is now 11 years old.  However, he does still have the occasional 'do' and we have found that putting a packed of frozen peas on the top of his head and sitting him down quietly does the trick.  We have bought special packs which once activate by shaking freeze immediately, for him to use if he is out playing or away from a freezer!

I think it depends on how often the attacks happen as to if medication is necessary.  We were told that we needed to consider the effect the SVT had on our son's life and the possible side-effects of medication and to decide on the best course of action for him.  We were also told that stress may possibly bring on attacks but have not found that to be the case here. 

Have you tried lowering the dose of medication or even taking her off it to see what happens - frequency of occurence etc. ? obviously with the Doctor's approval and support.   

 

 

Beta-blockers for a 10 year old child; no wonder she is going crazy! Google for the adverse side-effects of this drug or get a copy of the BNF to see what it says about it. Her diet is probably the cause of her heart problem; especially today's processed-foods that most people eat and all those poisoned soft-drinks! Start preparing and cooking food for her in the traditional manner without the use of ployunsaturated or trans fats. Try to ramp-down where possible on her carbohydrate intake and stop the morning cereals. Throw-away the microwave. Increase saturated fat and red meat in her diet (the traditional diet that brought us humans to this stage of survival as a species) and consider for a short spell providing her with the nutrient CO-Q10 at say 30 mgs with each meal. She is being killed slowly by something that she is taking regularly which has to be diet related.