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I just found out that my 8 year old son zhavon has some sort of heart problems. The doctor would not tell us or did not know to what extend it might be. He did put him on Atenelol 20meg and we are going to a heart Doctor next week.
My question is about this med is it ok for a 8 year old? Is it normal for a Doctor to put him on this before he sees the heart doctor even though I believe the Heart doc told him to put my son on it. All the info I pull up on it scares the everything out of me... I have read about heart atacks,bypasses and other problem that the Atenelol would be used but none of them are good....
Thx for any help I just need to know where to start or something I can't think overwhelmed right now....
pls help if U can
Javan
In Reply to: MY 8 year old son. posted by Javan on February 20, 2003 at 16:16:09:
my mom takes atenolol 25mg a day for high blood pressure
In Reply to: MY 8 year old son. posted by Javan on February 20, 2003 at 16:16:09:
Javan.
What were his symptoms?
If he had no symptoms, if he were MY child, I would not give him the meds until the cardiologist makes a diagnosis.
Let us know what you learn.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: MY 8 year old son. posted by Walt Stoll on February 21, 2003 at 13:36:28:
Well since my last post I talked to his Doctor and he said that the cardiologist who read the test ( he had to wear something that had probs all over his chest for 24 hours) and Zhavon's (my son) heart rate jumped up to over 200 3 times during that 24 hour period 2 of which happened when he was asleep. I am not sure I have ever had my heart rate up that high even when I was running track in middle school.
I'm not sure if I should post this in my eariler post or start a new one if anyone reads this please tell me what to do...
In Reply to: MY 8 year old son. posted by Javan on February 22, 2003 at 08:20:54:
Thanks, Javan.
The thing he wore is called a Holter Monitor. This is a cardiac dysrrhythmia; examples of which have many different causes.
If no anatomical cause can be found (a congenital condition at this age) the most common cause is low intracellular magnesium. Since this was only determined within the past about 20 years, your cardiologist may not even know about this cause.
See the cardiac dysrrhythmias archives and the magnesium archives.
Magnesium deficiancy is now the most common single mineral deficiency in the country since it is removed from all refined foods and more than 85% of foods in the USA are now refined. If your son's heart is genetically susceptible to magnesium deficiency this could be the entire cause.
Let us know what you learn.
Walt
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