2007年12月27日星期四

Arrhythmia a long way to go before having a pacemaker

Can you feel it?

Your heart beats on average 72 times every minute if you are a standard healthy adult. Do you often feel those beats, or become aware of them during the day. Most people who are not practicing meditation will be totally oblivious to the rhythm or arrhythmia of their heart. However, when your heart beat becomes arrhythmical, you might experience anxiety, light-headedness, dizziness, fainting, unusual awareness of the heartbeat, and sensations of fluttering or pounding in the chest. It is at this point that you need to think ahead and treat your arrhythmia problem with some arrhythmia vitamins and nutritional supplements.

Another cup of coffee?

Your case of arrhymia symptoms could be as simple as due to an overindulgence on coffee. Excessive caffeine consumption has been associated with arrhythmia in some studies. Although most people do not experience arrhythmia as a result of caffeine consumption, some healthy people appear to be susceptible to as little as one cup of coffee. Allergic reactions to foods and environmental chemicals have been reported to trigger arrhythmias. If you haven't yet been checked out for possible allergies, then book an appointment with your naturopath today!

Alongside consultation, try vitamins to calm your heart beat down. Magnesium, fish oil and cod liver oil are among the recommended nutritional supplements for arrhythmia. However, arrhythmia is often associated with other medical problems. You will still need to consult about the best vitamins and nutritional supplements to take for your arrhythmia.

How to avoid the pacemaker

If your palpitations aren't accompanied by dizziness or other symptoms and if you don't have a valve disorder or other structural problem with your heart, that usually means palpitations are benign. If you think your case of arrhythmia symptoms needs stronger arrhythmia treatment, you had better book a appointment with a cardiac specialist. In the most advanced cases, surgery might be needed. When a normal rhythm cannot be established by general medical intervention, a pacemaker may be implanted surgically. (A newer procedure called radiofrequency ablation may be used to destroy small areas of the heart responsible for the arrhythmia.) Avoid the pacemaker by taking preventative action, keeping fit and eating a healthy diet.