My 12 year old daughter was recently diagnosed with AVNRT. The Pediatric Cardiologist was very reassuring in telling us this condition is not life threatening.But even though he told us that, she (and I) still get very afraid when she has an "episode". We've noticed that her episodes usually happen while she's riding her
horseHorse chestnut. They last no longer than 5 minutes (thank goodness) and seem to go away when she does the bearing down maneuver. She's had about 5 of them within the last 3 months, and 4 were while she was riding. I hope and pray that she doesn't have to stop riding because that is her passion. Here are my questions:
1.) her doctor said she was born with this condition so why did the symptoms just start showing up within the last year?
2.) can she have more than one "episode" a day? (
rapidRapid shallow breathing beats, event monitor caught one at 250 bpm)(that's the only one she had while she had the monitor. 3.) does stress REALLY aggrevate or bring the episodes on? 5.) if the bearing down maneuver or throwing cold water in her
faceFace pain etc, doesn't work, does the racing heart go back to
normalNormal saline flush by itself? 6.) is it possible for this condition to go away by itself or is it something she will always have? I know I'm asking tons of questions (and believe me, if I could think of more, I'd ask them here) but we just want to get all of the information we can about this as it's so new and scary. Any words of advice and wisdom would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Did the doctor say your daughter have wpw or an accessory pathway? I might confuse with AVNRT and SVT. Is she on any medication? Wait for the CCF doctor comment. I hope they'll give you an answer shortly.