Heart Arrhythmia...SVT...Olive Leaf Extract UPDATED

Just my story...About 2 years ago, my daughter began to have a heart arrhythmia.  With an "Event Monitor" we clocked her heart rate at 278 bpm and she was diagnosed with SVT or Supraventricular Tachycardia.  This arrhythmia came out of nowhere and to be honest, it was a bit frightening.  We proceeded to get two opinions from well-known children cardiologists.  They both recommended a procedure called Catheter Ablation to correct these sudden changes in heart rate.

We took this concern very seriously and decided to put her immediately on a beta blocker.  The beta blocker usually can help with lessening the occurrence of the arrhythmia and it did for my daughter.  The problem with the beta blocker is that it often makes the patient extremely tired, and my daughter could hardly function at school on it.

While on the beta blocker, I started to read about what might be causing these arrhythmias.  I know that often doctors will first recommend salt to see if this may help.  However, with 278 bpm they did not believe salt would remedy her condition.  I also wondered if she could be lacking something?  She was not eating or drinking properly and lacked good choices.  I also knew that she could have a predisposition to heart issues because it runs in the family.  So we decided that while she was on the beta blocker we would start to work on her nutrition.

We immediately emphasized that she needs to drink more water, especially when playing sports.  We also knew that magnesium was essential for heart health.  So we put her on a calcium complex with magnesium, Vitamin C and D, Boron, Glutamic Acid and L-Lysine. 

Lastly, we gave her Olive Leaf Extract.

This is what the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center site had to say about Olive Leaf Exract:

Derived from fresh or dried leaves of olive plant. Both the leaves and the extract have been used to treat infections, inflammation, diabetes, and hypertension. A major component of olive leaf, oleuropein, has antioxidant properties (1). Because of its hypoglycemic effects, the leaf extract can induce insulin release and improve peripheral uptake of glucose (2). Further, the leaf extracts demonstrated antimicrobial properties (3), anti-HIV (4), and anticancer (13) (14) (15) (18) (19) properties. Animal studies showed antiarrhythmic, spasmolytic, diuretic (5), antihypertensive (6), analgesic (20) (21), and cholesterol lowering (7) effects.

Since putting her on these daily supplements, she was able to get off the beta blocker and in five months had only one occurrence that lasted two minutes long.  This was quite a difference.

 

UPDATE: The final update has been moved to our new site, please read the end of the story here.

On another interesting note...I remember that before these occurrences happened, she had a bad virus with a rash that could not be explained.  I have since learned that viruses can cause heart arrhythmias.

See:  Mayo Clinic article