14/06/03 09:43:07.35 imU7IKof0.net
ベジタリアンを3年続けたために心房細動を発症した例↓
鉄サプリを摂取し、牛肉を食べるようになってからは発作は皆無。
Can too little iron in the blood (Anemia) cause Atrial Fibrillation? What can I do about it?
Sally Mertens offers this response: “Based on my experience dealing with chronic A Fib,
I would stress the importance of having ferritin level checked.
Once a doctor (my GYN [Gynecologist] not my Cardiologist!) figured out that my chronic A-Fib might be related to my low ferritin level (at 9),
after only 6 weeks of taking Repliva (82 mg/day iron), my ferritin was up to 29 and my A Fib had stopped.
(Another over-the-counter iron supplement is Floradix.) I haven’t had one A Fib attack since I started the Repliva.
I concurrently stopped donating blood (which I was doing as frequently as possible)
and began eating beef - at least 8 ounces per week - (after 3 years as a vegetarian).
My GYN would like to see my ferritin level at about 50 and told me it would take about 6 months for me to get my blood “stores” back to normal.
I feel extremely lucky and grateful that when I moved to a new town,
I got referred to a GYN who was well aware of the link between anemia in pregnancy and heart conditions.
(As a footnote, every time I donated blood, I passed the Red Cross hemoglobin test. My GYN understood how that was possible,
but I didn’t understand the explanation well enough to share it with you here.)
I’m well past child-bearing age and thus, as a precaution, my GYN also sent me for a colonoscopy to rule out internal bleeding as a factor in my low ferritin.”
Thanks Sally for your insights.
Mike writes that taking a product like Geritol boosts his red blood cells and improves his heart valve problems and his A-Fib.
URLﾘﾝｸ(a-fib.com)