My daughter was diagnosed with vasovagal syncope also in 2012. I was worried to death because she had one fainting spell the previous year in August and then two more times in 2012, in June. We took her to a cardiologist and they said that it was vasovagal syncope. Well all has been well until this evening when she was taking a very hot shower she felt a faint spell coming on and she quickly got out of the shower and got dressed, and came into the living room. I instantly knew something was wrong and she sat down on the nearest coffee table and I laid her on the sofa. I made her a sandwich and gave her some juice and she was feeling better within a few minutes. She is 13, turning 14 in a few months and every time these episodes happen I get worried, even though I have been told she is fine. The second time last year that she had a fainting spell, the er doctors gave her a 24 hour Holter monitor and everything came back fine. They also monitored her at the cardiologist and he found nothing either. It scares me to death, but all the doctors are telling me that she is fine and that all I need to do is make sure she increases her salt intake. Since that diagnoses, she has not had another episode until tonight and my husband is convinced that it was because she had the shower too hot, which she admitted to doing and she didn't have it properly ventilated either. So I am hoping that the hot shower just triggered her vasovagal syncope and that it is resolved by her taking a little cooler of a shower.
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My daughter was diagnosed with vasovagal syncope also in 2012. I was worried to death because she had one fainting spell the previous year in August and then two more times in 2012, in June. We took her to a cardiologist and they said that it was vasovagal syncope. Well all has been well until this evening when she was taking a very hot shower she felt a faint spell coming on and she quickly got out of the shower and got dressed, and came into the living room. I instantly knew something was wrong and she sat down on the nearest coffee table and I laid her on the sofa. I made her a sandwich and gave her some juice and she was feeling better within a few minutes. She is 13, turning 14 in a few months and every time these episodes happen I get worried, even though I have been told she is fine. The second time last year that she had a fainting spell, the er doctors gave her a 24 hour Holter monitor and everything came back fine. They also monitored her at the cardiologist and he found nothing either. It scares me to death, but all the doctors are telling me that she is fine and that all I need to do is make sure she increases her salt intake. Since that diagnoses, she has not had another episode until tonight and my husband is convinced that it was because she had the shower too hot, which she admitted to doing and she didn't have it properly ventilated either. So I am hoping that the hot shower just triggered her vasovagal syncope and that it is resolved by her taking a little cooler of a shower.
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