POTS: Diagnosis and Treatment

Watch Dr. Irina Rozenfeld talk about the importance of therapeutic relationships in personalized medicine.    • Therapeutic Relationships: How Personalize...   In this week’s episode, host Haylie Pomroy is joined by Irina Rozenfeld, a board-certified nurse practitioner, to talk about Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), its effects on the body and working with clinicians to find the right treatment. The heart rate of individuals with POTS, when moving upright, elevates up to 30-40 beats per minute, depending on age. Patients can also experience tachycardia (Racing heart), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), orthostatic intolerance, and hypotension. A healthy body should be able to adapt to posture changes. But POTS causes its patients’ heart rate to go up and blood pressure to drop. It also goes with symptoms of other chronic diseases, such as diabetes and anemia Tune in as we bring you hope and help in dealing with POTS. We at the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine are eager to help you transform body dysregulation into wellness. Key Points: 00:00 Introduction 05:01 What is POTS? 08:21 The symptoms of POTS 10:56 POTS isn’t for telemedicine or telehealth 12:22 The link between POTS and ME/CFS 14:23 How POTS can stem from other illnesses 17:34 Blood pooling as a sign of POTS 21:15 Meal fatigue caused by body dysregulation 24:56 Using non-pharmacological methods 27:12 What to express to your practitioner 31:08 Teenagers and athletes can have POTS 34:14 Brain fog after large meals 36:25 The importance of self-reporting 37:49 The importance of proper hydration 42:06 Recovery with a knowledgeable physical therapist 46:01 POTS as a post-viral infection Irina Rozenfeld is a Doctor of Nursing at the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine. She is also an Assistant Professor at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, at Nova Southeastern University. Irina worked for over 20 years as a physician assistant in Russia before joining INIM where she focused on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic infections, vector-borne illnesses, metabolic syndrome, chronic pain, environmental issues, detoxification, and auto-immune diseases. LinkedIn:   / irina-rozenfeld-413a4028   Facebook:   / irina.rozenfeld.1   —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for tuning in to the Hope and Help For Fatigue and Chronic Illness Podcast. Sign up today for our newsletter. 👉 https://nova.us4.list-manage.com/subs... Enjoy our show? Please leave us a 5-star review on the following platforms so we can bring hope and help to others. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/154isuc... This podcast is brought to you by the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine. Learn more about us here. Website: https://www.nova.edu/nim/ Facebook:   / instituteforneuroimmunemedicine   Instagram:   / nsu_inim   Twitter:   / nsu_inim   TikTok:   / nsu_inim   Your support goes a long way toward the advancement of clinical research. Donate here. 👉 https://www.nova.edu/nim/donations.html #POTS #chronicillness #treatment #diagnosis