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Baffled - perfectly well child, can’t get an ecg to work - any hcps with ideas?!

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lucretiab · 19/01/2023 05:01

This is more of a wondering, and chat thing, rather than wanting a diagnosis of a specific issue. Might even count as a woo question…

My son (teenager), has a couple of medical issues, but nothing that impacts his getting up in the morning, eating, sleeping etc etc. He is about to start a research trial for a new medicine, for his long term condition.

Before doing so, they wanted to do a million tests, obviously, including an ecg, so heart/blood vessels tracing to check all is well on that front.

They couldn’t get a trace. At all. They tried -

  • 3 different machines,
  • 2 completely different sets of stickers
  • 2 completely separate lots of leads
  • 2 different electricity points - even though the machines was clearly on, and “working”.

They had just done a morning of testing other kids, so they knew that all these machines work, and so do the leads. The leads were going to limbs, not just the chest, so not a specific issue in one point of the body.. and no one seemed concerned, just truly baffled.

DS thought it cool, and keeps telling everyone he’s “heartless”. Grin

We’re home again now, and they’re going to try again next visit. Weird, but still wondering hours later, what happened?!

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TooGood2BeFalse · 19/01/2023 05:40

Might have taken an episode of Chicago Med too seriously...but any chance his heart is in a different place?Like other side or lower down? Has he had one before?

RSmithPC · 19/01/2023 05:42

I read an article once that said that some shampoos and soaps with certain metals in them can cause problems with medical tests. The article named anti-dandruff shampoo in particular. I wonder if that's the problem?

Weenurse · 19/01/2023 05:44

My daughter has dextrocardia, her heart is on the right instead of the left.
Discovered when she was 18 and went to have her wisdom teeth removed. Similar story, multiple leads and machines until someone listened to her chest with a stethoscope and realised the heart sounds were more prominent on right rather than left. It might be something like that.

lborgia · 19/01/2023 07:20

Mm, he's def had a heart ultrasound before, so, having initially thought "ooh, yes", I'm afraid his heart is just where it needs to be!

They made sure to take off his smart watch after the first one, and his phone was with me. He just uses bar shampoo, so pretty sure about that. Will check he wasn't covered in sunscreen or similar (no sunshine here in Oz today, and usually I have to whine to get him to do anything like that!).

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