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Doctors monitor Nastya's heart 24 hours a day

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Surgeons implanted Nastia Sytnik with a cardiac monitoring device that monitors a child's heart online. Now Nastya's mother Yulia will be able to sleep peacefully at night without fear that her daughter's heart will suddenly stop.

This already happened in 2017 - the girl fell into a coma for a month, and when she woke up, she could not breathe, speak, sit, swallow, or focus her eyes on her own. Together with her mother, Nastya has come a long way. Now she speaks and walks again, attends kindergarten and is preparing to go to school with her peers in two years. But the doctors could not find the cause of the coma and arrhythmia.

Now the answer to this vital question will be given by the small machine "Reveal", for which you helped raise money. It will help doctors identify the disease and prevent the girl's heart from stopping again.

"A huge thank you to everyone who helped raise money for the cardiac monitoring and surgery. It was an emergency," says Yulia. - Now our daughter is under constant control of Moscow cardiologists. If something goes wrong, they put "SOS" on the monitor and contact us. We can send the alarm signal by remote control. Fortunately, it hasn't gotten any worse.

With your help, the Sytnik family began a quiet life. Nastya dreams of a smart watch to monitor her heart rate. And Julia wishes her daughter would do well. That the children's heart would beat fast and only for joy. And she thanks everyone who helped her little girl!

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Without our help, Nastya's heart will stop for the second time

In 2017, Nastia Sytnik's heart stopped, and the girl fell into a coma for a month. And when she woke up, she could not breathe, speak, sit, swallow, or focus her eyes on her own. She didn't even recognize her mother.

Before the cardiac arrest, the cause of which could not be determined, she was running, playing, reading poetry at a matinee in kindergarten, and after - she lay motionless with a probe or was beating in convulsions. Only for 3-4 hours a day she fell asleep and let her mother Julia sleep. The doctors said, that the brain was very badly damaged, they asked her not to wait for miracles - they would not even take her to rehabilitation with a heart disease.

Julia did not listen. She kneaded her daughter's throat with her hands, sang her favorite songs for hours, persuaded the rehab specialists, studied rehabilitation methods. Within a few months she sent the attending physician a video of Nastia drinking from a straw. And when at the next appointment the girl stood on her feet, there was no doubt - Nastia is very good, she will succeed. Now the girl speaks and walks again, she goes to the remedial kindergarten for kids with visual impairments (after coma Nastya cannot see well) and in two years she is ready to go to school with her peers.

But Julia still does not sleep well at night: the disease that almost caused her daughter's death has not been diagnosed, and the arrhythmia does not stop even with the medications. Nastia's heart may stop again. "At night I shudder, listening to my daughter's breathing, measuring her pulse. Recently Nastya has been taken away twice by ambulance with a heartbeat of 160 beats per minute", - says Julia.

To help Nastya the cause of her arrhythmia has to be determined. To do that, doctors want to implant a long term monitoring device called Reveal into her body. This will help to detect the disease and prevent repeated cardiac arrests. Then Nastia will be able to rehabilitate and live her life in peace.

We can do everything we can to make sure the nightmare this family has gone through does not happen again. Let's help!