SINUS ARRYTHMIA AND UTI AGAIN!?!

Yesterday, I received my results from the APE (Annual Physical Exam) that we had just a week ago and to tell you frankly I wasn’t quite surprised with the results. I had UTI again, with the pus cell count just TMTC (too many to count!) I was even diagnosed to drink some medicines for a week before going back to the doctor again to have my urine rechecked if there’s any improvement. Meanwhile, I searched the internet for some home remedies for UTI and found quite a few I could use – including herbal ones like sambong and banaba which I could regularly drink as tea. There was also cranberry juice, yogurt and Vitamin C. There were also certain foods to avoid like coffee, tea, chocolate (oh no!), peanuts, softdrinks, spicy food, cheese, processed sugar and flour, and spinach (but why???) But most of all, I need to drink 8-10 glasses of water per day, something I really need to monitor because if not, I tend to just drink during meals. So in essence I drink only 3 glasses per day, the others are coffee or choco drinks which do not really count at all! Oh dear, I truly need to make a serious effort to drink water regularly so that I can beat this UTI once and for all.

What got me a bit worried though was my ECG reading that I had sinus arrhythmia - what does that mean? My heart has a cold??? So I immediately searched the internet and was a bit calmed when I learned that it is just a normal occurrence since the heart may experience a regular increase in heart rate due to breathing or any other normal activity. Sinus, by the way, refers to the natural pacemaker of the heart or the sinus node. The heart beats in a normal regular rhythm when we sleep or when motionless. Hence, the term sinus arrhythmia refers to the lack of a regular/normal sinus rhythm or an abnormal heart rhythm. Therefore, it is not something to be worried about though I would rather have my ECG repeated, after all it’s for free, just to make sure that my heart is in tip-top shape.