October 26th, 2009
One of my friends has a heart condition & she also has trouble with math & reading/spelling. I wondered how math & reading skills are effected by a heart condition.
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I’m sure that they are un-related. Your friends problems are caused from grey cells or the lack there of. She’ll just have to work harder to achieve her goals.
There are many genetic syndromes which can cause heart conditions and learning difficulties. It is possible this is the case for your friend. Just try to help your friend out and not worry about what the cause is.
It’s very possible for learning skills to be affected by Cardiac problems, especially if she is Cyanotic. (has a bluish tinge to her skin, especially in the fingertips.)
Usually blood comes into the heart, is pumped to the lungs, where it picks up the oxygen needed to make the body function; it is then pumped back to the heart, where it is again pumped to the body. If a person is Cyanotic, then there is not enough oxygen in their bloodstream. The heart-lungs-heart-body path has been misdirected somehow and blood with a low level of oxygen is being routed to the body. With a lower level of oxygenated blood powering the brain, learning *could* be more difficult.
That is the theory. No one is entirely sure how accurate it is… I have heart problems, and I can’t spell worth anything. Yet a friend of mine who also has a heart defect just won a math scholarship!
If she has a serious heart condition, she probably has been in and out of the hospital many times and when she is in the hospital, she is missing school. By missing lots of school, she has not learned as much as other kids who are there every day. And, sometimes, she could be so sick that she is unable to do any homework so she falls behind. Missing lots of school over the years puts you behind in all your skills.
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