Updated Jan 2024

As the number of people with dysautonomia and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) is increasing due to COVID, are you prepared to support them? It’s over 1% of the population and 30-80% of people with long COVID. That’s a tremendous amount of people who need support! Diet and lifestyle treatments are the first line of treatment and RDNs are often the practitioners seeing clients with POTS and we’re in a great position to help.

Often clients report getting their information from chat groups because health professionals can’t answer their questions. We need to do better!

Here are handouts with everything you need to help your clients get oriented to their new diagnosis, the diet and lifestyle changes and and answer the typical questions.

This contains details on types of foods, meal size and spacing, exercise suggestions for POTS with specific guidance based on whether the client has long COVID POTS, Ehlers-Danlos, etc., amount of salt with practical suggestions, brands of electrolytes including ones to avoid, brands of compression garments and cooling tools and more.

Some of this research is out in 2023, so you are getting the latest info!

  • POTS and Diet
  • POTS Basics and Exercise (2 page)
  • Fluids for POTS
  • Electrolytes
  • Salt for POTS
  • POTS Tips and Tricks
  • POTS Myths and Facts
  • Simple Hydration Tips–you may use them for a range of clients!
  • Background info for RDNs (not intended for patients)

9 handouts/10 pages, NON BRANDED, all fully customizable with your practice information

Added bonus— an extra page of references and resources for RDNs to learn more

Cheryl Harris, MPH, RD developed POTS in 2000 and has decades of experience managing symptoms and working with clients with POTS. Especially since COVID, she has actively worked to help people with POTS get the care they deserve, and to help health professionals do better. She taught on POTS for Today’s dietitian and also authored a paper in JAND on POTS  in 2022 to help advance awareness, which can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212267222003422

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