Sorry to bore many people with my personal comments due
to my personal loss with heart problems in my family.
i can get carried away ed.
wes

so sad the loss of Nickey Payne,i young lassie playing a game at school.so many people are quick to think heart attack,but that is not necessary the cause.at this moment in time i do not feel it appropriate for people to just surmise the sad outcome,my thoughts are with the family,and all the young schoolfriends left behind,let the medical department do their job on this sad tragic case.

so sad for this to happen to someone so young, my best to her friends and family in dealing with their grief.

Perhaps if it would be too expensive to screen everyone for heart defects, we should at least screen people with these problems in their family, as it seems to be a genetic thing.

It seems that almost everybody on here is assuming that a heart condition killed this poor girl. Many are then jumping on the 'unfit/unhealthy kids' bandwagon. I would like to note that there are many conditions that could have caused this girl's death (epilespy, diabetes, S.A.D, Bleed on the brain etc) yet many all jump to the same conclusion saying we need to test all children for heart conditions. It could be any number of things that caused this death and we should wait for the coroner to release the cause of death before getting upon our high horses regarding childhood obesity. Condolences to her family.

This is so sad. I have a heart arrythmia, but mine is benign, they're very scary if they're symptomatic to live with, but they're also not easy to diagnose, so I should imagine the more serious ones aren't either it took me almost a year to get a diagnosis, not because the doctors didn't try, my GP was brilliant,even had me admitted to hospital for tests, but every time I had a monitor on I didn't get the bad palpitations. It took me ringing the ambulance twice in one day to get mine on record, and I felt mine, these poor kids probably had no warning with theirs. Luckily for me, mine are nasty but not dangerous. Their's weren't :-(.

Part of our problem with this is we're not so used to death, we expect every problem to be solved, but we only have to look back in time a relatively short period to see how things used to be, before they days of healthcare available to us all, antibiotics etc etc when children died in childhood a lot more often. Two of my uncles died, one from scarlet fever before he was one, and one from TB in his late teens just before antibiotics were available.

i.ve said this before when it.s happened . every week several teens/20s pass because of a unknown heart defect . i think all kids at least . should be tested yearly at least . to hopefully detect any problem(s) i know this would be time consuming & also probably expensive . but you can.t put a price on life ! alot seem to think this is a new thing . it is.nt . it.s just that when it happens now . it makes news . but it.s been going on for generations ! another young life snatched away too early . r.i.p nicky X

his is so sad, all you hear of children dying due to school sports. it has got to stop!!!

My deepest sympathy to the family and friends of this child. So sad!

Very Sad.I tend to agree with Weskirk 1. We have a definate health problem with our young generation today.Parents should start to rethink .

heartbreaking for those poor parents. cant imagine anything worse.

Please govt allow funds to introduce routine ECG monitor test of all children.

Very sad. Condolences. x

Is this due to a lower standard of general fitness
in our young generation now, too much pc games ect.
plus fatty, sugary,salty, foods, leading to poor health in general.
Then when having to push their body the heart cannot cope.
Neverless my heart goes out to her family and friends,
may she RIP.
wes