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What Causes Faster Heart Beat?
Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here...my son's heart has been beating really fast "but only a few times" at one point it really scarred me but when we took him to get his blood presure taken it was 120/80. It didn't last long only for about 3 minutes that his heart was beating extremly fast just out of the blue. what could it be?
Wed, 4 Jan 2017
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I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Increased heart rate can be because of a lot of reasons. It can be simple increase of heart rate because of any stressor or after exercise. If it occurs in resting state, it can be also because of abnormal conduction system of heart called as supraventricular arrhythmia. So you need certain tests to rule out same.
1) ECG at the time of palpitation. If duration of palpitation is small than we put a 24 hr ECG monitoring called as holter monitoring.
2) Thyroid function test
3) 2D Echo
After these test get yourself evaluated from your doctor.
Regards,
Dr. Sameer Maheshwari
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
Increased heart rate can be because of a lot of reasons. It can be simple increase of heart rate because of any stressor or after exercise. If it occurs in resting state, it can be also because of abnormal conduction system of heart called as supraventricular arrhythmia. So you need certain tests to rule out same.
1) ECG at the time of palpitation. If duration of palpitation is small than we put a 24 hr ECG monitoring called as holter monitoring.
2) Thyroid function test
3) 2D Echo
After these test get yourself evaluated from your doctor.
Regards,
Dr. Sameer Maheshwari
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