Without feeling, your heart beats every time. But there are times when you feel your heart pounding. Be careful, this generally normal situation can sometimes also be a symptom of a serious illness.
Heart palpitations or palpitations are sensations when your heart feels beating fast. Indeed, in certain conditions, palpitations can be a sign of heart disease. But in general palpitations are not dangerous and only occur occasionally for a reason.
Trigger of Heart Beat
Heart palpitations can be caused by many things, ranging from simple causes and often unconscious to dangerous causes. Here are things that can cause heart palpitations.
Lifestyle
When you are feeling anxious, very happy, intensive exercise, or in a hurry situation, adrenaline will be released from the body and make the heart beat. Favorite eating spicy and spicy foods, smoking, consuming liquor or caffeinated drinks can also cause heart palpitations.
Health condition
The following body conditions can trigger heart palpitations:
Anemia
Overactive thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism)
Dehydration
Low blood sugar levels
Low blood pressure (orthostatic hypotension)
Fever
Disorders of the heart, such as heart rhythm disorders or arrhythmias, and heart valve abnormalities
Electrolyte disorders
Panic attack
Panic attacks make you feel a pounding heart accompanied by extraordinary anxiety, stress, fear, nausea, and trembling. Sometimes also accompanied by cold sweat.
Hormonal changes in women
Changes in hormone levels during pregnancy, menstruation, and menopause can also cause heart palpitations. This condition is generally harmless and is only temporary.
Consumption of medicines
Sometimes taking certain drugs, such as medications for high blood pressure and some types of antibiotics, can cause heart palpitations. Medications that can cause heart palpitations include bronchodilator drugs for asthma, antihistamines, drugs to treat thyroid disorders, and cough medicines containing stimulant pseudoephedrine.
Heart palpitations that are not caused by heart disease have a small risk of causing complications. But if this condition is caused by a disruption in the heart organs, the heart palpitations can cause complications such as sudden fainting, stroke, heart failure, even cardiac arrest.
Relieves heart palpitations
In general, palpitations do not require special handling if they only occur occasionally and are temporary without other complaints. But you need to be careful if this condition often occurs without a clear trigger or if you have a history of heart disease. Immediately consult a doctor if the heart beats accompanied by dizziness, chest pain, severe shortness of breath, or fainting.
If the heart beats due to a particular disease, the doctor will provide medication to treat the underlying disease. However, there are no special medicines to treat heart palpitations that are not caused by disease. All you can do is avoid things that trigger the condition.
Here are a few simple ways you can reduce heart palpitations:
Avoiding trigger factors, such as nicotine in cigarettes, caffeinated drinks, energy drinks, or drugs that can trigger symptoms. Discuss with your doctor if the medication you are taking causes complaints of heart palpitations.
Relieves anxiety and stress with relaxation methods such as yoga, meditation, breathing, or aromatherapy.
Avoid consumption of drugs, such as cocaine, which is at risk of triggering a palpitations.
A way to survive in the long run to avoid heart palpitations is to adopt a healthy lifestyle and avoid excessive stress as much as possible.
Check with your doctor if the frequency of heart palpitations is already outside the normal range, there is no obvious cause, or if you have risk factors for heart disease, such as obesity or smoking habits.
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