The heart is a muscle, one of the strongest muscles in the body, the heart is located in the middle of the chest, and the main function and the only one is to pump blood all over the body, and thus provide the cells with the necessary oxygen, and the size of the heart the size of the fist, the heart consists of four chambers: Atrial and ventricular, and also contains four valves to make the blood walk in one direction and according to gravity, and prevent return to the top, and the only artery that feeds the heart muscle is the coronary artery, the heart is exposed to several diseases due to various causes and multiple, such as: blockage of the coronary arteries, In one of the valves, the irregular in the Dat heart and fast as possible to cause palpitations of the heart muscle or slow palpitations in the muscle, both of which is abnormal and needs to return the pulse of the natural heart care.
Heart palpitations : So that the heart rate of the heart rate exceeds the normal rate, which is from (60 – 100) beats per minute, and comes this situation suddenly, accompanied by rapid heartbeat and irregular, rapid breathing, and extreme sweat, nausea.
Causes of heart palpitations
- Stimulants and panic attacks: Having a fear or anxiety when a person, leads to a high adrenaline has.
- Lifestyle: Depending on the nature of a person’s life, whether he is a smoker, or eating some fatty foods, excessive alcohol and caffeine, or taking stimulant drugs
- Medications: such as thyroid medications, or asthma medications, increase heart rate.
- Pregnancy and menopause: Depending on the hormonal changes experienced by the woman, in this case the rate of the heartbeat is more than normal.
some diseases
- Hyperthyroidism.
- Low blood sugar.
- Anemia.
- Reduction of Blood pressure .
- High temperature rise.
- Heart problems.
Treatment of heart palpitations
- Some heart palpitations do not need treatment, are temporary and go away.
- Reduce caffeine intake.
- Some cases of rapid heart beat need to be implanted defibrillator, and is surgically implanted.
- Drugs that reduce the rate of rapid heartbeat are: (Antiarrhythmics).