Moderate tachycardia in an adult and a child

When a person is diagnosed with "moderate tachycardia", what it is and how to treat it should be understood first.

Diseases that are associated with the work of the heart are always very dangerous. If treatment is not started on time, then everything can end quite badly. A pathology such as tachycardia should be taken responsibly and not expected to go away on its own.

This disease indicates that a person has disorders in the nervous and endocrine systems.

Causes

This disease is a type of arrhythmia. When a person is diagnosed with tachycardia, it means that the heart contracts more than 90 times per minute. Such a pulse occurs in someone who has previously trained hard in the gym or received another physical or emotional stress. In this case, tachycardia will be physiological and will pass after a short period of time.

Children under the age of seven also often have a pulse that is more than 90 beats per minute. This is normal for a child this age. Until the child is one year old, his heartbeat can be 120-140 beats per minute. This condition does not require treatment.

At the same time, the number of heart beats per minute increases sharply. If the disease is started, then it can acquire a chronic form and remain a cardiac pathology.

Also, such tachycardia can serve as a reason to suspect another dangerous disease - both in an adult and in a child. If problems are associated with the endocrine system, then a person may increase the production of the hormone adrenaline, which also increases the heart rate.

What can provoke the disease:

• long-term presence of a person in a stressful state;
• quite serious physical activity;
• alcohol abuse;
• constant consumption of coffee;
• the presence in the body of any infection;
• increase in body temperature;
• oxygen starvation;
• pregnancy.

It must be remembered that tachycardia can be the beginning of such heart diseases:

• hypertension;
• ischemia;
• heart disease;
• myocardial infarction.

Before you start intensively treated, you need to find out what was the impetus for the development of this disease.

Types of pathology

As a result of the fact that a rapid heartbeat can be caused by various reasons, the tachycardia of an adult and a child can be divided into the following types:

1. Constitutional, it usually occurs if a person has any congenital pathologies, as a result of which the generation of an excitation impulse in the sinus node is impaired. In this case, tachycardia will accompany a person throughout life.
2. Tachycardia may be neurogenic. It occurs as a normal consequence of emotional stress experienced. Even with memories of some bad situation, a similar state can manifest itself. Therefore, people suffering from this form of the disease need to take drugs that have a relaxing and calming effect. Hypnosis is often used to help a person.
3. When the thyroid gland produces an increased dose of thyroxine, an endocrine form of moderate tachycardia occurs. If the content of this hormone is increased, then the heartbeat becomes faster, and the process of blood circulation is also accelerated.
4. When many substances such as nicotine, alcohol, coffee, adrenaline, atropine, etc. enter the body, a toxic form of the disease occurs.
5. A person's heartbeat can become faster if they suffer from hypotension. In hypertensive patients, on the contrary, the pulse rate decreases.
6. At the initial stage of heart failure, a cardiogenic form of tachycardia may occur as a result of insufficient oxygen supply to the tissues.

 This condition can also be caused by:

• various heart defects;
• myocardial infarction;
• heart aneurysm;
• hypertensive crisis.

A rapid heartbeat can occur when an adult or child suddenly changes from a horizontal to a vertical position. This phenomenon is characteristic of the orthostatic form of tachycardia. It can be in people who, for certain reasons, have been lying down for a long time.

Symptoms of the disease

There are times when the symptoms of moderate tachycardia are mild. A person may not even notice that he has tachycardia.

You should pay attention if:

• there is an increase in heart rate;
• legs or arms become as if "cotton";
• general weakness or malaise appears;
• periodically dizzy;
• there is difficulty breathing or a person feels that he does not have enough oxygen.

When a person begins to observe the above symptoms, he should undergo a medical examination as soon as possible.

If such signs are found in a child, then the parents should immediately show it to the doctor.

Specialists will prescribe a diagnosis, which includes several ways to determine the presence of this disease. According to the results of the examination, the patient will be recommended a specific treatment. You should not self-medicate with such a serious illness, because you can only aggravate the situation.