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Conditions treated: Cardiovascular, Palpitation
Treating Palpitation With Snake Gourd Leaves juice.
Snake Gourd is a tropical or subtropical vine, raised for its strikingly long fruit, used as a vegetable and for medicine. The narrow, soft-skinned fr...
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Conditions treated: Cardiovascular, Palpitation
Treating Palpitations with Motherwort extracts.
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Palpitations Guide
- Summary
- Definition
- Causes
- Considerations
- Other Names
- When to Contact a Medical Professional
- Home Care
- Prevention
- References
Definition
Palpitations are heartbeat sensations that feel like your heart is pounding or racing. You may simply have an unpleasant awareness of your own heartbeat, or may feel skipped or stopped beats. The heart's rhythm may be normal or abnormal. Palpitations can be felt in your chest, throat, or neck. See also: Arrhythmia
Causes
Heart palpitations can be caused by:
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Definition
Palpitations are heartbeat sensations that feel like your heart is pounding or racing. You may simply have an unpleasant awareness of your own heartbeat, or may feel skipped or stopped beats. The heart's rhythm may be normal or abnormal. Palpitations can be felt in your chest, throat, or neck. See also: Arrhythmia
Causes
Heart palpitations can be caused by:
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Considerations
Normally the heart beats between 60-100 times per minute. In people who exercise routinely or take medications that slow the heart, the rate may drop below 55 beats per minute. If your heart rate is very fast (over 100 beats per minute), this is called tachycardia. An unusually slow heart rate is called bradycardia. An occasional extra heart beat is known as extrasystole . Palpitations are often not serious. However, it depends on whether or not the sensations represent an abnormal heart rhythm ( arrhythmia ). You are more likely to have an abnormal heart rhythm if you have:
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Other Names
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call 911 if: Call your doctor right away if:
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Home Care
Reducing stress and anxiety can help lessen the frequency or intensity of your heart palpitations. Try breathing exercises or deep relaxation (a step-by-step process of tensing and then relaxing every muscle group in your body) when palpitations occur. Practicing yoga or tai chi on a regular basis can reduce the frequency of your palpitations. Keep a record of how often you have palpitations, when they happen, how long they last, your heart rate at the time of the palpitations, and what you are feeling at the time. This information may help your doctor figure out both their seriousness and their underlying cause. Once a serious cause has been ruled out by your doctor, try NOT to pay attention to heart palpitations, unless you notice a sudden increase or a change in them.
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Prevention
Try to reduce stress and risk factors for heart disease:
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References
Mayou R, Sprigings D, Birkhead J et al. Characteristics of patients presenting to a cardiac clinic with palpitation. QJM . 2003; 96(2):115-123.
Encyclopedia: Palpitation
A palpitation is an abnormal awareness of the beating of the heart, whether it is too slow, too fast, irregular, or at its normal frequency. The difference between an abnormal awareness and a normal awareness is that the latter is almost always caused by a concentration on the beating of one's heart and the former interrupts other thoughts. Palpitations may be brought on by overexertion, adrenaline, alcohol, caffeine, disease or...
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Palpitation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A palpitation (medical term: ectopic heart beat) is an abnormal awareness of the beating of the heart, whether it is too slow, too fast, irregular, ...
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Palpitations occur when a person can feel abnormalities in the normal beating of the ... These palpitations can be an isolated extra beat, or they can run ...
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MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Heart palpitations
Oct 20, 2008 ... Palpitations are heartbeat sensations that feel like your heart is pounding or racing. You may simply have an unpleasant awareness of your ...
Question and Answer
I have been very stressed lately, just had my period and have been bedridden for...
Palpitations in your setting could be (a) stress or anxiety related, such as with panic attacks, (b) related to anemia [from menstruation], (c) due to dehydration and/or an electrolyte imbalance...
Asked by goldie locks - 10 months ago
Heart palpitations are the irregular awareness of the heart beating. You dont have to...
If you can actually FEEL your heart beating in your chest you are having palpitations. Point Blank Period
Asked by st4lkr - 10 months ago
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I suffer from palpitations. What exactly causes palpitations? I'm taking paxil. Even when I'm feeling well, I can still suffer from palpitations.
Apr 23, 2005
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Question & Answer
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What are palpitations?
A palpitation is an awareness of the beating of the heart, whether it is too slow, too fast, irregular, or at its normal frequency. Palpitations may be brought on by overexertion, adrenaline, alcohol, disease (such...
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