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Types, symptoms and causes of tachycardia

What is tachycardia?

Tachycardia is a rapid heartbeat. A normal person with a normal temperature while you rest heart rate is about 80, and when a person is in the standing position, there are about 100 beats. If the impacts exceed these figures, then it is tachycardia.


The types of tachycardia

Tachycardia is divided into two forms: physiologic and pathologic. In the first case, the palpitation of the heart is due to physical exertion, excitement, etc. In pathological tachycardia, the increased heart beats caused by disease, such as febrile syndromes, malfunction of the endocrine system, nervous and mental disorders, poisoning the body with alcohol. Tachycardia arises due to the decrease for a long time, motor function, and malfunction of the heart, which may develop heart failure.

You need to determine what kind of tachycardia the patient suffers from chronic or paroxysmal. In the latter case, the doctor must find out the patient suffers from attacks of paroxysmal sinus tachycardia. When patients attack, sinus tachycardia, it can not accurately determine the beginning and end of the attack. The exact diagnosis can only be made with the help of electrocardiography, which should be carried out directly during the attack. Many people with tachycardia do not notice it, and some may complain of fast palpitations. Tachycardia can be identified by listening to the heart and on pulse. Treatment of sinus tachycardia is mainly aimed at the removal of factors that caused it.

Symptoms of tachycardia

Symptoms tachycardia is frequent palpitations, feeling of weakness, feeling dizzy, feeling short of breath, feeling of an approaching loss of consciousness.


Cause tachycardia

Tachycardia can be considered a symptom and not a disease, as it appears due to various diseases. Cause tachycardia can become disorders of the endocrine system, disorders of the autonomic nervous system, hemodynamic instability and various forms of arrhythmia.

Tachycardia may appear as quite a normal reaction tolarge physical and emotional loads, and when the temperature of the body, due to the adoption of alcoholic beverages, from Smoking. More frequent palpitations maybe from low blood pressure from low level of hemoglobin in the blood, i.e. anemia, infectious diseases, especially meningitis, from malignant tumors, excessive functionality of the thyroid gland or from taking certain medicines.