Unfortunately, in recent years, not only elderly people have come to see a cardiologist, for whom changes in the functioning of the heart muscle are the norm, but also young ones. The main reason for going to the doctor is a complaint that the patient hears the sound of his own heart. Every time after an intense workout or a quick run, you feel how much the heart beats inside the chest. This is an adrenaline rush. The heart intensively distills the blood to enrich all organs tissues with oxygen.
Causes of palpitations
There are many reasons for the malfunctioning of the heart. They are divided into psychological or psychosomatic causes, cardiological and non-cardiological diseases.
Psychological reasons
The main psychosomatic reasons include:
- emotional stress;
- depressive state;
- panic attacks;
- stresses.
Indeed, in an anxiety state, a person’s heart starts to work faster, and therefore, symptoms such as sweating, tremors, shortness of breath appear, and, of course, the body gives a signal in the form of a palpable heartbeat.
If you feel your heart beating and all possible diseases are excluded, there is another way to solve the problem - eliminating stress and conflict. If the reason for the appearance of your heart rate is psychosomatics, then you should change your lifestyle. Refuse from hard work, change or expand the circle of communication, try to eliminate any stress.
Consider gaining new healthy habits, such as walking in the fresh air, playing sports, visiting spa organizations. If possible, get out to sea to breathe salty air. Take a course of massage, electrophoresis. Give up bad habits: smoking, drinking coffee or tea, energizing the nervous system of energy, and, of course, overeating. If diseases such as a panic attack or depression have become the cause of a rapid heartbeat, consult a psychiatrist. These ailments are treated medically.
Normal heart condition
Before analyzing the main medical reasons for which a person can feel his heartbeat, it is worth determining how many heart beats per minute should be on average. The heart is a biological motor for blood distillation. In order to saturate the cells of organs with oxygen, the heart works continuously throughout life. It has three conditions: relaxation, atrial contraction, and ventricular contraction. Normally, the heart rate is approximately 60-80 beats per minute.
Going beyond these indicators is a deviation. There are external reasons why an increase or decrease in the number of heart beats can occur. You can feel how the heart beats just by putting your ear to your chest, or using a phonendoscope. You need to measure your pulse at rest. Before this, it is necessary to clarify the patient's well-being, his diagnosis. The pulse depends on the time of day, temperature and humidity, mood and mental state of a person, age.
As already mentioned, with an excited emotional state, the number of heart beats per minute in a person increases. With an increase in temperature, an increase in heart rate is also observed, and with a decrease in temperature it slows down. In children, as a rule, the pulse is much more often than in adults. It can be up to 120 beats per minute, but with age it decreases and at 15 years old, during adolescent puberty, comes back to normal - 60 beats.
Cardiological heart disease
Should a person feel their heartbeat? Speaking about medical reasons, three main diagnoses can be distinguished. The most common are arrhythmia, tachycardia and bradycardia. Analyzing each type of deviation, we will highlight the main points:
- symptoms
- causes;
- physiological manifestations;
- effects;
- treatment.
Atrial fibrillation
The most common deviation from the norm in the field of cardiology is atrial fibrillation. It is determined by the following symptoms: the heart then freezes, then abruptly begins to beat, as if they had just run a cross. A person hears the sound of a heartbeat. The main symptoms also include difficulty breathing, dizziness, chest pain. Often the disease is asymptomatic, which is a more dangerous condition for a person, because an untrained diagnosis can cost health or even life on time.
If we talk about the physiological characteristics of this disease, then instead of a full atrial contraction, flicker occurs, that is, an incomplete contraction, while the ventricles of the heart are reduced to 160 beats per minute. This is very dangerous for the heart, as it is experiencing incredible overload. The first symptoms can occur during stress. The consequences of the disease are manifested in the form of strokes, heart attacks and various heart diseases. If the sound of the heartbeat is palpable even at rest, this is a serious signal of the body.
The main causes of arrhythmias are hereditary or congenital heart disease, valve disease. Another cause is coronary heart disease. Also, the malfunctioning of the organs responsible for hormones affects the heart muscle.
Like any disease, arrhythmia is better prevented than treated. A person’s lifestyle affects heart health. Go in for sports, get rid of bad habits that have a harmful effect on the heart, worry less and you will never know what it means to feel a heartbeat in a calm state.
Atrial fibrillation treatment
Before proceeding with treatment, it is necessary to determine the source of the violation, namely, the interruption in the operation of which valve or ventricle is associated with it. It is necessary to fully examine the entire cardiovascular system. The course of treatment is life-long monitoring by a cardiologist, drug treatment, and in some cases, surgical procedures. Most often, arrhythmia is attributed to chronic pathologies, and surgical intervention is rarely required. It is necessary for people with congenital heart disease and is performed in children under 14 years of age when drug treatment is ineffective.
Tachycardia is the main cause of chest knocking.
The second most common heart disease is tachycardia. Normally, at rest in an adult, the number of beats per minute should be up to 80 times. But if you find that the number of strokes is 100, then rather make an appointment with a cardiologist. Due to the intense work, the heart beats more strongly and, as a result, is more noticeable for a person.
If the number of strokes exceeds this norm, this is one of the signs of tachycardia. Naturally, the disease negatively affects the work of the heart - the ventricles do not have time to fill up with blood, therefore, there is a deterioration in the blood supply to organs and tissues, and as a result there is a lack of oxygen.
As a rule, the cause of tachycardia and a constant feeling of heartbeat are excessive physical exertion, sunstroke, diseases of the body, both infectious and viral. The treatment is very simple if you consult a doctor on time. With the provision of the necessary drug treatment, heart problems should not occur. After a certain period, in the absence of treatment, tachycardia becomes chronic, which leads to a worsening of the condition, a person feels more like a heart beating, a heart defect and myocardial inflammation appear.
Summing up, we determine that tachycardia is the main cause of a strong heartbeat, as a result of which a person can hear his own strokes. From this we conclude that normally a person should not hear his own heartbeat.
Bradycardia as a cause of irregular heartbeat
The inverse of the properties of tachycardia is a disease of bradycardia. The main symptomatology of this heart disease is a deviation of the number of beats per minute to a smaller side from the norm. So, with bradycardia, the average number of strokes with which the heart beats is 50 per minute. As a result, weakness, cold sweat, fainting occur. The causes are previous illnesses such as heart attack, stroke, hereditary diseases and inflammation of the heart tissue.
Other reasons
Non-cardiological reasons for the appearance of a rapid heartbeat in the chest also include:
- vegetovascular dystonia;
- anemia
- neurosis;
- menopause;
- elevated temperature.
These diseases are accompanied by the following symptoms: dizziness, shortness of breath, suffocation, fatigue, sweating, chest pain. The treatment of these diseases is carried out by a specialist.
How to get rid of a feeling of heartbeat
In addition to special cases, there is a general treatment. First of all, contact your local clinic with a general practitioner who will direct you to a general blood and urine test. After conducting the examination data, he can identify pathology in other organ systems, after which he will refer you to a cardiologist. He will conduct the following tests:
- Ultrasound of the heart;
- ECG;
- ECG with load.
If abnormalities are found, the doctor may direct for the next analysis, heart monitoring for several days. The device will measure your heart rate, pressure and respiratory rate for 2-3 days, after which a diagnosis will be made based on the data.
It is also necessary to exclude complications of diseases, to determine and make an accurate diagnosis. It is important to follow the therapy. If your health worsens, you must again consult a doctor. Most often, in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, corticosteroids and cardio drugs are prescribed.
Speaking of the most popular pills that are used to treat cardiovascular diseases, you need to name "Aspirin", "Captopril", "Nebilet", "Panangin". All medications should be drunk only after prescribing a doctor. As for non-pharmaceutical methods of treating the heart, examples of effective herbal medicine are a decoction of Valerian grass, mint tinctures and tea with chamomile flowers.
Summary
To summarize, it should be said that normally a person should not feel his heartbeat. If this problem occurs, you should immediately consult a specialist. Timely treatment can save health and save a life.