One of the most important organs for ensuring human life is the heart. During the day, it carries out the work of pumping more than eight thousand liters of blood, while making almost one hundred thousand reductions. In addition, the heart muscle is very sensitive to most external and internal factors that change a person’s condition.
Cardiac arrhythmia is a disease that manifests itself in a disorder of the sequence, frequency or contraction of the myocardial muscle. Symptoms of this pathology are expressed in interruptions in the work of this important organ. These include the increase in heartbeat, fading, as well as a reduction in the chaotic order. The cause of the disease may be hiding in heart diseases previously transferred. Arrhythmias can cause infectious processes, as well as pathologies of the background of hormones. The disease can also appear due to the transferred mental, stressful and emotional stresses.
Arrhythmia, the treatment of which depends on the affiliation of the disease to a particular species, in medical practice is divided into:
- tachycardia;
- bradycardia;
- extrasystole;
- atrial fibrillation.
Tachycardia in most cases does not require a course of therapy. It is recommended that the patient is more at rest and adjust his diet. Strong tea and coffee, chocolate and Coca-Cola, as well as various sweets should be excluded from the daily diet. An important point is the rejection of alcohol and smoking. Such arrhythmia, which is not required with medication , is eliminated if a healthy lifestyle is observed. Only corvalol and tincture of valerian root may be recommended. In exceptional cases, the use of drugs is strictly prescribed by a specialist.
Bradycardia is cured taking into account many concomitant factors. With a low severity of pathology, the passage of a course of therapy is not required. In addition, this type of arrhythmia manifests itself against the background of various myocardial diseases. In this regard, the symptoms of bradycardia may disappear with the treatment of the corresponding ailment. A great threat to the patient's life is a decrease in heart rate to a value equal to or less than fifty reductions per minute. Such arrhythmia, the treatment of which should be carried out only as prescribed by the doctor, can be eliminated with the help of Atropin, Alupent, Atenolol, and Aufillin.
The elimination of extrasystole is made depending on the specific condition of the patient. If the pathology develops against a background of a nervous system disease, then it is recommended to take sedative medications and consult a psychotherapist. If arrhythmia, the treatment of which should primarily be aimed at eliminating the causes, is caused by diseases of other organs, then the main attention is paid to them. In this case, the patient must observe a healthy lifestyle and not drink alcohol, coffee, strong tea and cigarettes.
With atrial fibrillation, the restoration of the number of contractions of the myocardial muscle is carried out using drugs selected by a specialist. As a rule, they are prescribed in the form of intravenous injections. However, in the presence of an attack of the disease, the patient can take a tablet of a previously selected drug on his own. The appointment of a medication by a specialist is based on the specific condition of the patient. If the use of drugs does not provide the necessary therapeutic effect, then the procedure of electric cardioversion can be applied. It restores the rhythm of the myocardial muscle with the help of current discharges delivered to it.
A very common pathology is arrhythmia in children. This disease takes third place, behind the first two arterial hypertension and heart defects. However, the detection of this ailment occurs by chance. Small patients do not feel heart failure .
What is sinus arrhythmia? This is a deviation in the frequency of strokes of the heart muscle by twenty to thirty contractions. In childhood, it can be determined by attaching an ear to the chest of a small patient. This phenomenon is considered normal in the preschool and school period, as it is associated with the development and growth of the body.