The normal heart rate can range from sixty to hundreds per minute, and for most people who do not have health problems, their heart beats at a speed of 65 to 100 beats per minute. However, depending on some reasons, the heart rate may vary. For example, for some time after a hard, tense workout in the gym, the pulse will most likely be above the norm one and a half to two times. A slow heart rate can sometimes also have causes unrelated to a disease. In general, in a calm position in people who are constantly engaged in physical training, the heart beats a little less often than in untrained ones.
Do you have a rare pulse? This may not always be a sign of a disease. Perhaps, some time before lowering your heart rate, you were taking medications that affected the number of contractions of your heart per minute. For example, if you take digitalis to remove cardiac arrhythmia, or a beta-blocker to combat hypertension, migraine or angina pectoris, then your slow heartbeat could well be the result of taking such drugs. However, there are other reasons for this.
If you have a rare pulse (below 60), and at the same time you are not a supporter of a healthy lifestyle and related physical training, but you also do not take those drugs that could reduce the heart rate, then this is probably due to because your thyroid is not working well. If you are constantly tired, sometimes suffer from constipation, your hair gradually falls out or becomes coarse and you feel cold when others do not feel it, then, together with a decrease in the heart rate, this may directly indicate that everything is not good with your thyroid gland.
A very rare pulse (less than fifty-five beats per minute), caused by a heart block or a sinus node, is called bradycardia in medicine. A diagnosis of bradycardia can be made by a doctor who examines your electrocardiogram. If you suffer from fatigue, frequent dizziness, blood pressure "jumps", constantly remaining unstable, and all this accompanies a rare pulse, then consult a doctor. Methods of healing can be both therapeutic and surgical, depending on the cause of the disease.
If the slow pulse is caused by problems in the functioning of muscle fibers, which transmit various impulses in the cardiac mechanism, then the consequences of this can be very dangerous. A very low heart rate in this case can result in heart block, which in some cases can lead to death.
It often happens that a person, measuring the frequency of heartbeats, discovers a weak pulse. In this case, many people have, if not panic, then serious anxiety: “What is wrong with my heart? Why is it not beating in full force? ” Many, having discovered such a “symptom,” run to the doctor. However, if a weak pulse is not accompanied by any other signs of a possible disease, then no doctor will pay attention to it. Only together with others can weakened heart beats tell about a disease. However, if you have a slow pulse (less than fifty beats per minute), and even a weak one, then go to the doctor. It often happens that the sensations by which you determined the weakening of heart beats are the result of a perception error. For example, you measured the pulse in the wrong place. Or your hands were cold when you tried to measure it. Also, determining the number of heart beats per minute is often difficult for obese people who find it difficult to fix them through a layer of fat.
All those reasons that violate the required blood volume and proper blood flow can lead to such a consequence as weakening of heart beats. If you even had a weak pulse, there were dizziness, shortness of breath, increased sweating, and conditions that were close to fainting, then this all indicates impaired blood flow or the required amount of blood in the body (anemia). Loss of significant blood volume or dehydration reduces the frequency of heart beats.
A weak pulse is often observed in acute heart failure. The heart, if affected by any infection, is weakened by a certain disease, cannot pump the right amount of blood. And so part of the blood comes back to the heart and lungs. In this case, the pulse is weak, but frequent.