How can one prevent heart palpitations?
- Palpitations are feelings that your heart is skipping a beat.
- Avoid or limit stimulants, such as caffeine, alcohol, and illegal drugs.
- Treat medical conditions that may lead to palpitations or arrhythmias.
Palpitations are feelings that your heart is skipping a beat, fluttering, or beating too hard or too fast. You may have these feelings in your chest, throat, or neck. They can occur during activity or even when you're sitting still or lying down.
Heart palpitations prevention
Heart palpitations are triggered are by strong emotions, vigorous physical activity, medicines such as diet pills and decongestants, caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, illegal drugs, and certain medical conditions, such as thyroid disease or anemia. These factors make the heart beat faster or stronger than usual, or they cause occasional premature (extra) heartbeats. Sometimes palpitations are symptoms of an arrhythmia (ah-RITH-me-ah). An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat.
Prevention
There are several things that you can do to prevent heart palpitations. Try to reduce anxiety, and stress in your life. Avoid or limit stimulants, such as caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and illegal drugs. Treat medical conditions that may lead to palpitations or arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats).
Image source: Pixabay
Source: Onlymyhealth editorial team Sep 26, 2017
All possible measures have been taken to ensure accuracy, reliability, timeliness and authenticity of the information; however Onlymyhealth.com does not take any liability for the same. Using any information provided by the website is solely at the viewers’ discretion. In case of any medical exigencies/ persistent health issues, we advise you to seek a qualified medical practitioner before putting to use any advice/tips given by our team or any third party in form of answers/comments on the above mentioned website.
