The heart is always thumping when napping consider the following reasons, such as hunger, arrhythmia, sympathetic hyperactivity, and hypoglycemia and hyperthyroidism.
1. Excessive hunger: not eaten at noon, will also appear, you can eat a moderate amount of food to relieve, do not recommend overeating.
2. Arrhythmia: such as paroxysmal, supraventricular tachycardia, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, etc.; tachyarrhythmia can be given to improve the symptoms with drugs such as metoprolol orally.
3. Sympathetic hyperactivity: sympathetic nerve is an important nervous system in human body, if nervousness, emotional excitement, anxiety, can cause sympathetic nerve excitation; sympathetic hyperactivity, can use glutamine and so on.
4. Hypoglycemia: Hypoglycemia caused by the heart when napping is always thumping, timely supplementation of sugar, severe hypoglycemia can be given intravenous glucose injection.
5. Hyperthyroidism: the increase of thyroid hormone stimulates sympathetic nerve excitation, clinical manifestations of palpitations, tachycardia, insomnia, emotional agitation, and even anxiety. There are three ways to treat hyperthyroidism, anti-thyroid medication, radioactive iodine therapy and surgery.
There may be other reasons why your heart keeps thumping when you are napping, so we recommend that you go to the hospital in time to have a complete examination to determine the cause of the problem and then give targeted treatment or therapy, and do not blindly use medication on your own.