Dizziness in a 16-year-old child who can’t sleep and a fast heartbeat can be caused by physiological reasons such as mental tension and pathological reasons such as severe anemia, low blood potassium and endocrine diseases.
1. Mental tension: if the child is facing academic pressure or suffering from some kind of blow, there may be mental tension, anxiety and other adverse emotional state, resulting in the emergence of sympathetic excitation at night to enhance the situation, the clinical manifestations of increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, and may also appear dizziness and other symptoms.
2. Severe anemia: This condition refers to the lack of red blood cells in the peripheral blood of the body, which will cause the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood to be reduced, with clinical manifestations such as dizziness, accelerated heart rate, etc. The physical discomfort will also have an impact on the sleep of the affected people.
3. Hypokalemia: This condition refers to the pathological state in which the serum potassium is lower than the normal physiological minimum concentration, which will affect the normal physiological function of the body, with clinical manifestations such as muscle weakness, arrhythmia, depression, etc. At the same time, the discomfort of the body will also have an impact on the sleep.
4. Endocrine diseases: clinically, the common diseases include pituitary tumor, hyperthyroidism and pheochromocytoma, etc. The above mentioned diseases will cause the relevant hormone secretion disorder and lead to its increased concentration in the blood, which will lead to dizziness, elevated blood pressure, accelerated heart rate, etc. If the disease is the cause, it is recommended to have a good sleep, which will affect the normal physiological function of the body.
If it is a disease factor, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination to carry out targeted treatment to improve the related discomfort symptoms.