Elderly people’s rapid heartbeat may be sympathetic excitation and other physiological reasons, may also be pathological reasons, pathological reasons are mostly seen in cardiovascular disease, anemia, hyperthyroidism, electrolyte disorders and other conditions.
1. Physiological reasons: the intake of food that excites the sympathetic nerves, such as strong tea, coffee, or when the emotions are too excited, can lead to rapid heartbeat, usually after a period of time will be relieved by itself, there will be no other discomforts, do not need to pay too much attention.
2. Pathological causes:
(1) cardiovascular disease: such as hypertension, arrhythmia, coronary heart disease, etc., may stimulate the sinus node, resulting in increased frequency of sinus node discharge, appearing fast heartbeat, need to be based on the specific conditions, choose the treatment program, such as hypertension can be used nifedipine, captopril and other treatments, arrhythmia can be used to Metoprolol and other medications to treat treatment.
(2) Anemia: Due to the decrease in the number of red blood cells in the blood, the ability to transport oxygen decreases, easily causing systemic hypoxia, heartbeat compensatory acceleration, increase blood flow to maintain blood supply, causing rapid heartbeat, can be used under the guidance of a doctor to treat iron.
(3) Hyperthyroidism: the body’s thyroid hormone level is too high, which stimulates the nerve excitability to increase, thus causing a rapid heartbeat, and can be treated with eugenol.
(4) Electrolyte disorders: heart muscle activity is affected by calcium ions, potassium ions, sodium ions and other ions, if the electrolyte disorders in the body, the heart muscle contraction function is abnormal, there may be a rapid heartbeat, it is recommended to replenish the electrolytes, such as intravenous infusion of saline, potassium chloride and so on.
All of the above treatment programs and medications should be used under the guidance of a professional doctor, so as to avoid medication errors, resulting in aggravation of the condition.