Many patients with premature heart beats detected during medical checkups are often worried and actively request treatment. This is due to people’s misconceptions about premature beats. Patients with premature beats should be treated differently; if they are functional, they do not need too much treatment, but focus on adjusting their work and rest and controlling their emotions. The first mistake is that the heart stops beating. The normal heartbeat is regular and the intervals between heartbeats are basically equal, but if there is a sudden advance in the heartbeat, it is medically known as premature beat (premature beat), which can occur when the pulse is touched or “missed beat”. Premature beats can be divided into atrial premature beats, sinus premature beats, and atrioventricular junctional zone premature beats. Regardless of the type of premature beat, the heart does not stop beating, but the blood pulses are slightly less than normal, resulting in a weakened pulse as if it had stopped once. Those who can feel their own pulse can feel that the pulse is slightly stronger after a premature beat because more blood is pulsing after the premature beat than normal, thus compensating for the decrease in blood output caused by the premature beat. Therefore, premature beats do not stop the heart. If a 24-hour continuous observation of a normal person is performed with an ECG, 70-80% of people may have premature beats. Although premature beats are irregular heartbeats, they are not always caused by diseases. Premature beats can be caused by emotional stress, excitement, anxiety, excessive smoking, heavy alcohol consumption, strong tea, and even constipation. The risk of premature beats is determined by the severity of the original disease and the tendency of the beats to develop into malignant arrhythmias, not by the number of beats or the symptoms. Most patients with premature beats do not have uncomfortable symptoms, or simply feel a sensation such as a heart swing, or 1 heavy beat, or a twisting of the heart. Frequent premature beats may cause palpitations, chest tightness, fatigue and other discomfort, while many people with particularly frequent premature beats can sometimes experience no discomfort at all. For example, many students with premature beats in their ECG are found during medical checkups, but they are still alive and well and do not feel anything different. Therefore, the number of premature beats has nothing to do with the severity of the symptoms or the risk. Mistake 4: If you have premature beats, you must use medication to eliminate them. When premature beats are detected, it is usually difficult to judge the nature on your own and you should go to the hospital to check for hidden heart disorders. Based on the medical history and physical examination, the doctor will perform X-rays, electrocardiograms and echocardiograms, as well as exercise tests for those with a family history of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis risk factors. If all the above tests are normal, no treatment is needed. If premature beats are mainly caused by mental tension and anxiety or chronic insomnia, you should be relieved of your worries and use appropriate sedative drugs, which will help to eliminate premature beats. What should I do if I find premature beats? Method 1: Find the cause of premature beats. It is not necessary to be overly nervous when premature beats occur. If the cause of premature beats can be found, the beats can be gradually eliminated by removing the cause of premature beats and curing the disease that triggered them. If the cause of premature beats cannot be found, ask your doctor to decide whether treatment of premature beats is necessary. The majority of patients with premature contractions have a good prognosis. For frequent premature contractions for which no cause can be found, they may have occurred long ago and many patients are used to them. Episodic premature beats have little effect on blood circulation, especially if they are not caused by other diseases, and the premature beats themselves are not serious diseases, so treatment is generally not necessary. Therefore, patients with premature beats should eliminate ideological concerns and maintain optimism. The treatment is needed for those whose symptoms seriously affect their lives or may cause serious heart rhythm disorders. Frequent premature beats, especially those that may evolve into serious heart rhythm disorders on the basis of heart disease or may lead to angina and heart failure, should be treated with attention. There are many drugs that can relieve premature beats, such as betalactam, isoptin, and acetaminophen, etc. These drugs are more potent and should be taken under the guidance of a physician. If the patient is unable to tolerate frequent premature beats that are not treated with medication, radiofrequency ablation can be performed, and some patients can be cured. Method 4: Develop a good lifestyle Focus on the adjustment of lifestyle and work and rest patterns, such as drinking less strong tea and coffee, not smoking and drinking alcohol, not staying up too late, going to bed early and waking up early, and doing appropriate physical exercise. It should be emphasized that maintaining emotional stability is very important to prevent functional premature beats, because it is clinically found that high mental tension and excessive psychological stress are the main triggers of functional premature beats.