What is premature heart beat

Patients with premature heart beats usually experience symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, and palpitations, which have a great impact on human health. If premature heart beats occur frequently in life, it will not only endanger physical health, but also seriously affect daily life. It needs to be taken seriously. When premature heart beats occur frequently, it is likely caused by heart disease. It is best to go to the hospital for relevant examinations and treatment in time.

What are premature heart beats?

Premature heart beats refer to premature ectopic heart beats, which means the heart beats outside the regular heartbeat pattern. This symptom may be caused by physiological reasons or pathological reasons. Emotional excitement, mental fatigue, irregular lifestyle, overeating, smoking and drinking may all cause premature heart beats. If patients experience this symptom frequently, it will seriously affect cardiovascular health and may even lead to the occurrence of diseases such as coronary heart disease, seriously endangering the patient's physical health and even threatening life safety. Therefore, after this symptom appears, we must not be careless and should go to the hospital for examination in time.

What should I do if I have premature heart beats?

After experiencing this symptom, patients should go to the hospital for an electrocardiogram in time. If this symptom only occurs occasionally, the patient does not need to worry too much. It will not cause too much harm to the health. Just pay attention to taking good care measures in daily life. If a patient has frequent premature heart beats, it is most likely caused by organic heart disease. We must find out the cause in time and treat the primary disease to avoid worsening of the symptoms. In addition, we can also use antiarrhythmic drugs, such as beta blockers, phenytoin or carbamazepine, to relieve the patient's symptoms of premature beats.

In short, we must correctly understand the symptom of premature heart beats. If the patient only experiences this symptom occasionally, there is no need to worry too much, as it will not have much impact on physical health. However, if the patient frequently experiences symptoms of premature beats, this is most likely caused by heart disease. We should actively seek treatment to avoid delaying the disease and causing more serious consequences.

How to treat premature heart beats

Premature heart beats can occur in normal people, but they are more common and more likely to occur in patients with cardiac neurosis and organic heart disease. Emotional excitement, nervous tension, physical fatigue, indigestion, excessive smoking, drinking alcohol or strong tea can all cause attacks without any obvious triggers.

If premature beats occur, a doctor's examination is needed to determine whether they are atrial premature beats or ventricular premature beats. If premature beats occur occasionally, there will be no major impact and no obvious clinical symptoms will occur. No treatment is required, but medication can be taken under the guidance of a doctor.

Diet therapy for patients with premature heart beats

1. Lamb stewed with salvia miltiorrhiza, astragalus and angelica sinensis

Ingredients: Salvia miltiorrhiza, Astragalus membranaceus, Angelica sinensis, ginger, and appropriate amount of mutton.

Method: Combine salvia miltiorrhiza, astragalus, angelica, ginger and mutton. Add appropriate amount of water, cook together, eat the meat and drink the soup, take it on an empty stomach every morning and evening.

Efficacy: Salvia miltiorrhiza promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, cools blood and relieves restlessness, calms the mind and resolves pus, and relieves pain; Astragalus membranaceus replenishes qi and raises yang, consolidates the exterior and stops sweating, and supports sores and promotes tissue regeneration; Angelica sinensis replenishes blood and regulates menstruation, promotes blood circulation and relieves pain, moisturizes dryness and lubricates the intestines; ginger induces sweating and relieves exterior symptoms, warms the middle and stops vomiting; mutton replenishes deficiency and strengthens qi.

2. Longan and lotus seed porridge

Ingredients: longan meat, lotus seeds, and glutinous rice.

Preparation method: Cook longan meat, lotus seeds, jujube and glutinous rice together into porridge.

Efficacy: Longan meat has the effect of nourishing the heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the mind. It has a good effect in treating symptoms such as insufficient qi and blood, palpitations, forgetfulness and insomnia, blood deficiency and sallow complexion.