What is sick sinus syndrome? What causes sick sinus syndrome? Who is at risk for sick sinus syndrome? What are the symptoms of sick sinus syndrome? How is sick sinus syndrome diagnosed?

Understanding Sick Sinus Syndrome

Sick sinus syndrome (SSS) is a condition that affects the heart’s natural pacemaker, known as the SA or sinoatrial node, located in the heart’s upper right chamber. This node is responsible for generating normal heartbeats at the appropriate rate. In SSS, the SA node becomes damaged, which can lead to an abnormal heart rate.

Causes of Sick Sinus Syndrome

Any condition that can cause damage to the heart can also damage the SA node, leading to the development of SSS. Some common causes include:

• Coronary artery disease
• Past heart attack
• Atrial fibrillation
• Heart failure or cardiomyopathy
• Certain medications, such as beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and digoxin
• Severe hypothyroidism
• Inflammatory conditions affecting the heart, like rheumatic fever, Chagas disease, pericarditis, and myocarditis
• Infiltrative heart diseases, including sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, scleroderma, and hemochromatosis
• Electrolyte imbalances, such as high potassium levels
• Rare genetic disorders
• Trauma

It’s important to note that some of these conditions, like hypothyroidism, hypothermia, and electrolyte problems, can be reversed, while aging is also a contributing factor to the development of SSS.

Who is at Risk for Sick Sinus Syndrome?

Sick sinus syndrome can affect both men and women equally and can occur at any age, but it is most common in people over the age of 70. Individuals with the following conditions are at a greater risk of developing SSS:

• Coronary artery disease or history of heart attack
• Heart failure or cardiomyopathy
• Atrial fibrillation
• Inflammatory conditions affecting the heart, such as rheumatic fever, pericarditis, Chagas disease, or myocarditis
• Infiltrative heart diseases, including sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, hemochromatosis, or scleroderma
• Hypothyroidism
• Rare genetic disorders
• Trauma

Additionally, individuals taking certain medications, such as beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, digoxin, or antiarrhythmic drugs, may also be at a higher risk of developing SSS.

Symptoms of Sick Sinus Syndrome

Individuals with sick sinus syndrome may experience a range of symptoms, or they may have no symptoms at all. Common symptoms of SSS include:

• Dizziness
• Fainting
• Shortness of breath, especially with exertion
• Severe fatigue and weakness

Diagnosing Sick Sinus Syndrome

To diagnose sick sinus syndrome, your healthcare provider will typically start by taking your medical history and performing a physical examination. They may then recommend one or more of the following tests:

• Electrocardiogram (ECG): This test records the electrical activity of your heart and can help identify abnormalities in your heart rate and rhythm.
• Stress test: This test involves monitoring your heart’s activity while you exercise on a treadmill or stationary bike.
• Holter monitor: This is a portable device that records your heart’s activity over an extended period, typically 24 hours or more.
• Event recorder: This is a device that you wear for several days or weeks, which records your heart’s activity when you experience symptoms.

If the initial tests do not provide a clear diagnosis, your healthcare provider may recommend additional testing, such as an electrophysiology study, to further evaluate the function of your heart’s electrical system.

Treating Sick Sinus Syndrome

The treatment for sick sinus syndrome will depend on the severity of your symptoms and the underlying cause of your condition. In some cases, treating the underlying condition, such as reversing hypothyroidism or addressing electrolyte imbalances, may be enough to improve your heart rate and rhythm. In more severe cases, you may require medication or a pacemaker to help regulate your heart’s electrical activity.

Conclusion

Sick sinus syndrome is a condition that affects the heart’s natural pacemaker, leading to abnormal heart rates. Understanding the causes, risk factors, symptoms, and diagnostic approach is essential for proper management and treatment of this condition. If you are experiencing symptoms related to heart rate or rhythm, it is important to consult with your healthcare provider for a comprehensive evaluation and personalized care plan.

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What is sick sinus syndrome?

Sick sinus syndrome (SSS) is a
disease that affects the heart’s natural pacemaker (the SA or sinoatrial node), located
in the heart’s upper right chamber (right atrium). With SSS, the SA node becomes
damaged, and can no longer generate normal heartbeats at the normal rate. This may
be a
result of aging, or other health conditions that damage the SA node over time. Or
it may
be due to certain medicines. As a result, heartbeats may be too slow. Sometimes SSS
is
linked to other conditions that cause irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias) that lead
to a
fast heart rate. This combination of fast and slow heart rhythm is called tachy-brady
syndrome.

What causes sick sinus syndrome?

Any condition that can cause heart damage can damage the SA node.
This includes:

• Coronary artery disease
• Past heart attack
• Atrial fibrillation
• Heart failure or cardiomyopathy
• Taking certain medicines such as beta
  blockers, calcium channel blockers, and digoxin, and medicines to treat
  arrhythmias
• Severe hypothyroidism
• Inflammatory conditions that involve
  the heart. These include rheumatic fever, Chagas disease, pericarditis, and
  myocarditis.
• Infiltrative heart diseases such as
  sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, scleroderma, and hemochromatosis
• Electrolyte problems such as high
  potassium levels
• Rare diseases that run in the
  family
• Trauma

Hypothyroidism, hypothermia, and electrolyte problems generally can
be reversed.

Aging is also linked to loss of sinus node function and the
development of SSS.

Who is at risk for sick sinus syndrome?

Sick sinus syndrome affects men and women equally, and can occur at
any age. But most cases of SSS occur in people over age 70. This is because aging
tends
to slow the heart rate and lower SA node function.

You are at greater risk for SSS if you have any of these:

• Coronary artery disease or history of heart attack
• Heart failure or cardiomyopathy
• Atrial fibrillation
• Inflammatory conditions that can involve the heart such as rheumatic fever, pericarditis,
  Chagas disease, or myocarditis
• Infiltrative heart diseases such as sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, hemochromatosis, or
  scleroderma
• Hypothyroidism
• Rare diseases that run in the
  family
• Trauma

You are also at greater risk of you take medicines such as beta
blockers, calcium channel blockers, or digoxin, or medicines to treat arrhythmias.

What are the symptoms of sick sinus syndrome?

You may have sick sinus syndrome with few or no symptoms. If you do have symptoms,
they may include:

• Dizziness
• Fainting
• Shortness of breath, especially with
  exertion
• Severe tiredness (fatigue) and weakness

How is sick sinus syndrome diagnosed?

Your healthcare provider may think
you have SSS based on your symptoms, but they are common in many other diseases. To
diagnose your condition, your healthcare provider will do an electrocardiogram (ECG).
This is a machine that records your heart’s rate and rhythm. If you don’t have symptoms
at the time of your ECG, it may look normal.

Other possible tests include:

• An ECG
  while you walk on a treadmill (stress test).
  
• A Holter
  monitor.
  This is a recorder you wear for over 24 hours that takes an ECG. Some
  holters can be worn for several weeks.

• An event
  recorder.
  This is a recorder you wear over several days to weeks that samples
  your heart rate.
• An implantable loop recorder.

  This is a small heart recorder put underneath the skin over the heart. It records
  the heart rhythm for up to 3 years.

• Electrophysiologic testing. This is a hospital test that involves threading
  catheters into your heart through a vein in your groin.
• Echocardiogram or ultrasound of your heart. This is done to check for
  structural heart problems.

How is sick sinus syndrome treated?

You may have SSS without symptoms
and not need treatment. But if you do have symptoms and need treatment, there are
options. They include:

• Medicine change. Your healthcare
  provider may change your medicines if you are taking any known to cause SSS.
• Pacemaker. The most common treatment
  for people with symptoms that don’t have a cause that can be reversed is a pacemaker.
  This is a small, battery-powered device that takes the place of your SA node and
  regulates your heart rate. A doctor places a pacemaker under the skin of your chest
  during minor surgery. Wires are put in the heart that can monitor the heart rate and
  stimulate the heartbeat when needed.

What are possible complications of sick sinus syndrome?

SSS often gets worse over time.
When your heart beats too slowly, or too quickly,  it can lead to complications:

• You may be injured if you pass out
  (faint) during an arrhythmia.
• Cardiac blood flow may be impaired.
  This can lead to other organ damage such as brain and kidney function.

Living with sick sinus syndrome

The aging of your SA node causes
most cases of SSS, and there’s no way to prevent that. But you can help prevent
complications by learning as much as you can about the disease and working closely
with
your cardiologist to find the best treatment.

You can also make healthy lifestyle changes:

• Don’t smoke.
• Work with your healthcare provider to
  keep conditions such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure under control.
• Eat a heart-healthy diet.
• Maintain a healthy weight.
• Get regular exercise.
• Tell your healthcare provider if you have any symptoms.

Key points about sick sinus syndrome

• Sick sinus syndrome (SSS) is a slow
  heart rate.
• The most common cause is a gradual loss of SA node function that comes with age.
• You may have no symptoms or you may
  have dizziness, fainting, shortness of breath, or fatigue.
• SSS may be treated by changing your
  medicines, treating underlying health conditions, or inserting a pacemaker.
• Not smoking, keeping your cholesterol
  and blood pressure under control, eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy
  weight, and getting regular exercise can help reduce the risk for SSS.

Next steps

Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your healthcare provider:

• Know the reason for your visit and what you want to happen.
• Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.
• Bring someone with you to help you ask questions and remember what your provider tells
  you.
• At the visit, write down the name of a new diagnosis, and any new medicines, treatments,
  or tests. Also write down any new instructions your provider gives you.
• Know why a new medicine or treatment is prescribed, and how it will help you. Also
  know what the side effects are.
• Ask if your condition can be treated in other ways.
• Know why a test or procedure is recommended and what the results could mean.
• Know what to expect if you do not take the medicine or have the test or procedure.
• If you have a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that
  visit.
• Know how you can contact your provider if you have questions.

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Palpitations – BHF

What are palpitations?

Palpitations feel like your heart is racing, pounding, fluttering or like you have missed heartbeats. Palpitations can last seconds, minutes or longer. You may feel this in your chest, neck, or throat.

Palpitations can happen at anytime, even if you are resting or doing normal activities. Although they can be unpleasant, palpitations are common and, in most cases, harmless.

What causes palpitations?

Palpitations can be caused by heart conditions including:

• arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm)
• cardiomyopathy
• congenital heart conditions
• heart attack
• heart failure
• heart valve disease.

Other causes of palpitations include:

• alcohol
• caffeine
• certain medicines (both prescription and over-the-counter)
• ectopic beats (early or extra heartbeats)
• hormonal changes (due to pregnancy or menopause)
• intense exercise
• recreational drugs
• smoking
• stress and anxiety
• triggering foods (such as spicy or rich food).

They can also be caused by other medical conditions like an overactive thyroid and anaemia (lack of iron).

Should I get medical help?

You should make an appointment to see your GP if:

• your palpitations last a long time, don’t improve or get worse
• you have a history of heart problems
• you’re concerned about the palpitations.

You should call 999 if you have palpitations and experience any of the following symptoms:

• severe shortness of breath
• chest pain or tightness
• dizziness and light headedness
• fainting or blackouts.

How are palpitations diagnosed?

Your GP may arrange for you to have a trace of heart (electrocardiogram/ECG) to check whether the heart rate is regular and at a normal rate. This painless test lasts a few minutes.

If your ECG shows something abnormal, or your symptoms continue to bother you, you may need to have further tests or heart monitoring over a longer period. Visit our ECG page or speak to your doctor if you’re concerned about this and similar tests.

How are palpitations treated?

As palpitations are often harmless, they usually don’t need treatment. However, you’ll need treatment if tests show your palpitations are caused by an underlying heart condition.

The type of treatment you’ll have depends on your condition. For example, if you’re diagnosed with an arrhythmia, your doctor might prescribe beta blockers to regulate your heart rate and rhythm.

Are you finding it hard to get medical help?

We know that many of you are experiencing delays to treatment at this time, or have questions and concerns about getting medical help. We’ve created this set of information to help you with these issues.

• Where to get medical help if your appointment is delayed or cancelled
• Appointment and surgery delays
• When do you still need to get medical help?
• Making the most of phone and video appointments

How to prevent palpitations

If you don’t need treatment, the easiest way to manage your symptoms at home is to avoid the triggers that bring on your palpitations. This might include:

• avoiding or drinking less caffeinated drinks
• avoiding or drinking less alcohol (no more than the recommended limit of 14 units a week)
• avoiding foods and activities that trigger palpitations in you (try keeping a symptom diary so you can recognise and avoid triggers)
• managing your stress levels
• not smoking or using tobacco products.

Living a healthier lifestyle can be hard at first, but it’s important for your overall quality of life. Visit our healthy living hub to read about how you can start to eat healthier and manage things like smoking and stress today.

Heart Helpline & other support:

• speak to our cardiac nurses by phone, callback, email or online chat on Heart Helpline (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
• contact us to talk to our customer care advisors, find your local BHF shop and for any comments, compliments and complaints you may have
• sign up to our Heart Matters magazine for online information packed with health and lifestyle advice.

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Head spinning and heart beating? It doesn’t mean you’re in love

• David Robson
• BBC Future

December 23, 2018

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It’s surprisingly easy to confuse love fever with flu fever. One of the latest scientific theories describes how quickly our feelings change depending on the context. Will this knowledge help to cope with stress and negative emotions? Yes, the new theory offers us practical tips to help us live more peaceful and productive lives.

One day a colleague asked Lisa Feldman Barrett on a date.

Actually she didn’t like him, but Lisa spent the whole day in the lab and she wanted a change of scenery. She agreed to go with him to a nearby cafe.

They were sitting there and chatting, and suddenly Lisa noticed that she was blushing, she was sucking in the pit of her stomach, and her head was spinning.

Maybe I was wrong, she thought, and I still like him? Maybe I’m even in love? And by the end of the date, she even agreed to meet again.

Still feeling strange, she came home, closed the door behind her, and immediately vomited.

It turns out that it was not love, but just the flu. She spent the next week in bed.

How could one confuse the work of a virus with love fever?

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Barrett is a psychologist at Northeastern University in Boston, where she is trying to figure out how we create our emotions.

That’s what her book How Emotions Are Made is about, and what she experienced on that date is just one example of how our feelings can confuse us.

And although we may insist that we already know how and what we feel, Barrett demonstrates in his book that anger, anxiety, hunger, or feeling sick are not so unambiguous, they can be easily confused with other feelings.

This misinterpretation of the signals our nervous system sends us can lead to far-reaching consequences.

Fortunately, Barrett’s theory offers us some practical tips for controlling our emotions and feelings to help us live a more peaceful and productive life.

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Charles Darwin believed that evolution has led to each emotion having its own characteristics

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Her conclusions deviate markedly from conventional wisdom about the world of human emotions, as outlined nearly 150 years ago in Charles Darwin’s On the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

Darwin believed that evolution has led to the fact that each emotion has its own characteristic features, “expressive movements” – facial expressions, gestures, increased heart rate, sweating of the palms, etc..

However, the results of Barrett’s research show that everything is far from simple and there are no constant signs of this or that emotion.

Each emotion can be represented by the widest range of reactions of the brain and body, and such reactions are strongly superimposed on each other, largely coinciding with different emotions.

As Barrett points out, how we interpret bodily signals (and whether we feel happy or anxious about them) is entirely context and circumstance dependent and can be adjusted by our expectations.

As an example, Barrett describes a “disgusting food” themed party she threw for her 12-year-old daughter’s birthday.

She put the usual food for this kind of party on the table – pizza, juice…

But at the same time she smeared the cheese slices with green food paint to make them look moldy.

She poured the juice into jars, usually designed to collect urine for analysis.

Diapers artistically smeared with baby food became the highlight of the program.

As expected, the children who came to visit looked at all this with befitting disgust.

“Many people simply couldn’t bring themselves to touch food, because their bodies involuntarily modeled a reaction to something that was not actually there,” the researcher writes.

“Although the guests understood that they were wearing ordinary food in front of them, some began to vomit.”

We at BBC Future decided to repeat the experiment, and although our colleagues are adults and have better self-control than 12-year-olds, it’s safe to say that few of us enjoyed the experience.

We all know these feelings. But seriously, our brains simply designed them.

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Thinking food looks like baby poop triggers disgust

the participants in the experiment saw in front of them, triggering a reaction of disgust.

It would seem that the experiment is nowhere simpler. But Barrett insists that our emotions work in the same way in other cases.

Let’s think about her date. Those few physical sensations – heat, discomfort in the stomach, and so on. – could be correctly assessed as signs of illness if she was at home, in bed, with a thermometer under her arm.

But because she was on a date, her brain constructed a completely different emotion from the same physical sensations – a romantic attraction to a person. (While according to the classical theory of Darwin, these two feelings should be easily distinguished from each other.)

Abdominal discomfort can be a sign of food poisoning, but when you are away from home and your family, for example, and you miss them so much, you may mistake this feeling for the body’s reaction to a bout of nostalgia.

An increased heart rate can be interpreted as a sign of excitement from the extreme sensations on the rollercoaster ride, or as a sign of excitement before an important performance.

Or maybe your body is just sending you a signal that you have drunk too much coffee. The physiological signs of both, and the other, and the third will be very similar.

Much follows from Barrett’s theory. On the one hand, she says, we learn from others how to interpret our feelings.

“Concepts like ‘anger’ or ‘disgust’ are not genetically programmed in us,” she writes. concepts are meaningful and useful. In other cultures, these same sensations can be interpreted in completely different ways.”

Our parents and friends, TV shows and books we read, our own life experience, our feelings and thoughts – all this teaches us which category to put this or that situation and the sensations that it gives rise to in our body, and how to respond to it .

These concepts determine how we will feel in the future. But two people with different backgrounds and raised in different environments may perceive sensations quite differently.

And this is contrary to what we were taught by thinkers like Darwin, who said that anger or disgust is expressed and perceived in the same way by all people.

Barrett Labs worked with a team from the Namibian Himba tribe, asking them to sort by similarity photographs of people’s faces expressing different emotions.

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Anger or disgust is expressed and perceived differently by people

Barrett found that the categories of himba were very different from those familiar to Westerners. Their interpretation of what they saw in the photograph was different.

One picture showed the face of a man with wide eyes. In the West, such an expression is usually considered frightened, while the Himba simply referred to it as “looking. ”

The same picture was observed when the Africans were asked to describe the sounds made by people – their perception was again very different from the Western.

Barrett gives many other examples of how different cultures interpret sensations.

One of the Eskimos does not have a concept of anger, and the Tahitians do not seem to understand what our sadness is.

You can also trace how emotional concepts have changed throughout history.

As Barrett points out, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not tend to smile broadly, which suggests that they expressed pleasure and other positive emotions differently than we do.

The smiles we are accustomed to today – wide, baring teeth, with wrinkles around the eyes – only became common in the 18th century (perhaps because many could afford to visit the dentist).

According to Cambridge University scholar Mary Beard, this does not mean that the ancient Romans never raised the corners of their mouth (what we now call a smile).

“Of course they did, but in the Roman cultural and social system, such a facial expression meant little. Likewise, some gestures that today we do not perceive as important, among the ancient Romans meant a lot.”

The subject of Barrett’s research is not only of academic interest. Her book testifies that there are ways to help us ride our emotions and manage them more wisely.

The fact that states such as hunger, fatigue or illness send the same signals to our body as emotions of anger, anxiety or sadness only emphasizes the importance of taking care of your body by stabilizing your mood.

Of course, this can include healthy eating and regular exercise, but Barrett also points out the need for pleasurable things like massages.

These things are not luxury at all, but a simple and practical way to maintain a good, balanced mood.

The now popular mindfulness meditation, meanwhile, should help you more easily recognize and sort out the signals that the body sends.

Understanding the physical causes of an emotion will help you manage your feelings.

“A lot of what seems to be non-emotional to us actually has a huge impact on how you feel,” says Barrett. “This is because the boundary between the physical and the social is so transparent and porous.”

According to Barrett, it helps to understand our own emotions if we correctly and accurately name our experiences. The emotional vocabulary is very important.

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Reading helps us understand emotions more deeply and deal with the most difficult ones

Instead of just describing your state as happy, try to describe it more precisely – for example, “inspired”, “bliss”, etc. Instead of “I’m sad” – “disappointed” or “depressed.”

The result will be a deeper understanding of the situation in which you are, which will allow, for example, to reformulate the feeling of sadness so that it is no longer perceived as something all-encompassing.

It is even possible that you will find a different source of your sadness and remember how you conquered it before.

According to Barrett, people with higher “emotional granulation” (depth of detail) achieve greater success in school, drink less and recover faster from a stressful situation.

They seem to be in even better health: they visit the doctor less often, take less medication and go to the hospital less often.

Barrett says that there are many ways to learn new emotional concepts – reading a lot, watching inspiring movies.

You can also try things you haven’t experienced before by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and seeing how you feel.

“Try dressing differently,” she says. “In the same way that artists learn to distinguish the smallest shades of colors, as wine connoisseurs learn to distinguish the subtle flavors of their favorite drink that others cannot, so you can learn the art of pinpointing any emotion. ”

In different cultures, people classify their feelings in different ways, and you can borrow something from the language of another nation.

Schadenfreude , for example, a recent English borrowing from German for that bittersweet feeling we get when we witness someone’s failure. And there are a lot of such useful definitions of different emotions in other languages.

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Like a sommelier who discerns the finest shades of wine, we can learn to recognize complex emotions

Sooner or later, after persistent practice, you will learn to classify the emotional situation you find yourself in, with clinical precision.

For example, Barett really likes the Dutch “gezellig” (feeling of community), the Japanese “age-otori” (the feeling you get when you look worse after a visit to the hairdresser than before) and the Czech “litost” (torment from -for adversity combined with a desire for revenge).

“Each such word is an invitation to look at your feelings in a new way,” she says.

Barrett admits that all of these steps may seem too simplistic for someone in an emotional crisis. She doesn’t claim to have found a solution to every emotional problem.

“Is it possible to change your mood just at the snap of your fingers? Or, for example, with the same ease with which you change clothes? – she writes. – Not at all.”

“Even if you have learned to build your emotional experiences, they can still overwhelm you at some point. However, now you can take concrete steps to manage your future emotions and feelings – and thus affect how you will be tomorrow “.

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You can read the original of this article in English at site BBC Future.

Cardiologist Korenevich told what to do if the heart is beating too fast

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If it seems to you that the heart is no longer just beating, but pounding in the chest — and the reason for this is not at all joyful excitement, then you should listen to the advice of a cardiologist – what to do in such a situation?

March 14, 2022

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“I feel my heart beating”, “My heart suddenly started beating fast, my breath catches” – patients often turn to a cardiologist with such complaints. Moreover, such sensations appear not after a run or other physical activity, but at rest. What to do if there is no opportunity to immediately seek medical help, the cardiologist explains.

– First of all, you need to calm down and measure the pulse rate and blood pressure, – said Anna Korenevich. – All tactics of subsequent actions will depend on this. If your pulse is in the range of 90-120 and your blood pressure is normal, then in this case you don’t need to do anything, just calm down.

The doctor advises to use relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, meditations, or Edmund Jacobson’s very useful relaxation technique – an effective set of exercises for quick relaxation.

– If you have high blood pressure , , then you should take any drug from the beta-blocker group, cardiologist Anna Korenevich recommends. – If the pressure is low, then you need to lie down horizontally and raise your legs, also drink more liquid.

With a pulse not higher than 90-120 beats per minute and normal pressure, nothing can be done. The main thing is to calm down.

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– Some patients feel palpitations even with a pulse of 60-70-80 beats per minute at rest. This means that a person has a psycho-emotional overstrain, – the doctor explains. “Medicines and doctors can’t really help here. You just need to work with your emotions on your own. Here, sedatives will help – any.

And avoiding stress is very important, the expert recommends.

– It is important to pay attention to the information flow that comes to you, says the cardiologist. “It needs to be extinguished, it needs to be interrupted. I advise you not to watch any news – from the word “absolutely”. Watch entertainment programs, good films, read good books.

The cardiologist reminds you that it is important to take your pulse at rest.

– If you walk, move, the pulse is 120 – this is the norm, and nothing needs to be done in this case, – notes Anna Korenevich.

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Previously, Elena Chernenko, a general practitioner, told us what to do if your blood pressure rises — walk or lie down.