Causes of bradycardia, understand the causes and do tests

Bradyheart rate is caused by physiological, drug-related, and systemic disease factors. If the heart rate is too slow but there is no discomfort, do not seek treatment. If discomfort symptoms occur and affect your health, you must seek timely treatment. The most common treatment is to install a pacemaker.

1. Causes of bradycardia

1: Physiological: Normal people, especially athletes who participate in physical exercise for a long time or people who do heavy physical labor, may experience sinus bradycardia. Sleepiness and fear can also cause temporary bradycardia. For example, some techniques such as compressing the eyeball, pressing the carotid sinus, vomiting, and vasoinhibitory syncope can cause sinus bradycardia.

2: Systemic diseases: influenza, typhoid fever, hypothyroidism, diphtheria recovery period, obstructive jaundice, increased intracranial pressure, certain infections such as leptospirosis, infectious mononucleosis, pituitary dysfunction, hyperkalemia, alkali poisoning, esophageal diverticulum, depression, can all cause sinus bradycardia.

2. Related inspections

1. For people who do not have any heart discomfort, the pulse rate is between 50 and 60 beats per minute. This sinus bradycardia is mostly physiological, that is, it is a normal phenomenon. There is no need to worry about it affecting your health and no treatment is required.

2. For people who have heart discomfort, pay attention to counting the pulse rate when you are calm, and then count the pulse rate when you feel heart discomfort. If the pulse rate is lower than usual every time you feel uncomfortable, it means that your discomfort is caused by bradycardia and you need treatment. In severe cases, you need to install a pacemaker to speed up your heart rate. You can also check your 24-hour electrocardiogram to see what your heart rate is at its slowest. If the speed of your heartbeat has nothing to do with heart discomfort and your pulse is between 50 and 60 beats per minute, you do not need to treat your bradycardia, but you do need to do other tests to confirm whether you have heart disease.