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Your premature beats is Benign or not?

Your premature beats is Benign or not?


Your premature beats is Benign or not? In most cases, the heartbeat of most healthy people is unconventional. Just like the second hand of a clock, the time interval between each beating is basically fixed.

Your premature beats is Benign or not?

 


1. Lift the veil of “premature beats”

The beating of our heart is driven by “electrical activity”.

The heart has a complete electrical conduction system. If the heart is compared to a house, the electrical conduction system is like the circuit of a house.

Under normal circumstances, the heart’s electrical impulse is regularly emitted by the sinus node, so in general, our physical examination electrocardiogram will report “sinus rhythm.”

Many people don’t know whether sinus rhythm is normal. Here is a statement-sinus rhythm is a normal rhythm of the heart.

If the physical examination report is sinus rhythm, then congratulations, the basic rhythm of your heart is normal.

Therefore, the heartbeat of most healthy people is unconventional in most cases, just like the second hand of a clock, the time interval between each beating is basically fixed.

 

 

2. Premature beats! Heart beats early?

Premature beat refers to the early beating of the heart’s ectopic pacemaker (non-sinus node). It is because of the early beating, there will be a compensatory interval afterwards, and the heartbeat will continue after “waiting”, so there is often a heart The feeling of “pause”.

Premature beats include atrial premature, ventricular premature and junctional premature beats. The above three kinds of premature beats have basically the same health meaning, so I won’t go into details here.

 

 

3. Is premature beats life-threatening?

Before answering this question, we must first figure out the basis of premature contractions.

Premature beats are basically divided into the following two situations:

The first type: premature beats occur, but the heart does not have any other organic diseases. This is a functional benign premature beats, we call it “Benign premature beats”.

This kind of premature beats is the most common and less harmful, and basically does not affect people’s health and life expectancy. The treatment is mainly symptomatic.

The second type: premature beats occur on the basis of organic heart disease, such as coronary heart disease, heart failure, congenital structural heart disease, etc. We call it “disease premature beats” for the time being.

This kind of premature beat has a certain degree of harm, but its harm mainly comes from the underlying disease itself.

When you first know that you have premature beats, please don’t panic. In fact, 90% of healthy people have premature beats, and most of them belong to the first type of functional premature beats.

If you can’t tell which kind of premature contraction belongs to by yourself, you can go to the cardiology department and ask a specialist to help you judge.

 

 

4. What causes premature beats?

“Benign premature beats” are actually a normal phenomenon in the electrical activity of the human heart, and there is no cause for it. But anxiety, staying up late, eating caffeine, etc. can cause the “early” increase.

“Disease premature beats” require a cardiologist to help determine the cause of the disease, which is often impossible for us to judge.

Does premature beats mean myocardial infarction? Will it die suddenly? For healthy people who have a “good morning”, the answer is all-no!

In the case of “disease premature beats”, because the underlying organic heart disease often has more severe symptoms than premature beats, premature beats are just one of the insignificant links. Whether it is dangerous or not depends entirely on the underlying heart disease rather than Premature beats.

 

 

5. How to treat premature beats?

“Benign premature beats” treatment depends on two aspects, one is the number of premature beats, and the other is the patient’s symptoms.

There are not many “Benign premature beats”, and those who have no symptoms do not need treatment at all.

Some patients with “Benign premature beats” have severe discomfort, chest tightness, heart palpitations, and insomnia, which affect their normal life. Such premature beats require treatment.

There is also a kind of “Benign premature beats” patients who have no symptoms, but the number of premature beats is particularly large. The premature beats on the 24-hour holter account for more than 10% of the total heart beats and need treatment.

“Benign premature beats” is actually mainly for the treatment of the primary disease and the treatment of premature beats.

Do all premature beats need interventional surgery?

Under normal circumstances, when the number of premature ventricular beats in 24 hours exceeds 10% of the total heart rate, after active drug treatment is ineffective or unable to stop the drug, patients with severe ventricular premature beats are considered for radiofrequency ablation.

 

6. How to treat it correctly?

For “Benign premature beats”, a quote-“Benign premature beats” is like a spring, if you are strong, it will be weak, and if you are weak, it will be strong!

The less you care about it and the less nervous it is, the less it will affect you. On the contrary, the more nervous and anxious, the more it will affect you.

Therefore, in the face of “Benign premature beats”, we must adjust our mentality, regular life and rest, especially not staying up late, stay away from strong tea, coffee and alcohol and other stimulating beverages, and strengthen exercise.

If it is “disease premature beats”, seek medical help as soon as possible.

In addition, it is necessary to specifically state that even if there are more than 10% of “Benign premature beats” women of gestational age, they can get pregnant and give birth, but they need to seek a professional cardiologist for evaluation in advance when preparing for pregnancy.

 

 

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