Do children have faster heart rates than adults?

Everyone's heartbeat speed is different in daily life, but you don't have to worry about it. Different people live in different environments, and their heartbeat speeds are also different. Heartbeat is very important to everyone. Once the heartbeat is abnormal, the health will be seriously harmed and active treatment is required. In daily life, does a child's heartbeat faster than an adult's?

Do children's heart beat faster than adults'?

Generally speaking, the normal heart rate of an average person is 75 beats per minute, but children are more energetic and have a faster metabolism. In addition, their chest cavity is small and their lung capacity is relatively small, so their body needs more blood supply, but the amount of blood ejected by the heart each time is limited. Therefore, only by increasing the heart rate can the deficiency be compensated. At the same time, children's vagus nerve excitability is low, and the sympathetic nerve is dominant, so their heart rate is faster.

Therefore, the younger the age, the faster the heartbeat; it is normal for a child's heartbeat to be faster than that of an adult. Heart rate gradually slows down with age.

Why does the heartbeat sometimes go fast and sometimes go slow?

Parents generally know that a normal person's heart rate will increase after exercise or physical labor. The same is true for children, especially when they are frightened or crying. Children's heart rate is extremely unstable and easily affected by various internal and external factors. Emotional tension, mental excitement, anemia, fever, and high levels of activity can all cause your heart rate to increase. Usually, when the body temperature rises by 1°C, the heart rate can increase by 15-20 beats per minute or more, so it is inevitable that a child with a fever will have a faster heart rate. When the body temperature returns to normal, the heart rate will also return to normal. A child who does strenuous exercise may have a heart rate that reaches or exceeds the normal maximum, but it should return to normal quickly after resting. The baby's body temperature is also affected by the temperature. If the weather is hot, and the baby wears more clothes and covers himself more when sleeping, his body temperature will rise. Therefore, when a child's heartbeat speeds up, you should look for the above reasons. It is best to measure the pulse when the child is quiet or after sleeping. If it still does not slow down, you need to ask a doctor to further find out the cause to see if there is heart disease or other causes that can increase the heartbeat.

What is the normal value of baby's heartbeat?

Children of different ages have different heart rates. The younger they are, the faster their heart rate.

Generally speaking, the normal heart rate range for children is: 120-140 beats/minute for newborns, 110-130 beats/minute for children under 1 year old, 100-120 beats/minute for children 2-3 years old, 80-100 beats/minute for children 4-7 years old, 70-90 beats/minute for children 8-14 years old, and the heart rate of children over 14 years old is close to that of adults, approximately within the range of 60-100 beats/minute, which is all normal.

A child's heart rate is affected by many factors, and you cannot judge whether it is too fast or too slow based on one or two heartbeats. If parents test their child themselves and find that their child's heartbeat is abnormal, exceeding or falling below normal values, it is best to take the child to the hospital for a 24-hour dynamic electrocardiogram and let the doctor make a comprehensive assessment to be safer. In addition, it is best to measure your child's heart rate when he or she is sleeping or quiet.