My baby's heart is beating fast, what's going on?

Heartbeat is an important function of the heart. After the baby is born, parents will definitely pay attention to the various functions of the child's body. Some parents find that their baby's heartbeat is very fast. Faced with this abnormal situation, they must be very concerned about the cause of the problem in the child. If there is an abnormality in the heart function, it is the most undesirable thing to see. So, what's going on if the baby's heartbeat is very fast? Let's take a look below.

(1) Physiological: Physiological tachycardia usually occurs in infancy and childhood, and some patients with ventricular tachycardia do not have organic heart disease or other systemic diseases. It usually occurs during exercise.

(2) Heart disease: Heart disease is the main cause of a rapid heart rate in children. Common causes include viral myocarditis, congenital heart disease, and heart surgery and postoperative heart disease. Cardiomyopathy and cardiac tumors are also common causes.

(3) Systemic diseases: Some systemic diseases can also cause children's heart rate to be too fast, such as severe hypoxia, asphyxia, SLE and severe infection, which may cause ventricular tachycardia after myocardial damage.

(4) Electrolyte imbalance and acid-base imbalance: Hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, and hypomagnesemia caused by various reasons are common causes of rapid heart rate.

(5) Effects of drugs and poisons: Some drugs and toxic substances can also cause children's heart rate to be too fast, such as digitalis, various antiarrhythmic drugs, etc. There are also some drug poisoning or allergies, which can cause children's heart rate to be too fast.

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