The heartbeats of the newborn

Newborn baby's heart accelerated

 Examining the child's heart rate is one of the important things that doctors depend on in assessing the heart condition of the newborn, and the heartbeat in children can accelerate naturally or because there are heart problems, and the normal heart rate for the child is 60-100 accuracy per minute and the rate increases Heart rate when playing and less when sleeping, and heart rate occurs as a result of the presence of electrical impulses as a result of blood pumping.

the reasons

 Natural causes:

1. Streptococcus tachycardia is accelerated by the increase in the speed of the sinus nodes of the heart.
2. Increased rate of metabolism in the body.
3. Having illnesses with a high temperature, feeling tired.

•  Abnormal causes:

1.  The presence of heart problems such as openings between the abdomen or between the ears. 
2. Atrial fibrillation.
3. Atrial flutter.

Symptoms

 The child does not suffer from symptoms due to the acceleration of the heartbeat that occurs due to a natural cause, but the abnormal heartbeat that occurs as a result of a problem in the heart causes symptoms according to the degree of the condition and these symptoms include:

• The presence of heart palpitations.
•  Heart rate acceleration.
•  Feeling dizzy or fainting.

Diagnosis of heart disease

It is difficult to diagnose heart diseases in children because they are similar to the symptoms of respiratory infections, so the doctor may not hear the abnormal sound of the heartbeat in some children, and regular rays do not show the heart size correctly, in which case the child must be referred to a pediatric cardiologist to rule out the presence of diseases in The heart, where it can resort to some tests that depend on the condition of the child such as ultrasound examination, measurement of the amount of oxygen in the extremities, and cardiac catheters that are used to expand the hole between the atria or expand the pulmonary artery, and can perform an image of the magnetic resonance of the heart, and do a blood test To behold Did the cause of the problem.

Heart diseases in children

 Children's heart disease is divided into two types:

• Congenital diseases: One of every hundred newborn children can develop birth defects in the heart, and congenital heart defects are one of the most important causes of child mortality in the first year of their lives, and these children are more likely to develop inflammation of the internal tissue of the heart, and congenital heart diseases It varies from one child to another, so the child can have more than one defect at the same time so the mother should see a specialist and not rely on her old experience.
•  Acquired diseases: These are diseases that children suffer after birth, as they are less common than congenital heart diseases.