Sinus tachycardia: symptoms, causes and treatments

Sinus tachycardia is simply an increase in extemporaneous heartbeat, often due to causes that can easily be traced back to emotional change or physical exertion . It is called " sinus " because it involves the beat imposed by the atrial sinus node.

When from an episodic phenomenon it starts to become a recurrent symptom or if the beats increase to more than 180 per minute it is good to undergo serious and scrupulous tests, since the cause could be pathological in nature.

Hyperthyroidism, anemia, pulmonary embolism, ischemia and heart failure can be causes to be ascertained quickly.

Causes of sinus tachycardia

Remaining in a field of naturopathic competence, we examine cases of physiological heartbeat elevation and therefore the possible causes of tachycardia, which we can learn to manage with simple and completely natural remedies.

Sinus tachycardia and sport

When we practice a sport, from simple amateurs without not much training, the first effect we feel is shortness of breath, wheezing and the so-called " heart in the throat ". Try going to the pool after a long break of inactivity and try your hand at one or two tanks: it will seem to die caught by a heart attack!

In reality, the exercise we underwent has required an increase in oxygen not only for breathing modified by the aquatic environment, but also for the muscles that, urged on by unusual movements, require greater spraying and oxygenation.

The same if we try our hand at running : the first few times we will have very high pulse, rapid breathing and a " thousand heart". With a constant and controlled training, the heart rate will vary as we will have trained the heart muscle and the tachycardia effect will be modulated accordingly.

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Anxiety and Stress and sinus tachycardia

Anxiety and stress are two factors of modern times that often catch us off guard and can change our emotional state so quickly that they affect the heart's rhythm and induce an uncontrolled and uncontrollable increase of beat there and then, so we feel a sensation heart-pounding that conditions and harnesses us.

Heart in throat, flushing in the face, out-of-control sweating, confused thinking, breathless breathing . If the "symptoms" then overwhelm us and we think we are about to be taken ill, the reaction gets worse. Our emotional sphere is sometimes subtle and does not defend us, rather it amplifies stressful situations and makes us even more vulnerable.

It is appropriate to say that in these situations we must learn to breathe ! Those who are aware of being sensitive to uncontrolled emotional reactions should start to approach yoga, to study how to use breathing to govern their emotions .

There are many classes of pranayama and pratyahara that teach how to manage respiratory flow, heart rate, positive visualizations to get better with yourself and with others.

Fever and sinus tachycardia

When our body temperature increases for a feverish state, it can happen that even our heartbeat alters to the point of perceiving its variation.

Our body in these cases is often counteracting an infection and inflammation, so it is striving on a physiological level to defend us from pathogenic attacks and also the heart brings more oxygen to the various districts involved, with a surmenage that can induce a state tachycardia.

In these cases you just have to wait and let the immune system fight its battle, without anxiety: we are not going to have a heart attack!

Cures and remedies for sinus tachycardia

We have already mentioned before how we can handle tachycardia episodes that are not worrying. We better investigate some remedies, especially in the case of sports effort and anxiety and stress.

In sports it is good to plan workouts accurately, never overdo the first approaches and if the intention is to do superheroes in a single performance, better let it go: it would be a useless stress to which you subject your physique, with effects certainly harmful.
The management of stress and anxiety must be a conscious and targeted choice and, as already mentioned , breathing is the tool with which to control our reactions . Many of us do not know how to breathe, despite being the first activity of our life and one of the last to our death. There are many courses that come from yoga that teach us to breathe properly and even use our breath to channel our energies and enhance our activities. Some advanced stages of yoga such as the aforementioned pranayama and pratyahara are very valid and effective in freeing us from the slavery of debilitating emotional states. It is essential to find good teachers and avoid the charlatans. Contact associations with established backgrounds that will advise specialized tutors.

Hawthorn for the treatment of sinus tachycardia

You cannot miss a help from the pharmacy of nature that in case of "surprise effect" allows us to re-establish the right balance. It is the case of the hawthorn, a precious remedy for calming anxiety attacks, arrhythmias and tachycardias .

Hawthorn, thanks to vitexin, has a soothing and sedative effect, very useful in case of insomnia. The gemmoderivato is the most suitable solution, since it is a ready-to-use glycerine macerate: 30 drops in a little water 3 times a day.

The only downside : lower the pressure . So be careful for those who suffer from sinus tachycardia and have low blood pressure.