
Heart Skipping Beats After Meals. What Could Be The Reason?

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In many conditions, very often, it is easier to manage than find out why!
Skipped beats may have several causes - you have no stated your age, gender, personal habits or co-morbidity, family history and so on...
On getting up and standing, the heart has to pump more (achieved by volume or rate) – for it has to work against gravity / pooling(venous) occurs below and constriction(arterial) above...
After a meal, again the work is increased / more blood to intestine for digestion...
The activity may simply be drawing the attention / not causing it?
Anaemia / Anxiety / Alcohol / Thyroid / Tobacco (smoking) / Caffeine (too much coffee, cola) / Medicines like Phenylephrine used for ‘cold’; Salbutamol used for asthma / Illicit ‘drugs’ like Amphetamine are notorious to cause abnormal beats.... At times, abnormal nerve paths in the heart (bypass tracts) are responsible!
THE FIRST STEP IS TO SEE A CARDIOLOGIST / Irregular heart beats need to be DOCUMENTED by ElectroCardioGram (EKG). Standard EKG records the electrical activity of the heart, for a few seconds. It can detect the arrhythmia occurring during that time only. If the episode occurs randomly or precipitated by a specific activity like exercise, one needs Holter or event monitor. Holter records for days; Event monitor for weeks / Holter records continuously / Event monitor only at certain times .
ECHOcardiogram / TMT (Treadmill exercise ECG) / LABORATORY work-up – may all be necessary for further assessment and assistance.
The treating doctor may suggest them depending on need, based on his assessment of the situation.
Take care
Wishing speedy recovery
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Potassium, magnesium, calcium, vitamin D levels can easily be checked...
But for anxiety, your personal history is excellent...
Regards...


Arrhythmia is an electrical problem - impulse arising from unusual place or travelling in anomalous tracts. Mechanical problems may lead to electrical problems and the converse can also happen...

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