Dear Sir,
I totally understand your concerns about your daughter's health.
A pulse of 145 beats per minute is considered a
tachycardia and hence it is not a normal finding especially that your daughter is athletic where we expect her pulse to be at the lower edge of the normal.
Hence further evaluation is needed in order to determine the best treatment.
1- Ask your daughter about caffeine intake and
smoking, since both are associated with tachycradia and should be stopped in case they are being used.
2- an electrocardiogram EKG is needed to determine the exact type of tachyarrythmia that she has. if the EKG finding is normal, a 24 hours holter may be ordered to detect any arrythmia during a whole 24 hours.
3- 2 blood tests are important in this case : CBCD this is important to determineif your patient is anemic, especially that she s a female she s at a higher risk of
anemia because of her menses and it will be wise to control her menses with medications such as OCP's in order to decrease the
excessive menstrual bleeding if it is the case of your daughter and also to take oral iron in case of anemia in order to replenish her system with iron to produce red blood cells. The other test is
TSH in order to detect any
thyroid function problem because hyperthyrodism is associated with
increased heart rate.
Based on this evaluation treatment can be offered based on the result
Best regards