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What Causes Slow Resting Heart Rate In An Infant?

Hello. I recently gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He s perfect but I am really concerned that he has a slow resting heart rate it could go all the way to 65bpm when sleeping.. When he is up it goes up to 110. He was in the nicu for about 3 days. They were monitoring his heart and they did a EKG on him and said his heart rhythm was normal so they decided to discharged him with no diagnosis. I am so concerned i don t know if to take him to another hospital for a second opinion or to just let it go. He was put on antibiotics due to an infection I had. I m not sure if that s what might have cause it to slow down or what.Could it have been the antibiotics?
Wed, 28 Jan 2015
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Hi,
Thankyou for your quiry.
Brief...He needs to be evaluated throughly for different factors causing slow heart rate.
Detailed answer...Since normal heart rate in new born is 125 to 150 and below that heart rate may need throughly for different factors.For example..Congenital systemic lupus erythromatosus,cardiomyopathy,some medicines used by mother like tetracycline,and some genetic problem like long QT syndrome.For that he needs second opinion by cardiologist.
Hopefully my answer is helpfull.
Regards,
Dr.Maheshwari
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What Causes Slow Resting Heart Rate In An Infant?

Hi, Thankyou for your quiry. Brief...He needs to be evaluated throughly for different factors causing slow heart rate. Detailed answer...Since normal heart rate in new born is 125 to 150 and below that heart rate may need throughly for different factors.For example..Congenital systemic lupus erythromatosus,cardiomyopathy,some medicines used by mother like tetracycline,and some genetic problem like long QT syndrome.For that he needs second opinion by cardiologist. Hopefully my answer is helpfull. Regards, Dr.Maheshwari