Pounding heart is also known as heart racing or heart palpitations.



There are several reasons for pounding heart. It may occur due to exercise or high level of physical activity. Pounding heart is abnormal sensation of your heart beats that you can almost feel occurring. This might be accompanied by shortness of breath, anxiety, etc.





Pounding heart is common in people who are in stressful jobs. It is also an acute stress reaction.  Pounding heart might be faster than the normal heart rate or of the same heart rate as usual.

Though all types of heart pounding is not serious it depends if you have a normal or an abnormal heart rhythm. An abnormal heart rhythm represents that there is already heart disease known to the person or else there is a possibility of a heart disease.



Abnormal heart pounding could also be because of an abnormal heart valve.

Some other reasons for heart pounding are panic attacks, which leave people breathless as well as extra stress causes palpitations. Such panic attacks are quite rare therefore, heart pounding along with panic attack, is normal to given situation.

During palpitations pulse rate depends on the pounding of heart, there is a throbbing sensation of the heart beats in throat, chest as well as in the neck. For palpitations occurring very rarely, it is the best to ignore them.





For people who get anxiety should try different relaxing techniques like meditation and yoga. These techniques have often helped ease our heart pounding. If the occurrences of pounding start appearing often, then as a part of taking care of yourself you can maintain a log where you can record the occurrences and time for what the palpitations last. This will be helpful for the doctor to diagnose the disease.

People with hypoglycemia also get palpitations.



Hypoglycemia means inability of the body to properly handle the high consumption of sugar. Reduction in quantities of sugar consumed will help reduce heart pounding to quite some extent. There are other symptoms related to hypoglycemia, these symptoms are fatigue, insomnia, headaches, depression, etc.

In case you have not had water for quite some time, it would be better to do if you are getting palpitations, the reason being even dehydration causes heart pounding.

There are several reasons for heart pounding, though most of the times it might be harmless, regular occurrences should not be ignored and proper check up should be done if there is chest pain associated with heart pounding, it might be a sign of heart illness.

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