Heart palpitations can be extremely alarming and people often panic in such instances. What people need to understand is that heart palpitations could have a variety of causal factors and one would need to delve into the same before treating it. When people talk about having this disorder, what they mean is that their hearts feel like they are pounding or possibly racing. They may feel certain erratic heart movements such as abnormal heartbeat or other sensations, such as uneasiness. There could also be different possible causes from heart disease to caffeine and exercise.
Since you have noticed that your heart palpitations occur after consuming the largest meal, you might want to experiment by seeing whether cutting down on the same helps. What you could do is make dinner both lighter and healthier, such that your health improves and your heart palpitations might lessen. It might be that the two are not connected at all. However this would help in the case of general health to reduce the size of the meals since large meals could cause many other varieties of health problems such as acid reflux. Furthermore, the timing of your dinner would be important, since you should keep a gap of about three hours or more before reclining or going to bed. This allows time for digestion and can prevent heartburn and uneasiness which usually comes from reclining after a meal. While there are different heart palpitation home treatment measures, one would have to look into the causes of the same before recommending steps to combat the heart palpitation problem. At the same time, there are certain measures and home remedies which you could avail of to stem the problem. The primary thing would be to avoid stress as far as possible and to contain your anxiety since the combination of these is likely to cause further trouble. For the same, you could turn to measures such as aromatherapy combined with another alternative treatment such as yoga. Even if you do not want to look at such options, you could practice certain deep breathing exercises that you are comfortable with and use these the next time the palpitations occur. Since you know what generally brings these palpitations on, maintain records of the same and let your doctor know about details such as heart rate after dinner when these palpitations start and any experiences at the time. Your doctor would be able to guide you about further course of action and about dietary recommendations and other home care.
answered by G M