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Rapid heart beat my daughter, who is 11 years old, has occasional dramatic increases in her heart rate (once or twice a week). i taught her how to count her beats per minute and today her pulse jumped to 240 for about 5 minutes (per her account). her norm
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Your : Your description of her symptoms is very alarming. This is clearly not a normal finding. She needs to see her pediatrician or family physician soon. They may refer her to a pediatric cardiologist. Please don't put this off.
Answered 6/4/2019
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Needs workup: That's definitely abnormal and potentially dangerous. Get her seen, please. She likely has supraventricular tachycardia, but could have a more ominous condition, wolfe-parkinson-white syndrome which is associated with sudden death. That aside, if she has heart rates of 240, she could pass out, fall down, and hurt herself.
Answered 2/2/2014
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