How to tell if you have a normal heart rate

Check how the heart beats, it is necessary, and in diseases and in training.

How to measure the pulse

Pulse - a blow that makes the heart per minute.

View directly on the heart, we can not, unless you carry out the operation. Therefore, when measuring the pulse use reduction of arterial walls: they also vibrate when the heart pumps blood into them.

To check your pulse rate, place the fingertips to the place where the artery passes, and press them to feel the tremors. Consider beats in one minute. This will be a pulse.

Places where arteries are close to the skin:

But in most cases it's best to test the pulse at the wrist and neck: they can feel the beating of almost everything, not just physicians, accustomed to palpate patients. The children are well defined by the pulse of the femoral artery in newborns can follow the pulsation of the large fontanelle.

On the neck need to be careful. If too hard to press the artery, it can make your head spin, so to measure the pulse on the neck better sitting or lying down and take it easy.

What should be the normal pulse

Pulse is still not constant, so we can not tell the exact number of beats that meets the norm. You can only specify a range. The following table shows the broad value of the minimum to the maximum.

What does it mean if the pulse outside the norm

On the pulse affects both the state of the organism and the environment. The heart beats more often in hot weather, after exercise, during times of stress or when you are standing. On the pulse impact of the disease and some drugs: they can either slow it down or speed up.

If you occasionally feel a heart It began to beat more or less frequently for no apparent reason, if there is a feeling of weakness or dizziness, seek medical attention. Perhaps this is the symptoms.