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What Can Cause Excessive Heart Rate In Teenager?

Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here...I have an 18year old son who is not overweight but when he does any form of excercise his heart rate increases rapidly. eg he rode my excercise bike quite swifly for 3 minutes and his heart rate went up to 200 is this an issue. This is not the first time this has happened.
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I would explain that it is quite normal to have such a heart rate at his age, during physical activity or emotional stress.

Anyway, I would recommend consulting with his attending physician for a physical exam, a resting ECG and thyroid hormone levels, coupled with other blood lab tests (complete blood count, PCR, ESR), just to be sure that everything is OK.

Performing regular physical activity will help reduce his palpitations and tachycardia during physical activity.

Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
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What Can Cause Excessive Heart Rate In Teenager?

Hi, I would explain that it is quite normal to have such a heart rate at his age, during physical activity or emotional stress. Anyway, I would recommend consulting with his attending physician for a physical exam, a resting ECG and thyroid hormone levels, coupled with other blood lab tests (complete blood count, PCR, ESR), just to be sure that everything is OK. Performing regular physical activity will help reduce his palpitations and tachycardia during physical activity. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.