An increase heartbeat can occur after eating,, if you have consumed heavy meal or foods that contains like stimulants like caffeine or sugar. Heart palpitations after eating for overweight people can also be felt during eating with racing or fluttering heartbeats, even after a meal.
To aid in the process of digestion and absorption of food, the heart needs to pump more blood after eating and to other adjoining areas, but for some this routine activity of the heart can be interpreted as palpitations. People with anorexia nervosa who stays hungry for long and suddenly consumes a huge amount of food causes heart palpitations after eating even to those with hormonal fluctuations and psychological palpitations. Sudden binging causes rapid increase in blood sugar level that leads to cardiac arrhythmia followed by a chain of reaction such as lowering of blood sugar and secretion of adrenaline that causes heart palpitations after eating.
Measuring your pulse rate for 1 full minute can determine palpitations after or even during eating, by having first and second fingers on the inside wrist of the opposite hand, about one inch below the palm. If 100 beats per minute are constant to your pulse rate, refer to your Doctor if these has been consistent.
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Magnesium supplements and eating smaller portions more regularly can give you a healthy diet thus manage the occurrence of heart palpitation after eating. However, the female populations are advised to undergo hormonal balance and tests on iron levels. To get through the day, manage it with a healthy lifestyle, nutritious and good foods plus exercise.
If there is more than enough heart palpitations after eating, consult a physician for the other underlying factors because sudden increase in blood flow and blood sugar levels are not the only factors that effects palpitations but there could damage on the heart tissue or hyperthyroid (overactive thyroid gland) as well.
