Pulse characterizes the number of blows of heart in a minute. Each person has the rhythm, but, nevertheless, there are lower and top borders within which pulse is considered normal.
The warm rhythm or pulse indicates the number of blows of heart in a minute. For each child the rhythm of heart is individual. It depends on the sizes of a body, physical health, on the taken drugs, air temperature and even on that, you sit or stand. Pulse is also influenced by emotions as in stressful situations and at danger the warm rhythm accelerates.
Pulse needs to be measured on two hands. The asymmetry of pulse testifies to a heart disease.
Normal pulse for children up to 15 years
Newborn children have a pulse rate quite high - 140-160 beats per minute, aged from 1 up to 2 years norm of a warm rhythm - 110-120 blows. For children aged from 2 up to 5 years the pulse rate at rest is considered normal from 86 to 112 beats per minute, and aged from 5 up to 15 years this indicator is equal to 70-100 beats per minute. At the top value the load of heart and other bodies sharply raises. The teenagers who are actively doing sports and having excellent physical shape at rest can observe decrease in a rhythm of heart to 40 beats per minute. And it is considered norm option too. For calculation of the maximum allowed pulse the child has two formulas: 220 - age, that is for the child of 15 years it: 220-15=205; ili206.9 - (0.67 x age), that is for the child of 15 years it: 0.67 x 15 = 10.5, and 206.9 - 10.5 = 196.4. The second formula from the medical point of view is more exact, but it is easier to remember the first. Calculation of the maximum allowed rhythm shows what pulse is critical for an organism and leads to cardiac arrest. That is for the child of 15 years the indicator is equal to 196.4 beats per minute. It is necessary to recognize that pulse seldom reaches limit and these data rather of a teoretichna.
If the child suffers from increase in arterial blood pressure, pulse needs to be measured on an ankle.
As it is correct to measure pulse
There are several ways of measurement of pulse - on a wrist, on a neck, in a groin and on an ankle where there pass the main large arteries. The most widespread way of measurement - on a wrist. To receive exact result, apply a finger to wrist inside where veins lie, press a little and count the number of blows within 60 seconds. It is also possible to measure pulse within 15 seconds, having increased the received number of blows by 4, and within 10 seconds, having increased by 6, but most of doctors recommends to measure indicators during a full minute cycle. Before measurement of pulse it is desirable for the child is in a sitting position at least within 10 minutes, children actively move and pulse can become more frequent, but in 10 minutes it is usually restored.