Hi, my 8 yr old screamed ahh, my heart! Then he came running to me saying his heart hurt and it stopped beeping. I asked what it felt like and he said, like a heart attack I asked him to explain what he felt, he said it felt like his heart started beeping fast the stopped and that s when it started hurting. It lasted for a couple of mins. This has happened about 3 times already. He seems fine right now.
Thank you for posting your question. Awareness of ones own heart beats is known as palpitations. There are certain cardiac and non-cardiac causes of this which also includes ingestion of certain things like excessive tea/coffee or certain Chat Doctor. However, it is quite unlikely that an 8 yr old would appreciate his own heart rate, let alone attributing chest pain to his heart. Hence, the way the symptoms are being described by your son, it is likely that he is enacting something that he has seen or heard somewhere. However, not to take his symptoms lightly, I would suggest you keep a watch on his symptoms and look for associated changes like sudden loss of color from his face, vomiting, radiation of pain to any other site, lethargy or irritability, decreased urine output etc. Apart from this acidity or heart burn could also cause symptoms similar to chest pain. In this case decreasing intake of spicy food, having cold milk or ice cream, or