Strep Throat infection and increased heart rate

[risalynn04]

I had strep throat which started on Sunday. I was in bed all day cuz i felt horrible couldn't swallow white stuff all over tonsils, severe body aches, fever off and on(never higher than 102) I kept taking my BP and my pulse was at rest 124 and when i was up walkin around it was 155. i started on antibiotics right away but my pulse was still elevated on Monday when i went to the DR ( had no fever by monday). My question is can an infection like strep cause your heart rate to elevate  due to the body working extra hard to help fight off the infection? I should also mention that even though my HR was high it didn't feel like it was racing

[kinorguitar]

My wife had almost exactly the same symptoms.   She got strep and the clinic was concerned that here heart rate was 150-160 bpm.  Her resting heart rate was 120-130 bpm.  She peaked a fever at 105 deg.  She also has a lot of anxiety.  We got put onto penicillin and monitored the heart rate with a fitbit.  We found that drinking coconut water lowered the heart rate pretty well, but it was still consistently above 110 bpm through the night.  About 4 hours after the second dose of penicillin here heart rate returned to about 70-80 resting heart rate.

[risalynn04]

probably should have also mentioned that I have anxiety and freak out bout everything

[avana]

I know fever will cause your pulse to go up when your body is fighting an infection.  If it continues I would not hesitate to go get an EKG from your family Dr. to make sure that it is not something else. A pulse rate should not really be above 100.