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Pvc's when unwell?

Hello,
Every time I get a cold, or a virus, or flu, or run down... I get more PVC's than normal. Why?! And anyone else in the same boat?
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Yes.  If I have the flu I will lie there with ectopics going on a lot of the time.  My current spate of ectopics this last week I'm wondering is due to some milder infection.  
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Of course.  The heart rate is directly related to sickness and health.  It is affected by fever--the normal accompaniment to many illnesses--and by stresses of all kinds.

When we are sick, the functioning of most of the organs of our body--lungs, kidneys, gut, for example--are affected.  The heart is an organ.  It is affected by all those changes, too.

It's normal.
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