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It depends.

Children often have second to second variations in their heartbeats due to respiratory affects on the centers that control heart rate. Sinus arrythmia is an example of this normal physiologic "irregular heart rate".

There certainly are many much more rare and dangerous causes of an irregular heart rate but in an asymptomatic 8 year old these are extremely unlikely. I would contact your pediatrician and discuss with him/her exactly what you mean by "irregular heart rate".

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15y ago

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