Aug 5, 2008

How the early detection of children with congenital heart disease

Most of the development of children with congenital heart disease than children the same age, obviously slow, slow weight gain, thin build, easy to sweat, if ruled out the lack of nutrition or rickets, the most likely cause of congenital heart disease is heart failure and cardiac insufficiency .

Congenital heart disease in children is harmful to health and even lives of a serious illness, should be early detection.

Common in children with congenital heart disease ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defects and deformities, such as aorta.

How early detection, diagnosis of children with congenital heart disease, as soon as possible to determine the timing and mode of operation is essential. However, many children with congenital heart disease after childbirth are generally "normal", doctors have found no abnormalities, but in subsequent medical examination or suffering from other diseases were found only occasionally. In fact, if parents, teachers usually can be carefully observed the child's daily activities, it is completely possible early discovery, early treatment.
How the early detection of children with congenital heart disease


First, the majority of children with congenital heart disease than the development of the same age children obviously slow, slow weight gain, thin build, easy to sweat, if ruled out the lack of nutrition or rickets, the most likely cause of congenital heart disease is heart failure and heart Insufficiency.

Second, shortness of breath, Bieqi, breastfeeding is often choking, antifeedant phenomenon occurred, the left side of his chest before the district may have heart uplift, these are the performance of heart failure.

Third, the children of low resistance, often attack the upper respiratory tract infection is repeated, serious illness can occur when the wheezing, hoarse voice, and so on, these is not an ordinary flu caused by, but according to conventional use in the treatment of difficult Sikang ganmao effective.

Fourth, some of the older children with easy fatigue, endurance, both physical difference. Some children can have serious lip cyanosis, edema, and so on.

When parents found any of these symptoms and long-term improvement, should attach great importance to the timely to do with children to the hospital X-ray, electrocardiogram, echocardiography and cardiac catheterization imaging, and other checks to early discovery, early diagnosis And treated early.

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