Symptoms of heart disease in children

Cardiovascular experts say: Cardiovascular diseases in children have many different characteristics than heart disease in adults. Most cardiovascular diseases in children are congenital. Acquired heart disease is often caused by infection or inflammation. Recognizing early symptoms of cardiovascular disease in children helps parents be more active in medical examination and care and avoid possible complications.

Common cardiovascular diseases in children

Common cardiovascular diseases in children are mainly congenital heart disease, heart diseases acquired by infection or inflammation. Specifically:

• Congenital heart disease in children: congenital heart disease with no left-right flux (ventricular septal defect, atrial flux, and ductus arteriosus, ventricular atrial flux); Congenital heart disease with heart with right-to-left flow with reduced pulmonary circulation (Fallot stasis, trisomy Fallot, tricuspid valve atrophy) .
• Acquired heart disease due to infection and inflammation: Rheumatic heart disease; Kawasaki disease; Viral myocarditis .

Cardiovascular disease in children without early detection can lead to dangerous complications.

 

Cardiovascular disease in children if not detected early and treated promptly and properly can lead to dangerous complications, seriously affecting children's health and life. Early identification of symptoms of heart disease in children helps parents actively in the examination, care and prevention of cardiovascular disease for young children. Here are the common symptoms of heart disease in children:

General symptoms : Children often have coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest and concave when inhaled, often pneumonia, shortness of breath when breastfeeding, young pale, cold, sweating, purple lips , purple fingertips, toes, slow weight gain, no weight gain, weight loss, frequent night crying, poor urination .

• Congenital heart disease without purple left-right flux in children often has symptoms such as: Physical retardation, prone to bronchitis or prolonged and often recurrent pneumonia, sweating, chest pain on the left, the protruding shape is high, the heart is beating fast, the pulse is fast, the blood pressure is little changed .
• Congenital heart disease with no right and left ventricular flow with reduced pulmonary circulation is often accompanied by slow physical development symptoms compared with the same age, purple skin and mucosa, hypoxia occurs when trying strength; Clear purple in the lips, under the tongue, eye mucosa, limb head, finger toes drumstick shape .
• Acute myocardial myocarditis: The disease usually starts suddenly, appears quickly with signs of total heart failure. Children breathe fast, small fast vessels, faint heart sounds, horse sounds, can hear a soft blow at the tip of the chambers of the heart. Large liver, floating neck veins. X. chest chest see big heart, blood stasis. Ultrasound results in cardiac dilatation and decreased mobility, left ventricular function is severely reduced .

Children with cardiovascular disease often fussy, slow weight gain or no weight gain .

Recognizing the signs of heart disease in children and timely treatment will minimize the complications of harming the health and development of children, help children develop normally, improve the quality of life.