A newborn just 10 days old, born as the first child, weighed 3.5kg and had good growth and development. However, on the second day after birth, the child occasionally appeared purple around the mouth, the parents did not pay attention to it, when the condition further deteriorated, only to come to the hospital, the examination is congenital heart disease, ventricular septal defect, the parents heard, at that time, full of tears. Why would a child get congenital heart disease? In fact, congenital heart disease is a more common childhood heart disease, the incidence of congenital heart disease in newborn infants in China is not low, according to expert statistics, the incidence of congenital heart disease in China accounts for about 5%, most of the children with congenital heart disease, if detected early, can be treated early, according to the condition of a reasonable choice of timing of surgery, timely surgery is expected to be completely cured. It does not affect the normal learning and growth of the child. If the disease is not detected in time, the treatment may be delayed, causing some complications and leading to death. How can the disease be detected in the early stages? It requires further analysis by the doctor according to the child’s symptoms, together with various tests, to make a clear diagnosis. The index data of pregnant women during physical examination or ultrasound can be used as a basis for judgment, but the disease is less found in the fetal stage, and some babies can be found at birth, such as newborn babies with shortness of breath and heart failure. However, if the child usually has no symptoms, normal growth and development, and a lot of activity, like normal children, it is only easy to be found to have congenital heart disease when the doctor finds a heart murmur during physical examination during a visit for cold or respiratory infection. For this situation, as parents can learn from the following points whether the child has congenital heart disease. 1. Frequent colds: Children are more prone to colds than other children, and if they don’t pay attention to them, they will have fever, cough and phlegm after almost 10 to 20 days. This is mainly due to some specialized pathophysiological processes, such as ventricular septal defect and atrial septal defect, which cause the blood that should be in the body circulation to flow into the lung circulation. In short, there is more blood in the lungs, like a culture medium, where bacteria and viruses are more likely to grow leading to colds or aggravate to pneumonia. 2, slow growth and development: watching children of the same age are growing taller and taller, the child’s weight is always not growing, and the size is low. This is mainly due to the slow growth and development of children with congenital heart disease, just like flowers do not get sunlight, rainwater irrigation, congenital heart disease children due to the pathological blood circulation, can not completely give nutrients to the body caused by. 3, the lips of the mouth purple: the child’s lips always look purple purple, how to look abnormal, this is also due to some complex malformations of congenital heart disease, such as: Farrer’s tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of the great arteries, single ventricle, etc., some blood does not go inside the lungs for oxygenation, no oxygen blood color is black, so the most can show the blood color of the lips look purple purple. 4, inexplicable fainting, gasping for air: children inexplicably faint, slight activity will gasp for air, which is also mainly caused by some complex malformations of congenital heart disease, due to the blood can not be perfused into the brain, as well as with the growth of age, the need for more and more oxygen, but itself can not meet, it will cause such and such symptoms. If your child has such a problem, it is important to seek early medical attention, because some congenital heart disease exists the best time to treat, if you miss it, then the effectiveness of treatment, the effectiveness of surgery will also decline with it. But here’s wishing all the children in the world are happy and healthy!