When feeding a child with congenital heart disease, the child is prone to gasping, choking or vomiting, and has to stop to rest for a while after sucking a few mouthfuls, etc. If the infant with congenital heart disease is not fed properly, the child’s condition will be affected to some extent. Breastfeeding Children with congenital heart disease under 6 months of age should be breastfed as much as possible. The procedure of breastfeeding is less than artificial feeding, the coordination of sucking, swallowing and breathing is easier for infants and children who are breastfed can get more oxygen than those who are artificially fed. In general, in children with prematurity, breastfed children are more likely to achieve a satisfactory weight than artificially fed ones. If breastfeeding is established and the child requires surgery, you can apply a breast pump to maintain the breast milk supply when the child is not around. Artificial feeding Artificial feeding may offer more flexible changes than breastfeeding, especially for children who are treated in the hospital right after birth. Manual feeding can be done by the father or other family members, making feeding more flexible. When it comes to bottle and pacifier selection, some children with prediabetes have difficulty sucking on a regular pacifier, so they need to choose a pacifier that is soft and has a large opening so that they can suck more easily. A pacifier with a small hole may make it difficult for the child to suck and may cause vomiting by swallowing air. In addition, pacifiers and bottles should be cleaned and disinfected regularly. Feeding principles 1. Whether breastfeeding or artificial feeding, it is more advantageous for children with prediabetes to take small amounts of multiple meals and feed them on demand. 2.Feed in segments, not too much at a time, and give breaks and exhaust several times in between. It is best to hold the baby and feed him in a semi-sitting position at 45 degrees, while the cyanotic baby is in a knee-chest position (knees near the chest), which helps to increase the sucking power, better digestion and makes the baby less likely to get tired. 4. Pay attention to the baby’s condition at all times while breastfeeding, and stop breastfeeding immediately if cyanosis or rapid breathing occurs. 5.After breastfeeding, pat the back to ventilate, place the baby in the right side, elevate the head of the bed and observe whether there is milk spillage. 6.Handle when spitting up: First, turn the baby’s head to the side and pat its back to let the residual milk flow out of the mouth to prevent choking and aspiration pneumonia, and clean the mouth. 7. Babies with choking phenomenon can be fed with dry cake powder to avoid milk choking into the trachea and causing suffocation. Vomiting or sweating infants can be fed by nasal feeding. 8, and normal infants synchronize the addition of complementary foods. There are generally no major contraindications in food selection for children with precocious heart disease, and the intake of high-calorie, high-protein foods is appropriate. Patients with heart failure and edema should adopt a low-salt diet and limit water intake. If you are taking diuretics and maundyphus drugs, you should supplement more foods with high potassium content. For example, bananas, citrus, etc. Children with tetralogy of Fallot have increased red blood cells and concentrated blood, which makes them prone to thrombosis, so they should be allowed to drink more water.