Myocarditis in children is often caused by infections such as coxsackie virus and influenza virus, which cause an inflammatory response in the myocardium, and patients may present with panic, chest tightness, and chest pain. In recurrent episodes, it is usually necessary to solve the causes of recurrence, general treatment, and drug treatment.
1. Solve the causes of recurrence: most of the children’s myocarditis recurrence due to cold, overwork, low immunity, etc. Therefore, we need to prevent cold and flu, avoid overwork, reasonable work and rest, diet and balanced nutrition, appropriate exercise to enhance resistance, which can reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
2. General treatment: emphasize bed rest, usually 3-4 weeks, ensure sleep, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption.
3. Drug therapy: according to different types of pathogenic bacteria, choose penicillin, azithromycin, ribavirin and other anti-infective treatment, vitamin C, coenzyme Q10, fructose, etc. to improve myocardial metabolism, injections of gammaglobulin, through the role of immune regulation to reduce the damage of cardiomyocytes, the condition of severe cases, if necessary, use of glucocorticosteroids such as prednisone treatment.
If children’s myocarditis recurrence, it is recommended that patients go to the hospital cardiology department to prevent the disease foreword aggravation, triggering heart failure, arrhythmia and other possibilities, timely compliance with the doctor’s instructions for treatment.