What are the symptoms of pediatric congenital heart disease?

  Congenital heart disease is a common and frequent disease among infants and young children, and there are about 100,000 or more newborns with congenital heart disease in mainland China every year. In milder cases, the disease can heal on its own, but in more severe cases, it may threaten the baby’s life. However, nowadays, with the help of advanced medical technology, most children can lead a normal or near-normal life with timely and standardized surgical treatment, without much impact on their growth and development as well as their fertility in adulthood. Therefore, early detection, diagnosis and treatment are the keys to reduce the natural mortality of the disease. So, how can we identify the symptoms of precocious heart disease in babies?  1, frequent colds children are more prone to colds than other children, if not pay attention to almost after a dozen or twenty days will have a fever, cough, cough phlegm, which is mainly due to some in the professional very strong pathophysiological processes, such as: ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, etc. caused by the blood that should have been in the body circulation into the pulmonary circulation. In short, there is more blood in the lungs, like a culture medium, where bacteria and viruses are more likely to grow and cause 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, the size is also low. This is mainly due to the slow growth of children with congenital heart disease, just like flowers do not get sunlight and rainwater irrigation, children with congenital heart disease can not completely give nutrients to the organism due to the pathological blood circulation.  3, the baby’s abnormal performance infants often make some puzzling behavior, such as constantly crying, inexplicable restlessness, and it is difficult to be “pacified” down. Don’t think of these behaviors as a sign of a possible heart problem.  In addition, the infant in a quiet state, breathing coarse, breathing faster, up to 40-60 times per minute, feeding difficulties or infants refuse to eat, choking, often appear to eat stop, shortness of breath, pale, blue around the mouth, breath-holding, etc., especially in crying and eating milk when the above symptoms are more serious, parents must pay attention to.  4, cyanosis cyanosis is a prominent manifestation of cyanotic congenital heart disease (such as large-vessel dislocation, tetralogy of Fallot, etc.). It can persist after birth, or gradually become obvious three to four months after birth, and is most obvious in the mouth and lips, finger (toe) nail bed and nose tip. The latent cyanotic heart disease (such as ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, arteriovenous ductus arteriosus) usually does not have cyanosis, but only appears when activity, crying, breath-holding or pneumonia, and persistent cyanosis can appear when pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure occur in late stages.  5, squatting infancy when holding legs not straight, but like to bend in the adult’s abdomen, sitting like to lift the feet to the stool surface, when standing lower limbs to maintain a bent posture. When the child grows up and starts to walk, often after walking a few steps, he likes to squat and rest; or often take a squatting position and talk to children, this is because the squatting process makes the body circulatory resistance higher, promoting the increase of venous blood back to the heart and oxygenation, in order to improve the symptoms of hypoxia.  6, inexplicable fainting children inexplicable fainting, slight activity will be a big gasp, often occur in nursing, crying, defecation due to lack of oxygen, infant precocious baby sudden respiratory distress, cyanosis aggravated, unconsciousness and even cramps.  This is also mainly caused by the complex malformation of some congenital heart disease, due to the blood can not be perfused in the brain, as well as with the growth of age, the need for more and more oxygen, but their own disease can not meet, it will cause such and such symptoms.  7, pestle finger (toe) infant precocious heart disease symptoms pestle finger (toe) often appear in the Farrer tetralogy of Fallot, because the baby long-term oxygen deprivation, finger (toe) end of the soft tissue hyperplasia, so that the fingers, toes are drumstick-like changes, the clinical tendency will appear after 2 to 3 years of age infants.  If your child has such a problem, it is important to seek medical attention early, because some congenital heart disease exists the best time to treat, if you miss it, then the treatment effect, the effect of surgery will also decline with. But here’s wishing all the children in the world are happy and healthy! Do not get heart disease.