The 8-month-old Mengmeng had a cold, the same as before, runny nose, cough, fever, mom and dad went to the pharmacy to buy cold medicine for Mengmeng to eat a few days to get better, but the face is always white, slightly moving shortness of breath, do not like to eat milk, depressed, mom and dad anxious, rushed to the hospital, the doctor carefully examined and told Mengmeng parents that the baby has viral myocarditis, need to be hospitalized immediately. Mengmeng’s parents felt very strange, why
The parents are wondering why a small cold would turn into viral myocarditis?
Viral myocarditis can be caused by a variety of viral infections, among which coxsackievirus type B is the most common, and is initially similar to an upper respiratory tract infection or intestinal infection, which we usually think of as a cold or diarrhea. Generally after 7-10 days, chest tightness, weakness, easy sweating, depression or restlessness, shortness of breath will appear, and some children with serious illness may even have repeated syncope and sudden death, while light viral myocarditis often has no obvious symptoms, and small babies will not tell the symptoms, which brings some trouble to early detection and diagnosis. Therefore, when your baby has chest tightness, weakness, easy sweating, depression or irritability, shortness of breath and other symptoms after a cold, you must go to the hospital as soon as possible, so that the doctor can do electrocardiogram, cardiac ultrasound, cardiac enzymes, chest X-ray and other tests to determine whether your child has viral myocarditis.