Sunday, March 16, 2008

What are symptoms of congenital heart disease

Congenital heart disease (CHD) There are many types of performance of various types of congenital heart disease severity of the symptoms can be different procedures.
However, the following symptoms in children appear to consider whether there is a congenital heart disease, such as irritability, crying field high Tsim, infants, suck weakness, shortness of breath, crying sound or activities after easily asthma, and purple lips snow. If a cold, a slight fever, cough symptoms less blatant cases, the early performance of dyspnea on the obvious. Bigger children will tell chest tightness, the former heart pain, palpitation, particularly in the activities, these symptoms more obvious. Further development of illness, particularly those children with cyanotic congenital heart, fingernails, lips and cheek can be dark purple, medically known as "cyanotic" or "cyanosis." Some children may also appear lower extremity edema. Pestle-Zhizhi (ie hand or toe end of the soft tissue hypertrophy hyperplasia, a chrysotoxum brief), are nail aspect Drive transition such as parrot's beak-shaped bends, which are due to chronic hypoxia caused by. Cyanotic congenital heart disease often several special gestures: holding period when the infant does not straighten your legs, and Hei buckling in the abdomen adults, sat at the foot dormitory bench-hi level, standing at the bend of the lower limbs to maintain posture. Older children walk, take some time to squat knees close to the chest short break, medicine called "Dunju" phenomenon.
This posture can increase the cycle of resistance, right-to-left shunt to reduce, increase vital capacity, will help to lighten the burden of heart and improve hypoxic conditions. Children suffering from congenital heart disease usually prone to recurrent respiratory tract infection, growth retardation. Some have physical deformities or other parts of the smart growth retardation.
Under normal circumstances, those with severe punishment of children with congenital heart disease in infants (less than 1 year) can be shown symptoms, if the three-year-old has not yet shown any symptoms, then even if there are congenital heart disease, is minimal.
Whatever first, in the hospital after doctors go detailed inspection, but also including chest X-ray, ECG, echocardiography, and other auxiliary examination, the diagnosis can be made clear.

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