September 29 is World Heart Day. Congenital heart disease is the main heart disease in childhood. Timely diagnosis is crucial for early treatment and reduction of complications. What are the early symptoms of congenital heart disease in children? The baby has a heart problem. What should parents do?
Congenital heart disease is common in children. Simple congenital heart disease includes atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus and other diseases. Complex congenital heart disease, including diseases such as double outlet of right ventricle and tetralogy of Fallot. According to the incidence rate of congenital heart disease, simple congenital heart disease accounts for the majority, and most simple congenital heart disease has good treatment effect.
Zhou Gengxu, director of pediatric surgery of the Department of Pediatric Medicine of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, said: It is not to say that when you hear of a heart attack, you will have no way to live, including some small atrial defects and small patent ductus arteriosus. During the follow-up period, the child survived with such a little disease, ate, played and vaccinated like other children, and had no worries at all. But remember to let a cardiologist see the child regularly. Generally, seeing the child twice a year will not delay the child.
Most children with congenital heart disease
The prognosis is good
The main method of diagnosing congenital heart disease is to do cardiac color Doppler examination. In order to detect congenital heart disease at an early stage, the heart development is basically mature after 24 weeks of pregnancy, and the fetal heart development can be judged by color Doppler ultrasound.
Zhou Gengxu, director of pediatric surgery of the Department of Pediatric Medicine of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, said that there are only a few specific diseases, such as left heart dysplasia, or severe pulmonary valve stenosis, and severe aortic valve stenosis. These are the only cases in which we need to pay special attention to children's heart. Most (fetuses) can be born at full term, and most of the children with congenital heart disease can also obtain a very good quality of life after treatment.
Experts said that according to current research, the causes of congenital heart disease mainly include environmental factors around the fetus, such as virus infection of the fetus, oppression of the fetus, metabolic diseases such as nutritional disorders or vitamin deficiency in the mother, smoking and drinking in the mother, etc. In addition, after birth, the child is in a state of hypoxia for a long time, which makes it difficult to close the arterial catheter, which is also an important reason for the high incidence of congenital heart disease.
