Is it necessary for babies to have a cardiac ultrasound?

When babies are young, they are very likely to suffer from this type of heart disease. There are many types of heart diseases in babies. If you don't pay attention to the maintenance of the baby's heart, the chance of the baby suffering from heart disease is somewhat high. In this case, many parents choose to do color Doppler ultrasound examinations for their children, but they are worried that the children are still too young. If the child does not have heart disease, but does the color Doppler ultrasound examination, they are afraid that the child's body will be affected. So, should babies do heart color Doppler ultrasound examinations?

Strong echoes in the fetal ventricles are an ultrasound manifestation, not a heart malformation, nor an ultrasound diagnosis of fetal heart abnormalities. Strong echoes in the heart have no important clinical significance for most fetuses. The baby is now 25 days old. As long as he has no discomfort symptoms: cyanosis, bruising, crying, etc., there is no need to do any ultrasound examination. When listening to the baby's heart with a stethoscope, you may hear some murmurs, which are mostly normal physiological conditions. It will disappear after a while. Don't be too nervous. The key at present is breastfeeding and prevention of common diseases such as colds and diarrhea.

Purpose of color Doppler ultrasound:

Fetal cardiac color Doppler ultrasound is an instrument that can help people understand the dynamic intracardiac structure, heart beats and blood flow of the fetus. It is a detection method that causes less damage to the human body.

The main purpose of the examination is to check whether there are any abnormalities in the morphology of the heart and whether the heart function is normal. It is the preferred examination method especially for congenital heart disease. Cardiac color ultrasound is the only instrument that does no harm to the human body and can dynamically display the structure of the heart cavity, heart beats and blood flow. The heart probe is like the lens of a camera. Place the probe in front of the chest and move it back and forth. As the probe rotates, the various structures of the heart are clearly displayed on the screen.

Color Doppler ultrasound examinations should be performed on infants when necessary, but it is necessary to see if the child has any abnormalities. If the child is found to have heart abnormalities, these treatment methods must be used to examine the child so that the child's heart disease can be diagnosed as soon as possible, so that the child's heart disease can be treated in time.