How to diagnose congenital heart disease?

Expectant mothers pay special attention to their behavior during pregnancy to ensure that the baby is born healthy. However, sometimes due to genetics or other reasons, young children may have some congenital diseases, such as congenital heart disease, which we will introduce today. This is a condition that is very troubling for expectant mothers, because if it is not discovered and treated early, it may lead to the death of the child. So, how to diagnose congenital heart disease?

The symptoms and manifestations of congenital heart disease include the following:

1. Shortness of breath: In the neonatal or infant period, the child is found to be eager for food due to hunger, but is found to have weak sucking and shallow breathing. He gives up milk and gasps for breath before finishing sucking milk due to shortness of breath. He stops after taking a few sips, feels very tired, and sweats profusely.

2. Recurrent respiratory tract infections or pneumonia: This is the most common symptom and cause of heart murmurs when seeking medical attention. Due to lung congestion, mild respiratory tract infections can easily cause bronchopneumonia, resulting in choking, coughing, and rapid breathing. Some babies have hoarse voices when crying, and even have symptoms such as heart failure.

3. Delayed growth and development: Due to insufficient systemic circulation flow and blood oxygen supply, the growth and development is slower than that of children of the same age, and the weight lag is more obvious than the height lag.

4. Edema: When a child with congenital heart disease is found to have the above symptoms and manifestations, if oliguria and pitting edema in the lower limbs are found, it means that the child's function can no longer compensate and has caused heart failure. This is a very important warning!

5. Cyanosis: Generally, this group of diseases will not cause cyanosis. However, if not treated in time, it will cause complications of pulmonary hypertension and cause blood flow to be shunted from the right heart to the left heart, which may cause cyanosis, also indicating that the opportunity for treatment has been lost.

The diagnosis is confirmed by means of electrocardiogram, chest X-ray, cardiac color ultrasound examination, etc., and different treatment methods are adopted.

If your child has any of the above symptoms, please take your child to the hospital for examination in time. In addition, children with this disease may often catch colds because their immunity is relatively low. Therefore, you can take your child out for outdoor activities more often. Mothers must pay more attention to their babies and let them grow up healthily.