What are the symptoms of heart disease in children?

Heart disease is a common circulatory system disease with a high mortality rate. People often feel pity when they hear about heart disease, but it is even more heartbreaking to hear that children suffer from heart disease. Children's immunity to diseases is lower than that of adults, so when faced with heart disease, they usually suffer more and bear more damage and pain than adults. Now let me tell you what the symptoms of heart disease are in children.

1. Palpitations: One of the most common symptoms of heart patients. The patient feels his heart racing or panic, accompanied by discomfort in the precordial area. When the heart rate is slow, he often feels a strong heartbeat. When the heart rate speeds up, he can feel his heart beating and even vibration in the precordial area. A physical examination may reveal a fast, slow, or irregular heart rate. Various heart diseases can present with this symptom.

2. Fatigue: a common symptom of heart disease. When heart disease impairs blood circulation, metabolic waste (mainly lactic acid) accumulates in tissues, stimulating nerve endings and causing fatigue. Fatigue can be mild or severe. Mild fatigue may not be a concern, but severe fatigue may interfere with work. But heart disease fatigue is not specific and is difficult to distinguish from fatigue caused by other diseases.

3. Dyspnea: an important symptom of respiratory insufficiency. The patient subjectively feels that there is not enough air, and objectively manifests as labored breathing. In severe cases, nasal flaring, cyanosis, and orthopnea occur, and the auxiliary respiratory muscles are involved in respiratory activities. There may also be abnormalities in respiratory rate, depth, and rhythm. Common in left ventricular failure.

4. Edema: When there is excessive fluid accumulation in the gaps between human tissues, it is called edema. Edema can be divided into systemic and local. When the amount of fluid is considerable, pitting edema occurs. Common in right heart failure.

5. Hemoptysis: It is more common in patients with mitral stenosis. Due to the existence of collateral circulation between the pulmonary veins and bronchial veins, increased pulmonary venous pressure can increase the blood pressure of small veins in the subbronchial mucosa, leading to varicose veins and rupture bleeding.

Children's heart disease is not incurable. As long as they persist in treatment and follow the doctor's advice, I believe that children's heart disease will have a chance of recovery. In addition, when facing children with heart disease, we should give them more care so that they have the energy and spirit to overcome the disease.