Does newborn baby heart have murmur?

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Most parents are very nervous when they hear that their children have heart murmurs. They think that their baby is suffering from congenital heart disease, all kinds of uneasiness and fear. In fact, not all children with heart murmurs have heart disease. Due to patent ductus arteriosus, a chirp can be heard in the precordial area, and parents will mistakenly think that the baby has heart disease. In fact, some children in school age and early childhood can still hear some mild physiological Murs, but there is no discomfort. Today we will introduce the problem of neonatal heart murmur.

Does newborn baby heart have murmur?

Some children in the physical examination, the doctor will hear the heart murmur. Many parents think that their children have heart problems, so they take their children blindly to seek medical treatment everywhere. In fact, the production of murmur is the enhancement of blood flow vibration of pulmonary artery. The murmur produced by this kind of vibration is high and soft, but generally does not exceed grade II and does not conduct.

Heart murmur is usually more obvious when a child is feverish, crying, or exercising violently, and weakens when it is quiet. This kind of heart murmur is not a heart disease, and we call it "functional murmur" or "harmless murmur", which will not affect the growth and development of a child. Children's physiological murmurs usually first appear in infancy. The number of children aged 2-3 increases, and the number of children aged 3-7 increases.

Children with congenital heart disease, their growth and development is not the same as ordinary children, some a little activity, on the heart and asthma, some anoxic cyanosis. If a child's heart is found to have a murmur, parents should not be too nervous, otherwise it will cause some mental and psychological burden on the child. They should take the child to the hospital for examination.

matters needing attention

Heart murmurs are often caused by congenital defects of the heart, or by valve regurgitation. When the baby is older, he can recover himself without major problems; Then there is the transient noise caused by infection, but it is rare! If there is a baby with patent foramen ovale, the small one can grow on itself, and the large one needs surgery or interventional treatment after 2 years old.