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The heart is a muscular pump for high efficiency and great function to pump blood throughout the period of life to other parts of the body.
The causes of heart disease in children:
These causes can be divided into two main sections:
- The first section is birth defects.
- Section II is a disease acquired.
First: congenital heart defects:
Mahoualemqsod congenital heart defect?
This is a heart defect since birth and this comes from the heart, which is seeking to acquire in the fetus in the first weeks of pregnancy is not set up as a natural way.
Why some children are born with heart defects?
Still the causes of congenital heart defects is not known with certainty, however, notes that the likelihood of these defects increases if it is exposed to pregnant and particularly during the period of early pregnancy to the following factors:
1 - German measles.
2 - the abuse of certain drugs such as some types of sedatives and some central nervous system stimulants and some medicines for epilepsy drugs to treat cancer.
3 - infected pregnant diabetes.
4 - infected pregnant SLE.
5 - smoking and alcohol abuse.
Are defects in the heart of genetic diseases?
May ask parents who are expecting a baby on the likelihood of injury and Idahma congenital heart defect often ask parents who had a child by a congenital heart defect on the probability of recurrence of this defect in children arriving and in view of the statistics, which worked in this field shows the following:
First - if there is no history prior to the occurrence of a congenital heart defect, the risk of the family to be around 8 per thousand
Secondly - if there is one or more relatives infected with the congenital heart defect, especially if was close to the first class, this ratio significantly higher
How can a mother to suspect that her child was sick probably congenital heart defect?
If you notice the mother of any of the following symptoms, it shall offer her child to the doctor maybe he was sick the congenital heart defect
1 - severe stress during lactation, forcing the child to repeatedly stop breastfeeding, which requires a long time to complete the feeding.
2 - difficulty breathing, increasing speed with the head to move forward and backward with each breath.
3 - lots of sweating even in cold weather, especially during lactation.
4 - increased heart rate.
5 - very slow increase in weight but continued to increase in length in the natural rate.
6 - and a blue body pointed out places discovered on the lips and in the mucous membrane lining of the mouth and in the nails.
7 - chronic bronchitis and recurrent pulmonary infections. |
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