Some parents immediately panic when they hear the phrase “heart murmurs”. But it should be noted that most of these noises do not lead to anything serious.
Heart murmurs are divided into three types: harmless (functional), congenital and acquired. A functional heart murmur is present in a baby from the first days of his life and will be listened to until adolescence.
This type of murmur is not caused by heart disease or rheumatism, so it is completely harmless.
After an attack of rheumatism, the child develops acquired heart murmurs. Rheumatism causes inflammation and scarring of the heart valves that impede blood circulation. If such noises are found, it means that at the moment the child is undergoing an active rheumatic process, accompanied by other infections, for example, fever and changes in the blood.
Caring for a child with a heart murmur
If doctors can hear a heart murmur and you want to keep your child healthy, you should make sure that he plays games or only does sports that do not put a strong strain on the heart.
The main thing is not to allow the child to consider himself terminally ill or not like other children.
A congenital type of murmur caused by heart disease is detected at the birth of a baby, and sometimes after a year or more. In this case, it is not the heart murmurs themselves that are of concern. With heart disease, children find it difficult to breathe, their growth process slows down, although sometimes the baby can lead a hectic lifestyle: play, run and develop no worse than healthy children. Parents should not treat him as a disabled person, but, on the contrary, provide all the conditions for a normal life. But make sure that the baby does not get sick with infectious diseases, especially the flu.
Treatment of functional heart murmurs with water procedures
To calm the nervous system and heart, give your baby a bath by adding valerian to the water. 250 g of tincture must be brewed in one liter of water, insist, strain and add to the bath, which the child will take for at least 15 minutes.
Put your child on light meals. Give him apple soup, pumpkin with milk more often. It is useful to drink lemon or citron juices, yogurt. Children with heart disease should not eat foods with a lot of fats and plants and animals, reduce the amount of foods with cholesterol: egg yolks, butter, cheeses.
Also, try to minimize the risk of colds.
Children with congenital heart disease need to undergo a thorough examination not only by a pediatrician, but also by a cardiologist, because he may need an operation.
