Infants with congenital heart disease, the daily home care

Congenital heart disease, can be divided into ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, tetralogy of Fallot. Congenital heart disease in children's growth and development impact, activity, or shortness of breath after exertion, dyspnea, whole body fatigue, severe bruising can occur. Because children with low resistance, susceptibility to respiratory infections, lung infections, recurrent, easily lead to congestive heart failure, tetralogy of Fallot in children crying or activity, often due to cerebral hypoxia and syncope or convulsions, seizures severe cases can lead to death.
(A) infants with congenital heart disease, the daily home care
1, should be reasonable arrangements for the children living system, both to enhance training, improve the body's resistance, but also proper rest and avoid overwork. If the child is capable, you should try and live and study with normal children, but should prevent violent activities. Also, children should be educated on the treatment of diseases confidence, reducing pessimism fear.
2, the indoor air to circulate. Open the windows in winter should be timed to strengthen air convection. Have sustained bruising in children, should avoid the indoor temperature is too high, resulting in children sweating, dehydration.
3, given high-protein, high-calorie, vitamin-rich diet to enhance physical fitness. Avoid eating too full. For children with cyanotic heart disease should give enough water intake to avoid dehydration caused by thrombosis.
Infants with congenital heart disease, feeding difficulty, fatigue, shortness of breath sucking often easy to stop sucking, and easy to vomiting and profuse sweating, it can be used when feeding dropper drops to reduce physical exertion in children. After feeding gently down side to prevent inhalation of vomit and pick up choking.
4, to avoid children with emotional, try not to make the children crying, to reduce unnecessary stimulation, so as not to increase the burden on the heart.
5, keep the stool. Cyanotic children with attention on the stool when not too hard to avoid burden on the heart. If two days without stool, available enema laxative.
6, congenital heart disease prohibits a lot of fluids, such as the need infusion, the speed to be slow drip to prevent the burden on the heart, leading to heart failure.
7, tetralogy of Fallot in children to take on more squat position, often walking or playing active squat while. This is because the squat after hypoxia symptoms can be alleviated, if the phenomenon of children, parents, children must not forcibly pull.
8, on cardiac function and exercise tolerance usually are better in children, should be vaccinated at the time, but after inoculation, should be more systemic and local reactions observed for timely processing.
9, congenital heart disease in children physical weakness, easy to infections, especially respiratory disease is more common, and is complicated by heart failure, it should be careful care, with the seasons, and into the change clothes. If family members are upper respiratory tract infection, isolation measures should be taken, should be minimal with children usually go to public places, a good season in infectious diseases, in particular should take early preventive measures. Once the children with infection, should actively control the infection.
10, found children with shortness of breath, irritability, rapid heart rate, difficulty breathing and other symptoms, may occur with heart failure should be promptly sent to hospital.