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    Heart Attacks And Drinking Warm Water

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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    Need any help on child heart problems please do write. We reach professionals to seek and provide you help.
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    Others: Exercise and congenital heart defects Children and adults with congenital heart defects can tolerate varying levels of exercise. Generally, exercise restrictions are based on the severity and type of heart defect. People with mild heart defects usually can participate in any type of...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Additional Treatment Caring for your child with a congenital heart defect may involve many different types of therapy in addition to medicines and surgery. Some of these may include: Oxygen therapy: Your child may need extra oxygen at home. It is given through a small tube that...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Other Treatments Heart catheterization may be used to correct certain congenital heart defects. Children generally recover more quickly from a heart catheterization procedure than from a surgery. Additional treatment for a child with a congenital heart defect may involve...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Surgery If your child has a large or complex congenital heart defect, he or she may need open-heart surgery. The kind of surgery will depend on what defect the child has. In general the types of surgery are: Closing holes that have either formed or not closed. Usually, a patch...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Giving Medicines for a Child with CHD Medicines to treat congenital heart defects are very strong and can be dangerous if they are not given correctly. It is important to know how to give your child's medicines safely. Be sure you understand how much medicine to give and how to...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Medications Medicines often are needed to treat congenital heart defects until the defect can be repaired or corrected. Some complex acyanotic heart defects and most cyanotic heart defects require ongoing treatment with medicines even after the defect is repaired. Children with...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Home Treatment/Care Congenital heart defects often are repaired with surgery or heart catheterization, but home treatment also plays an important role. Coping with oxygen problems Home treatment may include caring for a child who has cyanosis, or problems getting enough oxygen...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: What to expect in the hospital for a CHD child If child is born with a heart defect, many trips to the hospital and one or more surgeries may be needed. While in the hospital, your child's treatment may involve: Receiving intravenous (IV) fluids until he or she wakes up...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: What to think about Some people die from severe congenital heart defects or related complications, such as heart failure. If your baby is born with a severe heart defect, be assured that there is a good chance that he or she will survive with treatment. But you must also...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Treatment if the condition gets worse If your child has a severe congenital heart defect or develops complications, more treatment is needed. Medicines often are used for young children with large defects who have heart failure. Complex cyanotic heart defects usually require...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Ongoing treatment If your child needs surgery, your doctor may want to wait until your child is about 2 to 4 years old. Meanwhile, caring for your child who has a heart problem can be hard. You may need to keep track of many medicines and make frequent trips to the doctor. Costs...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Initial treatment If your child has a mild heart defect, a doctor may want to see if the defect gets better on its own. Your child may need some medicines during this time to help his or her heart work better. For example, a medicine called a prostaglandin inhibitor can be given...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    CHD Treatment: Overview Your child's treatment for a congenital heart defect will be based on the type of problem he or she has. Your child's age, size, and general health also are important. Treatment helps most children to live fairly normal lives. Your child may need: Medicines to help...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    Heart catheterization for congenital heart defects A heart catheterization is a procedure used for both diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects. The procedure allows health professionals to see how blood flows through the heart chambers and arteries. This test may also be called...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    Echocardiogram (Echo) An echocardiogram is well known as echo is a type of ultrasound test that uses high-pitched sound waves that are sent through a device called a transducer. The device picks up echoes of the sound waves as they bounce off the different parts of your heart. These echoes are...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    Examinations and Test for detecting Many congenital heart defects are found within the first month after a baby is born. To diagnose a heart defect, a doctor will ask certain questions about the baby's symptoms, appetite, and other habits and give the baby a physical exam. An echocardiogram and...
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    Please Help! Children born with Heart Defects

    When to call a doctor Call Emergency services if child has severe difficulty breathing, faints, or has seizures. Important to know signs related to followings: A child who is having severe difficulty breathing: Breathes very fast or grunts with each breath. Appears anxious or exhausted...

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