The article was consulted professionally by Master, Dr Do Nguyen Thuy Doan Trang – Head of Out-of-Body Recycling Team – Cardiovascular Center – Share99 Central Park International Health Hub. The doctor is a leading expert in Extra-Body Recycling in cardiac surgery and cardiac resuscitation, cardiovascular medical treatment.
Low heart disease is a type of heart disease that causes many dangerous or more serious complications that can lead to death for the patient. However, if the disease is detected and treated early and properly, it can be avoided or cured.
1. The concept of low heart disease
Low heart can occur at any age but most often between the ages of 1-15. The incidence in females is about 2 times higher than in men.
Not all patients with sysentary throat infection lead to low heart but only a small number lead to low heart, favorable factors leading to low heart is the patient's body, hygiene status, inadequate treatment.
In the acute stage, rheumatoid heart can cause acute myocarditis, arrhythmias … risking the patient's life. The most dangerous problem of low heart disease is emergency complications and especially chronic consequences, some patients will leave evidence in the heart valves causing low-cardiac valve diseases.
2. Symptoms of low heart disease
When the patient has low heart, the following symptoms usually appear:
- Pain or swelling of the joints, usually with large joints such as the knee joint and of a moving nature. Joint pain usually helps after only a few days to a week or when taking aspirin, other analgesics and does not leave evidence in the joints.
- Chest pain, shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat when it is too fast or sometimes too slow.
- Special ring-shaped edict appears around the joints called "ring yolks" or those that emerge under the skin called "node rashes".
- There can be signs of dancing, jerky dancing, dancing moves, swinging limbs in an unsustening way …
To diagnose heart disease, it is necessary to rely on a number of clinical standards and test on the basis of finding evidence of group A hemolysis beta singular infection. However, not all patients with low heart disease are full of clinical signs or tests as described above.
3. Is low heart disease curable?
When a child has this disease, it is necessary to be treated by a cardiologist at the hospital, depending on the degree of danger of the disease, there are different treatments. However, the general characteristics of all treatments are focused on the purpose of fighting bacterial infections, fighting inflammation and treating complications of the disease.
- Anti-inflammatory: For children with rheumatoid heart disease can be prescribed treatment by a doctor with intramuscularly injectable Penicillin G antibiotics, continuously for 10 days. The oral drug Penicillin V (Ospen) has a similar effect in the treatment of low heart disease. In case the child has allergies, the doctor will prescribe Erythromycin
- Anti-inflammatory with steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (Prednisolon) and non-Steroidal (Aspirin, Alaxan,).
Low heart disease is a dangerous disease caused by complications that occur to the person. Therefore, when treating a sick child, the doctor will often prescribe medications to treat complications of the disease.
4. Ways to prevent and care for children
Some ways to prevent rheumatism such as: taking penicillin antibiotic therapy as a prevention for patients who have had rheumatism or rheumatism.
In addition, for children with a history of this disease, it is necessary to take medications for continuous prevention throughout the teenage period, thorough treatment of diseases such as pharyngitis caused by sysentary infection is also one of the effective methods of preventing rheumatoid heart disease.
Until now, medicine has not had a vaccine for sys to treat sys to diagnose and treat syscal infections in a timely manner to avoid the consequences of heart disease in children.
For children who have had low heart disease and have open heart valve stenosis, they must keep their teeth clean, brush their teeth after each meal to prevent dental infections that can lead to blood and endocardiosis. When pulling teeth, you must have a procedure or surgery to tell your doctor in advance about your history of heart disease in order to receive antibiotics for backup.
Children with this disease must be monitored by a cardiologist at a hospital or medical facility, which should give them an absolute rest in bed for at least 2 weeks during the treatment period. In some cases, severe illness requires a long resort regime of about 6 weeks to 3 months.
If the child has edema or heart failure must develop a separate diet and eat lightly: do not season salt in food if any, only very little, do not feed the sick child with fish sauce or soy sauce and should limit the amount of translation according to the instructions of the cardiologist.
In addition, parents must give the child a 4-week check-up every 3 or 6 months depending on the doctor's instructions, absolutely do not forget to give the child medicine or forget to visit again to avoid the disease recurrence quickly and worsen much.
When the child has abnormal manifestations such as fever, swelling of the joints, fatigue, shortness of breath, edema, little urination, it is necessary to take the child to the hospital immediately for timely examination and treatment.
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