Friday, October 24, 2008

Vigilance in children with acute myocarditis

Children with acute myocarditis in children, mostly school-age children, and in 1-3 weeks before the onset of influenza have been history. Therefore, parents will not take cold in children. There are a lot of virus infection can cause myocarditis, the most common is the Coxsackie B virus group. Other viruses such as influenza, ECHO virus, adenovirus, herpes virus, mumps virus can cause myocarditis. Such infections often start showing flu symptoms, and then may be against myocardial.
Children of the cold, should go to the hospital checkup and treatment in a timely manner so as to avoid violation of myocardial virus. The clinical symptoms of myocarditis uneven. Light can be no symptoms, only doctors or laboratory examination of cardiac auscultation was found to have abnormal. There are some children with dizziness, fatigue, loss of appetite, chest tightness, shortness of breath or heart before symptoms such as pain. As the disease progresses, can occur in children with nausea and vomiting, tachycardia, arrhythmias, and so on performance. The disease can be dramatic changes in a matter of hours, lead to heart failure, shock or syncope. If we do not save in a timely manner, can be life-threatening.
There is no specific vaccine available to prevent viral myocarditis. The key measures is to improve their own health, strengthening exercises and do a good job of prevention against common infectious diseases, to enhance immunity. Respiratory diseases in epidemic season, as little as possible to crowd congestion, air quality and easy-to-transmitted diseases in public places in order to prevent the occurrence of a variety of infections.