Age of onset of viral myocarditis in children 3 to 10 years of age more common, clinical manifestations, malaise, about half of children with myocarditis appear in a few days before to 1 ~ 3 weeks with a cold or gastrointestinal symptoms such as fever, cough, nausea, vomiting , general discomfort, often accompanied by muscle pain, joint pain. After onset of light are no obvious symptoms, only the ECG changes, usually apathetic, pale, weakness, sweating, loss of appetite or nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain. Older children may be readme dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness, shortness of breath (long vent), precordial discomfort or pain.
Children's heart due to hypoxia, ischemia tolerance is low, so prone toArrhythmia, and even heart failure. Children with heart failure usually begins abruptly, progress rapidly, in some cases difficulty in breathing within a few minutes, while vomiting, irritability, sweating, pale and cyanotic, cold limbs, hair, quick pulse weakness, auscultation, pulmonary rales. At this point, if not timely and treatment, children are likely to have life-threatening.
Experts remind that, the children self-protection awareness of poor, sick will be running, slapstick, playful, this will increase the burden on the heart, so that further aggravate the cold-induced myocardial injury, and even develop into myocarditis.
Therefore, children should pay attention to rest cold, warmth, to prevent repeated colds, more water, light diet, eating a high vitamin C content of vegetables and fruits or appropriate vitamin C. It is noteworthy that some parents fear their children due to delays in learning, during a cold is still allowed to stay in school, would be aggravated by over-exertion the heart of the burden is very undesirable.
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