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Children and Heart
The common symptoms and signs of heart diseases in children have been summarized in the acronym ABCDEFGHIJO.
- Activity: Less active, less alert, easy fatigability, exercise intolerance
- Breathing: fast, difficult, shortness of breath
- Color: bluish discoloration of tongue, lips, fingers; pale skin
- Deformity: bulged chest, deformed body organ, congenital anomalies
- Edema: swelling of face, limbs, body, abdomen
- Feeding: difficulty in sucking, poor feeding, tired easily
- Growth: delayed growth and development
- History of viral infection, diabetes, smoking and intake of drugs, alcohol during pregnancy
- Infection: recurrent respiratory infection
- Joint: pain, swelling
- Others: excessive sweating; visible pulsation on the chest and neck, palpitation; syncope, faintness, seizure, restlessness, irritability, squatting posture, cold extremities, decreased urine, bleeding from nose, obesity, prematurity, malposition, clubbing, routine health check up finding
[Heart disease may present with any one or several of the above symptoms]
Source: Basnet NB (2018) Identification of children’s heart disease in remote areas. Trends Med 18: DOI: 10.15761/TiM.1000146. https://www.oatext.com/identification-of-childrens-heart-disease-in-remote-areas.php#Article
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