VSD

Introduction

Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), a hole in the heart, is a common type of defect which existing at birth. This hole is occurs in the wall that separate the hearts lower chamber. This thing allows the blood about to flow from left to the right side. Thus small VSD defect may not create any problem however medium or large VSD need surgical repair and full treatment.

Symptoms for VSD

The sign for the VSD normally appear during the very first days or the month of a child’s life. In baby the symptoms for the VSD include:

Poor eating
Fast breathing
Easy tiring

One more thing to tell about the symptoms is that, doctor may not notice signs of VSD if the defect is small. Symptoms are not being appeared due to small size or hole. As this kind of diseases dependable on the size, whole as well as on other associated heart defect.

Calling the Doctor

Following are the signs or indications which if you notice in your baby then its time to call the doctor immediately,

Tires when eating or playing
Not gaining the weight
Breathless during crying or eating
Fatigue or weakness

Prevention

In some of the cases, you can’t do anything for preventing the baby having VSD. Thus it is very important to do some possibilities to have healthy pregnancy.

Get Early Prenatal Care

Always concern to your doctor before you get pregnant about your health and tell about the changing of lifestyle. So according to your situation doctor recommended you some advice for healthy pregnancy.

Eating of Balance Diet

In balance diet always use vitamin supplements which contain the folic acid. However limited amount of caffeine.

Avoid Risks

This avoiding risk means to get away from any kind of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs which creates real damage to your body.

Conclusion

These are the main facts and figures about VSD, I hope this information give you new knowledge and idea to prevent from it. So if you like this all please share it to your friends and family for giving us thump up.

Regard: Dr. Naveed Shahzad