How Is a Heart Murmur Treated?
Innocent Heart Murmurs
Healthy children who have innocent heart murmurs
dont need treatment because they have normal hearts. If your child has an
innocent murmur, alert his or her doctor during regular checkups.
Pregnant women who have innocent heart murmurs due
to extra blood volume also dont need treatment.
You may have an innocent heart murmur due to an
illness or condition, such as
anemia,
hyperthyroidism, or fever. The murmur will go away once the illness or
condition is treated.
Abnormal Heart Murmurs
Treatment for abnormal heart murmurs depends on the
heart problems causing them. For example, treatment for a congenital heart
defect depends on the type and severity of the defect. Treatment may include
medicine or surgery. (For more information, see the Diseases and Conditions
Index Congenital
Heart Defects article.)
When an infection or disease causes a heart murmur,
treatment depends on the type, amount, and severity of the heart damage.
Treatments may include medicine or surgery. |