Symptoms of Heart Murmur
Normally, the Heart Murmurs do not come with any significant symptoms. But the abnormal heart murmurs do come with some symptoms that may be annoying to the patient. The innocent heart murmurs are very quiet and do not come with any significant symptoms. Take a look
Innocent Heart Murmurs:
These are the harmless ones that do not pose a big problem to the patients. Their main feature is that they are the ones not posing any problems for the patient and they remain throughout the life of the patient. However many doctors do not consider it as a serious disorder and hence no serious symptoms are associated with it. Normally the patient cannot feel the heart murmur and the doctor can only diagnose it with a stethoscope. Normally few medicines are prescribed by the doctor, but there is no danger to life for those affected with the innocent heart murmurs. So they are not the ones causing heart disorders like Heart Arrhythmia and Congestive Heart Diseases. So the patient need not panic if he or she is diagnosed with these diseases.
Also this disease is very harmless and the symptoms may be very acute as well. These acute symptoms are not common among all the patients and occur in only few people suffering from Innocent Heart Murmurs. Normally the person may develop shortness of breath. There may not be any other symptoms other than that. But it is advisable that the patient keeps going for a normal medical check up.
Abnormal Heart Murmurs:
This is the very dangerous form of heart murmurs and should be carefully diagnosed. As this may be associated with any disease, first the diagnosis of that particular disease has to be carried out in order to treat this form of Heart murmurs. Also their symptoms are well pronounced when compared to the Innocent Heart Murmurs and hence the symptoms can be easily identified. Also the symptoms once identified, should be immediately treated by the doctor as this may very easily become a killer disease and starts to attack the patients
If we take a look at the symptoms we will learn that these are the similar symptoms of any heart disease. Of course as the heart murmurs originate due to a heart disorder in the body. The symptoms include the common chest pain as the heart blood vessels may be clogged or narrowed with the fatty deposits, also palpitations are widely seen and hence the patients may suffer from breathlessness as well. Also the other symptoms include general fatigue that normally sets in due to the breathlessness and along with the bluish color appearance of the lips, which is normally seen in babies.