Parents are understandably concerned when the doctor says their child has a murmur or other atypical heart sound. Heart murmurs are fairly common in children, and, in most cases, they occur in children with normal, healthy hearts. Many children outgrow these “benign” murmurs with time. There’s another type of sound that doctors hear commonly when ...
What is a heart murmur? A heart murmur is an irregular or abnormal heart beat caused by a disturbance in blood flow. While a heart murmur itself is not a disease or illness, it can be the symptom of an underlying medical problem. Heart murmurs in dogs are considered to be common. In some cases, ...
Did your child’s doctor say your child has a physiologic murmur? Both adults and children can have physiologic or functional murmurs although they’re more common in kids. What is a physiologic murmur – and should you be concerned if your child has one? What is a Physiologic Murmur? A murmur is an extra sound a ...
Barbara Herbert and Dianne Goodship After being separated at birth, Barbara Herbert and Dianne Goodship were finally reunited. After the suicide of their biological mother, both girls were adopted by British families. While one lady was a polish nun, the other was a Michigan housewife. That seems to be where the differences end and the ...
Fungal infections of the body can be harmful and severe or minor and insignificant. We are all familiar with fungal infections of the feet. This type of infection is common and rather insignificant. Most people have had a case of athlete’s foot at one time or another. Everyday many people around the world are infected ...
As 2011 wraps up, I can’t help but think of sweet old Sarah, who needed to be euthanized in January due to cancer. She was an abandoned black mixed breed cat that my Mom picked up from a Pennsylvania campground back in the early 1990s. She had a host of health problems all of her ...
Welcome to my first article in my series of pet care and veterinary advice artcles. Sure you are asking, “why vet google?” That one is easy, peasy. First, it was a little nickname I was given as a veterinary adviser (as a vet who actually advises treatment options for other vets’ cases) but in this ...
Poodles are among the top ten popular breed of dogs in the United States. There are three breeds of poodle grouped together to place the breed among the top ten. These poodles are toy, miniature and standard, but, each has its own set of health concerns and diseases that owners should be aware of. Toy ...
When I took our youngest daughter to her 18 month checkup, the pediatrician muttered something about a heart murmur as he listened at her chest with his stethoscope. My gasp probably led him to listen several more times and eventually let me know that it was considered a “benign” heart murmur. “We’ll just listen at ...
What is a Heart Murmur? A heart murmur is an unusual sound heart while a physician or other medical professional is listening to your heartbeat. Murmurs can be very faint or they can be very loud. Sometimes they sound like a whooshing or swishing sound. The sounds are made when blood flows through the heart. ...
