About Dr. Frederick Blount Expertise Pediatrician, retired. I trained at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia some years ago and I did private practice here in Winston-Salem for 30 years until I went full time to the Wake Forest Medical School until retirement.
Our Dr. found a "Innocent Heart" murmor in our baby at her 2 month check up. He said it was nothing to worry about since most murmurs were innocent.
However, I just found in the Child Development book our Dr. gave us, information indicating that ANY heart murmur detected under the age of 6 months was almost never "Innocent".
Can you give me some guidance before I talk to our Dr. about it?
Thanks in advance,
Rachel Dahlen
Answer There are innocent heart murmurs in babies. All I can add is that if you trust your physician and he says it is innocent then it is almost certainly innocent. There are other signs besides what a physicians hears that add to the evidence as to the diagnosis of innocent or not. A murmur is similar to the noise in the plumbing which happens when a fluid is going from a pipe of one size to another size. The heart is a complex pump and very many times in its development the fluid (blood) has to go from one conduit (bloods vessel)to another of different size so that a noise (murmur)occurs. The murmur is usually transient for several months or less but not always.
