This means that your heart had a defect when you were born. Congenitial heart defects change the normal flow of blood through the heart.

1  A bluish tint to the Skin, Fingertips and Lips

2· Fast breathing and poor feeding

3· Poor weight gain

4· Lung infections
5  An inability to exercise

This disease tends to be hereditary but other factors that contribute to the disease include:
     

1  Certain gene or chromosome problem in the child such as down syndrome

2·  Taking certain drugs or medicines, alcohol or drug abuse during the time of the pregnancy.

3·  An infection such as rubella in the mother in the first trimester of the mother

4·  Also poorly controlled blood sugar in the woman during the pregnancy

1. Ensure you are vaccinated against rubella and the flu

2. Avoid drinking alcohol or taking drugs

3. If you have diabetes, make sure its controlled

Mild heart defects don't usually need treatment but regular checkups are needed to monitor your health. More severe cases will need sugery and longterm moitoring of the heart throughout adult life by a congenitial heart disease specialist.

Cardiomyopathy can be acquired or inherited. 'Acquired' means you weren't born with the disease but you developed it due to another disease, condition or factor. 'Inherited' means your parents passed the gene for the disease on to you.

In many cases, the cause of cardiomyopathy isn't known, but it can be caused by:

1·Drinking too much alcohol over a period of time, particularly if you have an unhealthy diet. 

2·Viral infections which cause inflammation of the heart muscle (known as myocarditis)

3·Some cardiomyopathies run in families. 

Lifestyle Changes - Lifestyle changes may help manage a condition causing your cardiomyopathy. 

1·        A healthy diet and physical activity are part of a healthy lifestyle. A healthy diet includes a variety of fruits, vegetables, and grains.  

2. Choose foods that are low in saturated fat, Trans fat, and cholesterol. This includes lean meats, poultry without skin, fish, beans, and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products. 

3. Choose foods with little sodium (salt). Too much salt can raise your risk of high blood pressure.

4·Choose foods and beverages that are low in added sugar.  Avoid drinking alcohol.

5·Aim for a healthy weight by staying within your daily calorie needs. Balance the calories you take in with the calories you use during physical activity. Be as physically active as you can.

Management of cardiomyopathy is focused around relieving symptoms, preventing complications and maximizing quality of life. The main focus is on symptom control with medication. These medications also help to control and prevent arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms), and to lessen the risk of blood clots forming.

1·Cardioversion, a pacemaker or an implantable defibrillator may be used to treat and control certain types of arrhythmia. People with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are sometimes offered surgery to remove parts of the thickened heart muscle. 

2·When medication can't adequately control the symptoms of cardiomyopathy, and a person's quality of life is affected, heart transplantation may be considered.

3. By way of control and prevention, making some simple lifestyle changes can go a long way to making a healthier life for you and your family

Heart-healthy eating, physical activity, other heart-healthy lifestyle changes, and medicines aimed at preventing a heart attack, high blood pressure, or heart failure also may help prevent heart valve disease.

For example, a heart-healthy diet, and medicines that lower cholesterol might prevent a heart valve disease called aortic stenosis which involves thickening and stiffening of the aortic valve, but this theory is still being researched.

You may be prescribed medications to treat your symptoms and to lessen the chance of further valve damage. Some drugs may be stopped after you have had heart valve surgery to correct the problem. Other medications may need to be taken all your life. 

Surgical options include heart valve repair or replacement. Valves can be repaired or replaced with traditional heart valve surgery or a minimally invasive heart valve surgery. Heart valves may also be repaired by other procedures such as percutaneous balloon valvotomy.

1·        Shortness of breath

2·        Faster heartbeat

3·        Palpitations

4·        Weakness

5·        Sweating

6·        Nuasea

1·        Quiting smoking

2·        A healthy diet

3·        Getting regular excersise

4·        Weight manageent

Also, there are coronary interventions such as angioplasty and coronary stent. A coronary bypass could also be done