Tachypnoea in Infants

[shaemaree]

Hello

My 3 week old respiratory rate is often between 70 - 100 breaths a minute (monitored over 60 seconds) and has been doing this since birth.

Went back to hospital to have it checked where they did chest X-ray, blood tests, observations and an ECG sending us home thinking possibly an immature respiratory centre of the brain hoping she will grow out of it.

Has anyone else had Tachypnoea in their infant with resp rate often 80 breaths a min?

Not sure whether to take her to another hospital for advise?

Regards

Have they done an echo (heart scan)? That's the other thing I'd be tempted to do...

Is he also working hard when he breathes fast?

Okay I'll ask for an Echo on next visit to the paediatric team.

Some mild recession sometimes but no nose flaring.

Has anyone else experienced Tachypnea with breaths over 80 a minute in an otherwise healthy bub an they have grown out of it?
If so how long did it take?

My ds has similar was was diagnosed with a heart defect at 6 weeks.

Was the heart defect serious? Did it require surgery or anything

And how was the Hearst defect picked up? What tests did they do to diagnose it??

No it was fine. Just required monitoring. He had two small holes in his heart. One closed on it own, the other got smaller as he got bigger.

Was picked up in A&E. He was more monitored for tachypneoea at birth but all was fine,sent home. He breathing was fast in and off but I didn't think my of it then he went into respiratory distress with reflux and a heart mummer was picked up then.

It's common for a mummer not to be present at the neonatal check as the pressure is high in the lungs but the gp would have found it at the 6 week check anyway. It the hospital listen to his heart?