Consider alternating the fruit juices you consume, as both grapefruit juice and orange juice provide more vitamin C per serving than cranberry juice. Eating fruits and vegetables including broccoli, red pepper, strawberries, kiwi, cauliflower, cantaloupe, mango and cabbage will also increase your vitamin C intake.
Infants and children with dilated cardiomyopathy most often present with signs of congestive heart failure. This is when the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs and there is a buildup of fluid in the body tissues and lungs. The heart also becomes congested with blood.
A hole in the heart is a common cause of abnormal murmurs in children. Cardiac shunts occur when blood flows abnormally through holes in the heart chambers or through the pulmonary and aortic valves. Valve calcification is hardening or thickening of valves that occurs with age.