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.
Respiratory distress syndrome, or RDS, in premature babies is one of the more common health problems caused by being born early. Immature lungs are the culprit in RDS, which causes difficulty breathing. The working parts of the lungs are the alveoli, tiny sacs in the lungs that inflate with air when we breathe. Alveoli are covered with tiny blood vessels that carry oxygen from the air we breathe to the rest of the body. In premature babies, the alveoli donât always work as well as they should.