Mitral Valve Prolapse Treatment

Mitral valve prolapse usually requires no specific treatment, except reassurance, since most people do not have serious underlying heart disease. Rather, care focuses on minor changes a person can make that may prevent symptoms.

• The condition usually requires no activity restrictions, but the person should avoid competitive sports if he has a definite click and murmur of significant mitral insufficiency. Most people have minimal, if any, mitral insufficiency.
  
  
• There are no special restrictions on diet.
  
  
• Caffeine, alcohol, and stimulant intake should be limited if heart irregularities are present. 
  
  
• Maintain normal fluid intake. Dehydration can provoke MVP.

If a woman is pregnant, she should tell her obstetrician or midwife that she has mitral valve prolapse.

• Most women with mitral valve prolapse require no specific precautions.
  
  
• A woman may require antibiotics if she needs a urinary catheter or has an infection at the time of delivery and has a heart murmur of mitral insufficiency.

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