My son is 8 and was found to have a heart mumur by accident last year, he was getting chest pains after having a nasty flu, which was the lining around his heart got inflamed. I freaked because it wasn't picked up earlier and I knew it was a bad sign that at his age he still had one as they usually grow out of it by then if it's an okay one.

We got off straight to the paed card who did some tests and after a bit of a wait, we found out it was one of the good mumur's he'll probably have for the rest of his life but won't cause problems.

The paed card said heaps of children have mumur's in their younger years and usually grow out of them. They are harmless he said and very common. Some are picked up when they are babies, some arent' (I didn't have very good medical care when DS was young, I was isolated). The biggest sign that my DS was okay was the fact he didnt' want to sleep all day and was a normal active child.

I'm sure your little man will be fine...it's apparently very common and rarely means anything nasty.

I know how you feel though, it can be quite a scare!

Let us know how you and him go