Chest pain when breathing may indicate a disease of the lungs, pleura, heart, chest and some other diseases. Sometimes the patient worried about just such a pain and nothing else. To find out what and why it hurts, it is necessary to conduct a full examination.
Contact with respiratory diseases
Chest pain when breathing often accompanies diseases such as severe (lobar) pneumonia and pleurisy (inflammation of the pleura - the serous membrane covering the lungs). It is a serious illness that requires hospital treatment.
When lobar pneumonia affects large part of the light - or the share of the segment, but the pain of breathing arise from the fact that in the inflammatory process always involves the pleura - there are many nerve endings. Lobar pneumonia is characterized by acute onset, high fever, dry cough, which turns into a cough with bloody sputum expectoration, severe.
Pleurisy can be an independent disease, occur in the form of dry or exudative pleurisy. In the dry pleurisy appears mild fever, cough, chest pain with a deep breath, fatigue, night sweats. Dry pleurisy can occur unnoticed, but maybe hard to escalate into exudative.
If pleural effusion in addition to chest pain when breathing appears increasing shortness of breath, and when the exudate becomes purulent - fever. To help such a patient can usually only remove the pleural cavity of the pus using pleural puncture.
Chest pain when breathing associated with diseases of the cardiovascular system
Pain during breathing may be associated with heart disease, in the case where the inflammatory process involved in cardiac bag - the pericardium, covering the outside of the heart. Between two sheets of serous pericardium is pericardial. Inflammation can be acute or chronic, dry and exudative (with the accumulation of inflammatory fluid in the pericardial cavity).
But any type of pericarditis is characterized by pain in the heart, worse when breathing. Moreover, if the process is acute, the pain, and there are strong enough, they can sometimes be confused with even strokes. They differ from the pain of pericarditis pain in angina longer duration, lack of effect when taking nitroglycerin, increased pain during deep breathing and shortness of breath change of body position. Shortness of breath when dry pericarditis occurs because the patient breathe deeply hurt and his breathing becomes frequent and superficial. Often dry pericarditis, pericardial enters.
When pericardial effusion is increasing shortness of breath and she was dependent not only on the pain factor, but also by compression of fluid in the heart of the heart bag. It compresses not only the heart, but other organs adjacent (trachea, esophagus). Squeezing of the trachea leads to a call appearance of dry cough, against which the heart pain
Pain in the heart - always consult a doctor
enhanced. Compression of the esophagus is a violation of swallowing, compression of the nerves that innervate the larynx - violations pronunciation of sounds and even the complete absence of votes.
Chronic pericarditis begins slowly, accompanied by shortness of breath and pain in the heart, worse from deep breaths. All the symptoms of the disease is slowly increasing.
After recovery of pericarditis is often found that the pericardial adhesions formed
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That interfere with cardiac activity, including the cause of pain when breathing deeply. The outcome may be calcification of the pericardium.
Intercostal neuralgia
Intercostal neuralgia may develop from various causes. Often, it occurs in various diseases of the thoracic spine when infringed roots extending from the spinal cord nerves. But it can also have an inflammatory origin, such as colds, with the defeat of the intercostal nerve zoster virus, in some diseases of internal organs.
A sign of intercostal neuralgia is the pain of a permanent nature along the edges, worse in different movements, including when breathing. In the places where the intercostal nerves to the surface can be determined in terms of increased sensitivity.
Treatment of intercostal neuralgia
Neuralgia - the scourge of the elderly
It depends The cause. In any case, to reduce pain appointed non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs both internally and externally (if no rash on the skin) - diclofenac voltaren
Voltaren - relieve inflammation and pain
, Nise and so on.
Pain in the chest when breathing depend on various reasons, to understand that only a doctor can.
Galina Romanenko