What causes chest tightness and shortness of breath in adolescents

Adolescent teenagers chest tightness and shortness of breath may be caused by physiological factors such as emotional excitement, but also may be caused by bronchial asthma, viral myocarditis and other disease factors.
1. Physiological factors: adolescents may be due to changes in hormone levels in the body, emotions are easily agitated, anxiety, and adverse emotions will affect the neurohumoral regulation, so that the vasoconstriction and diastolic function is affected, at the same time will affect the respiratory rhythm, and therefore chest tightness, shortness of breath.
2. Pathologic factors:
(1) Respiratory diseases: such as bronchial asthma, pneumonia, pleurisy, etc., due to airway obstruction, inflammatory lesions leading to a decrease in effective ventilation and other factors, resulting in a decline in lung function, and then chest tightness, shortness of breath and other discomforts.
(2) Heart disease: such as infectious myocarditis, viral myocarditis, etc., because myocarditis will lead to a decline in the function of the heart, resulting in arterial blood can not be effectively pumped into the aorta in a timely manner, resulting in pulmonary stagnation, resulting in chest tightness, In addition, myocarditis can also lead to rapid atrial arrhythmia, resulting in elevated pulmonary venous pressure, resulting in chest tightness, shortness of breath and other discomforts.
Adolescent teenagers chest tightness and shortness of breath may also be in a closed environment for a long time, severe anemia, costochondritis, etc., when relaxation, improve the environment, there is still chest tightness, shortness of breath discomfort, it is recommended that timely medical treatment, so as not to delay the condition.