Summer chest tightness and shortness of breath is may be a normal physiological response, but also may be related to bronchial asthma, low blood pressure, coronary heart disease and so on.
1. Physiological reaction: when the weather is hot, especially in a long time in the air circulation, doors and windows closed environment, there may be a transient hypoxia, which in turn leads to chest tightness, shortness of breath.
2. Bronchial asthma: Bronchial asthma patients who are allergic to certain pollens in the summer, when they come into contact with these pollens in the summer, may induce bronchospasm, resulting in chest tightness, shortness of breath and other discomforts.
3. Low blood pressure: the summer temperature rise, will make blood vessel expansion, sweating, which leads to a drop in blood pressure, resulting in the blood supply of the organs of the whole body is reduced, resulting in chest tightness, shortness of breath.
4. Coronary heart disease: summer temperature rise, will induce myocardial ischemia symptoms aggravate, for coronary heart disease patients, myocardial blood supply is seriously insufficient, myocardial oxygen consumption increased, thus causing chest tightness, shortness of breath and other discomforts.
There are many other causes of summer chest tightness and shortness of breath, such as heat stroke, emphysema, bronchitis, myocarditis, heart failure, etc. When a long time chest tightness and shortness of breath, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, improve the relevant examination, and standardize the treatment after the cause of the disease is clear.