Chest tightness and breathlessness is divided into physiological and pathological, pathological causes are common in coronary heart disease, myocarditis and other cardiovascular diseases; bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other respiratory diseases; chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and other digestive diseases.
1. Physiological: healthy people in the low air pressure, air circulation in the environment, or emotional depression, exercise may lead to chest tightness, suffocation, this is a normal physiological changes, remove the above triggers can be relieved most of the time.
2. Pathologic:
(1) cardiovascular diseases: such as coronary heart disease, the formation of plaque narrowing of the heart blood vessels caused by myocardial ischemia and hypoxia, the patient can appear chest tightness; myocarditis, due to various factors of infection caused by myocardial inflammatory response, causing myocardial injury or necrosis chest tightness, shortness of breath; heart failure, heart ejection of blood decreased unable to supply the body needs, the patient can appear chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms.
(2) Respiratory system diseases: such as respiratory tract infections, inflammatory stimulation leads to bronchial smooth muscle spasm, chest tightness, shortness of breath; bronchial asthma leads to bronchial spasm chest tightness symptoms; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease leads to weakening of the lung function can also cause chest tightness, shortness of breath performance.
(3) digestive system diseases: such as reflux gastroesophagitis, due to gastric acid reflux stimulation of the stomach, esophagus back wall, there will be chest tightness; chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, gastric erosion, etc. will trigger gastrointestinal dysfunction, gastric flatulence, the patient may be self-conscious of chest tightness discomfort.
It is recommended that when the patient has a tight chest, go to the hospital in time and follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment after clarifying the cause.