Difficulty in breathing at night in the elderly may be due to bronchitis, heart disease, asthma, lung cancer and other reasons.
1. Bronchitis: the common symptoms are coughing, coughing up sputum, may also appear, shortness of breath, dyspnea, at night due to the vagus nerve excitability enhancement, which can lead to the elderly people to appear at night dyspnea.
2. Asthma: due to the stimulation of external environmental factors, allergy and other reasons, patients may suffer from coughing, wheezing, dyspnea and other symptoms, with higher incidence at night, so they may suffer from dyspnea and coughing at night.
3. Lung cancer: Lung cancer patients may also trigger symptoms such as dyspnea and violent cough at night in the elderly.
4. Heart disease: patients with cardiac insufficiency, when they sleep at night, the volume of return blood increases, the load of right heart increases, and the pulmonary stasis increases, so they usually have symptoms of dyspnea and chest tightness at night.
Dyspnea at night in the elderly can also be seen in other diseases, it is recommended to go to a professional hospital, clear cause of the disease in the doctor’s guidance for the next step in the examination and treatment.