Which Chest Pain to Watch Out For

Chest pain should be taken seriously. Common causes of chest pain include pleurisy, intercostal neuralgia, lung tumors, angina pectoris, and trauma. 1. Pleurisy: Inflammation that occurs in the pleural cavity can cause chest pain and chest tightness. In tuberculous pleurisy, the patient may also be accompanied by low-grade fever, night sweats and other systemic symptoms. 2. Intercostal neuralgia: pain distributed along the intercostal nerves, pins and needles pain or burning pain, herpes zoster virus can be seen on the surface of the skin in clusters of herpes. 3. Lung tumor: when the size of the tumor gradually increases, it is easy to produce compression in the chest cavity and chest pain; it can also be seen when the tumor pulls on the pleura and the pleural depression sign occurs, and pleural friction can be produced when breathing, resulting in pain. 4. Angina pectoris: such as coronary artery spasm, coronary artery stenosis, insufficient coronary blood supply, when coronary ischemia is further aggravated, it will develop into variant angina pectoris, and even progress to myocardial infarction, the onset of the disease is mostly due to emotional excitement or caused by exertion. Chest pain is mostly crushing pain, accompanied by chest tightness. 5. Trauma: local soft tissue injury or rib fracture caused by impact or extrusion, which can be manifested as chest pain, chest tightness, etc., and localized skin lesions or bruises can be seen. Chest pain can also be seen in other diseases, the occurrence of chest pain, it is recommended that patients go to the regular hospital in a timely manner, so as not to delay the condition.