Hidden chest pain when dry cough, may be due to coughing on the chest wall of the skin and muscle pull lead to pain, but also may lead to dry cough of the disease itself lead to chest pain. 1. Pulling: When coughing intensely, the chest wall muscles are overly tense and the skin is pulled repeatedly, which may lead to chest wall soft tissue strain or even costochondritis, and then it will lead to mild chest pain. 2. The disease itself: when the lesion involves the lung or pleura, due to the invasion of inflammation or tumor, the local nerves will be stimulated resulting in pain. Such as pleurisy, lung cancer, pneumothorax, severe pneumonia and so on. Most of this pain is relatively severe and does not improve with rest. It is recommended that patients seek timely medical attention to determine the specific cause of chest pain when dry cough, and targeted medication for treatment, if necessary, under the guidance of the doctor to use analgesic drugs to relieve pain.