Patients with lung infections may feel uncomfortable when lying down, which may be related to the seriousness of the infection that affects breathing, the development of pleural effusion, or the combination of heart disease.
1. Patients with severe lung infections caused by bacterial invasion, which affects lung function and leads to hypoxia or bronchospasm, may experience symptoms such as chest tightness and dyspnea when lying down.
2. If the inflammation of lung infection spreads to the pleura or leads to a large amount of inflammatory exudate, if it causes pleural effusion, it may cause cough, fever, difficulty in breathing when lying down and other uncomfortable symptoms.
3. Lung infection patient combined with insufficient blood supply to the myocardium, coronary artery disease, myocardial ischemia and hypoxia may occur when lying down panic, chest tightness, precordial pain and other uncomfortable symptoms.
Lung infection patients with obvious dyspnea, chest tightness symptoms, should take half-recumbent position or side-lying to relieve the symptoms, to the hospital in a timely manner to determine the cause of the disease and then treatment.