Pressing pain above the left chest may be due to rib fracture, costochondritis, pleurisy and other diseases, patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions for drug treatment, physical therapy, etc., and if necessary, also need to carry out surgical treatment.
1. Rib fracture: Usually, patients without displacement need to rest in bed and take ibuprofen, diclofenac sodium and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pain relief as prescribed by the doctor. Patients with displacement, early in the doctor’s guidance can also be taken to the chest wall external fixation, if the fracture displacement is obvious, it is also necessary to carry out surgical treatment, the use of stainless steel wire fixation suture.
2. Costal chondritis: patients can take the above non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug treatment as prescribed by the doctor, if the pain is obvious, it can also be injected into the cartilage periosteum with procaine, lidocaine and other steroid hormone treatment. In case of purulent costochondritis, anti-infection treatment is also needed, and commonly used drugs include levofloxacin and cefixime. If the condition is serious and drug treatment is ineffective, surgery is also an option.
3. Pleurisy: patients often appear chest tightness, chest pain, cough, fever and other symptoms, if it is caused by bacterial infection, patients need to comply with medical advice to use penicillin, metronidazole and other antibiotic treatment, and tuberculosis pleurisy patients, you need to use rifampicin, isoniazid and other anti-tuberculosis drug treatment.
In addition to the above diseases, it may also be due to pneumothorax, pericarditis, coronary artery disease and other conditions, it is recommended that the patient after the appearance of the above symptoms, to clarify the cause of the active treatment.