Painful symptoms of pleurisy usually occur on the affected side of the chest wall, mainly due to the friction between the pleura of the dirty layer and the pleura of the wall layer, which may persist, or be triggered or aggravated by deep breathing, coughing, sneezing, and prompt medical consultation is recommended.
Pleurisy is an inflammatory disease that occurs in the pleural cavity, and chest pain is its most common symptom. If the amount of fluid is large, when the lungs are compressed, it can also induce dyspnea, chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms; if pleurisy is caused by viral infection, it can also be accompanied by fever, muscle pain, headache and other discomforts; if it is caused by tuberculosis bacillus, it can also be accompanied by fatigue, low-grade fever, night sweats and other manifestations.
Tuberculous pleurisy chest pain is mostly located in the anterior axillary line or below the posterior axillary line where the thoracic mobility is the greatest, and it is aggravated when taking a deep breath or coughing, and sometimes there may be pain in the back of the sternum, shoulder and epigastric region.
Patients with the above symptoms, should promptly seek medical treatment to improve the relevant examinations, such as blood routine, tumor markers, bacteriological examination, pleural fluid examination, X-ray, CT, ultrasound, etc., so as to clarify the cause of the disease and carry out the appropriate treatment, patients should not blindly judge on their own, so as to avoid delaying the condition.