The presence of vague pain in the lungs can be seen for many reasons, mainly due to infectious and non-infectious factors.
Clinically, if a patient feels vague pain in his or her lungs, the first consideration is some inflammatory response in the lungs, including both infectious and non-infectious factors. The main infectious factors are viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, chlamydia, and rickettsia. Non-infectious factors are mainly seen in the inhalation of irritating odors, such as sulfur dioxide, ammonia and smoke. Lung cancer can also have the symptom of vague pain. If you have chronic vague lung pain for a long time, especially if you are a smoker, you need to go to the hospital for CT examination to exclude lung cancer. In addition, lesions of abdominal organs can also cause chest pain, so the appearance of chest pain, which is a common manifestation of many diseases, should be distinguished, and attention should be paid to the symptoms and signs of the primary disease. In addition, it can also be seen in some plant nerve disorders, and intercostal neuralgia causes intercostal neuralgia with symptoms of occult lung pain.
The mechanism by which the above pain occurs is stimulation of sensation in the chest by various physical, chemical, and inflammatory factors, and nerve fibers produce nociceptive impulses that travel to the nociceptive centers in the cerebral cortex, producing pulmonary pain.