Drinking too much coffee can cause panic, chest tightness and shortness of breath for physiological reasons, such as autonomic dysfunction, which can generally be relieved on their own. It may also be caused by pathologic factors such as premature ventricular contractions or myocarditis, which are usually treated with medications such as oral metoprolol or verapamil.
1. Physiological factors: If you are usually under stress, irregular work and rest, and drink too much coffee, it will further lead to autonomic dysfunction, which will easily cause panic, chest tightness and shortness of breath, which can be adjusted by stopping drinking coffee, going to bed early, getting up early and relaxing your mood.
2. Pathologic factors:
(1) premature ventricular contractions: the caffeine contained in coffee can stimulate the autonomic nervous system, increase myocardial oxygen consumption, cause the heart burden to increase, leading to premature ventricular contractions, resulting in panic, chest tightness and shortness of breath symptoms, usually oral metoprolol and other drugs for treatment.
(2) myocarditis: due to autoimmune overfunction and other factors caused by myocardial limited or diffuse inflammatory reaction, coffee drinking will lead to panic, chest tightness and shortness of breath symptoms worsening, generally through drug treatment, such as oral acyclovir or furosemide.
Drinking too much coffee will panic chest tightness and shortness of breath may also be caused by coronary heart disease, if the symptoms are serious and can not be relieved, you need to actively go to the regular hospital to consult a professional doctor, under the guidance of the doctor’s instructions to comply with the doctor’s instructions, do not self-medication, in order to avoid delaying the condition.