Shortness of breath and chest pain may be caused by emotional upset, angina pectoris, myocarditis, pneumonia and other factors.
1. Emotional upset: due to the usual mood swings, easy to sulk and other factors lead to the patient is prone to blood pressure rise and lead to shortness of breath, chest pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression and other symptoms.
2. Angina pectoris: mainly due to coronary atherosclerosis leading to myocardial ischemia due to insufficient oxygen supply to the myocardium. Mostly seen in middle-aged and old people over 40 years old, clinical manifestations of chest pain (pain like suffocation) accompanied by palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, dizziness and so on.
3. Myocarditis: Inflammatory reaction of the myocardium occurs mostly due to infectious factors such as viruses, bacteria and non-infectious factors such as drugs and poisons. Most patients do not have obvious symptoms, but they will show symptoms of viral infection such as fever, headache, nausea and vomiting one week before the onset of the disease. Some symptomatic patients will show chest pain, shortness of breath, palpitation, chest tightness, dyspnea and other symptoms.
4. Pneumonia: mainly caused by pathogenic microorganisms infection leads to end airways, alveoli, interstitial lung (bronchial wall surrounding tissue) inflammatory reaction. Clinical manifestations include fever, chills, cough, sputum with chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, shortness of breath, loss of appetite and so on.
In addition, there are other causes can cause shortness of breath and chest pain, it is recommended that you should go to the hospital in time for examination, to clarify the cause of the disease, and then follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment.