Chest tightness and congestion may be caused by physiological factors, such as symptoms persist for a long time, but also to consider is due to pleurisy, coronary heart disease and other diseases.
1. Physiological factors: for example, in the emotional over-excitement, anxiety, irritability, may suddenly cause insufficient oxygen supply to the heart, easy to feel very tight chest. Staying in a closed and airless environment for a long time will also have similar symptoms, improve the environment in time and regulate the mood, the symptoms will be relieved on their own.
2. Pleurisy: mainly due to the pleura by inflammation due to infection, such as inflammation does not go away, resulting in pleural effusion, or inflammatory exudate fluid, causing significant compression of lung tissue, will produce chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms.
3. Coronary heart disease: when coronary heart disease causes myocardial ischemia, myocardial hypoxia, or induces angina pectoris, you may feel tightness in the chest, and it is accompanied by obvious chest pain and shortness of breath.
For chest tightness and congestion symptoms, it is recommended to observe first, if the symptoms persist for a long time and are accompanied by other abnormal reactions, it is necessary to consult the cardiovascular internal medicine, respiratory medicine, analyze the cause of the disease through professional examination, and then carry out treatment.