Throat blockage feeling chest tightness and breath holding may be mental factors, but also may be the manifestation of certain diseases symptoms, such as inflammation of the throat, reflux pharyngitis, laryngeal edema and other causes.
1. Spiritual factors: if the patient is often anxious, depressed, mentally overstressed, may feel tightness in the chest, the feeling of throat blockage, generally through the regulation of emotions, release the pressure, most can be improved.
2. Disease factors:
(1) Pharyngeal inflammation: such as acute epiglottitis, parapharyngeal space infection, tonsillitis, etc., due to bacterial, viral and other infections caused by inflammatory reaction, which can lead to local mucous membrane or tissue congestion and edema, appearing throat blockage feeling, chest tightness, breathlessness and other occurrences.
(2) Reflux pharyngitis: due to the reflux of stomach acid and pepsin into the throat, resulting in chronic congestion and edema of the mucous membrane of the pharynx, which can also lead to throat congestion, chest tightness and breathlessness.
(3) Infectious diseases of the lungs: acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, lung abscess, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in the acute stage of the attack will feel chest tightness and breathlessness, throat blockage.
(4) Heart disease: congenital heart disease, coronary heart disease, etc., resulting in insufficient blood supply to the heart, there will be chest tightness and breathlessness, and always feel blocked in the throat area and other symptoms.
Throat blockage feeling chest tightness and breathlessness can also be seen in laryngeal edema, laryngeal tumors and other diseases, therefore, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible to find out the cause of the disease after standardized diagnosis and treatment.