Upper chest pain and burning sensation can be seen in the digestive system, cardiovascular system, respiratory system and a variety of other diseases, can not directly determine the cause of the disease, need to go to the hospital to improve the examination.
1. Digestive system diseases: reflux esophagitis, acute and chronic gastritis, gastrointestinal ulcers can cause pain in the upper chest, burning sensation, more common, you need to go to the hospital to complete the relevant examinations, such as gastroenteroscopy to further confirm the diagnosis, taking acidic gastric medication for symptomatic treatment.
2. Cardiovascular diseases: angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases, in addition to upper chest pain, often accompanied by symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath, should be improved as soon as possible to the hospital electrocardiogram and other related examinations, coronary arteriography, if necessary, to clarify the diagnosis of active treatment.
3. Respiratory diseases: Pneumonia, pleural effusion, etc. can also have upper chest pain, need to improve chest radiographs, chest CT and other tests to further confirm the diagnosis.
4. Other diseases: acute mastitis, breast abscess, autonomic dysfunction and other diseases can also cause burning sensation in the chest.
Therefore, if you have burning sensation in the upper chest, you should go to a regular hospital to investigate the cause of the disease and treat the symptoms, rather than self-medicating, in order to avoid delays.