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Symptoms of disease - pain during breathing

Pain when breathing or coughing usually indicate the pleura and pericardial area or the connection as a possible source of the pain, although the pain in the chest wall, is also likely to affect the respiratory movements, and nothing to do with heart disease do not have. Often pain localized to the left or right side and can be as blunt and sharp.



Which diseases there is pain during breathing

The main causes of pain when breathing:

1. Pain in breathing and coughing arises because of inflammation of the membrane that lines the chest cavity from the inside and covering the lungs. Dry pleurisy can arise in a variety of diseases, but most of all - with pneumonia.
Pain in the dry pleurisy decrease in the position on the affected side. Significantly limit the respiratory mobility of the corresponding half of the chest; in an unmodified percussion sound can listen weakened breath due to spare patients affected by the hand, rubbing noise of the pleura. Body temperature often subfebrile, may be chills, night sweats, weakness.

2. Restriction of movement of the chest or pain when breathing with shallow breathing is observed with the functional disorders of the costal framework or the thoracic spine (restriction of mobility), tumors of the pleura, pericarditis.

3. In the dry pericarditis the pain is worse when the breath, so the depth of respiration decreases, which exacerbates the shortness of breath. The intensity of pain during inspiration varies from slight to strong.

4. In shortening between the pleural ligaments have seen a constant cough, increasing during the conversation, the physical load, stabbing pain when breathing, running.
Between the pleural bundle formed from the merger of visceral and parietal sheets of the pleura the root part of the lung. Further, down caudal on medial the edge of the light, the link between the forks of the tendinous part of the iris and her legs. The function of ensuring springy of resistance in the caudal displacement of the diaphragm. In the presence of inflammatory process ligaments are shortened and limit the caudal offset.

5. When intercostal neuralgia in the course of intercostal space arise sharp "shooting" pain, sharply increasing in breathing.

6. From shock or compression chest may occur broken ribs. If this damaged the person feels a sharp pain when breathing.

7. Pain when breathing may also indicate the presence of thoracic osteochondrosis.

8. For lung cancer the nature of the pain varies: acute, stitching, girdle increasing when the breath, the breath. The pain may cover a certain area or one-half of the thorax is possible its irradiation in the hands, neck, belly, etc. The pain is especially intense and painful upon germination the tumor in the ribs, and spine.

9. Pain at pneumothorax are often unbearable, but sometimes prove to be moderate and, like other pleural pain, increase with the breath. Sometimes spontaneous pneumothorax can occur even without any pain.



Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain during breathing

  • Therapeutist
  • Pulmonologist
  • Neurologist
  • Family doctor


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