Pain below the left sternum

Pain below the left sternum may be caused by many diseases, so if you feel pain in your sternum, you must pay attention to it and do not take your body lightly, as this may make the disease worse. There are many reasons for pain below the left sternum. It may be caused by heart disease, pleural disease, and abdominal disease. Let’s learn about the details together.

1. What is the reason for the dull pain under the left chest?

Many times, the frequent dull pain under the left chest is not caused by any physiological reasons, but may be caused by some disease, so it must not be ignored, otherwise it will cause major hidden dangers.

1. Chest wall disease

Certain chest wall diseases may also cause patients to experience symptoms of left chest pain. Therefore, people who often have symptoms such as chest discomfort in daily life must pay special attention.

Normally, if the pain is caused by chest wall disease, it usually has the characteristics of clear and fixed location. In addition, if you observe carefully, you will find local redness, swelling, tenderness, rash, deformity, etc. Therefore, when there is dull pain in the left chest, you should first pay attention to observation.

For example, intercostal neuritis causes pain that is mainly paroxysmal and stabbing. For these patients, it is best to go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible to prevent the disease from continuing to develop.

2. Heart disease

It can be said that heart disease is the most likely disease to cause left chest pain. We can judge based on the location and position of the chest pain. Usually, pain behind the sternum is mostly a manifestation of angina pectoris.

In addition to angina pectoris, dull pain in the left chest may also be caused by other heart diseases, such as myocardial infarction, left-sided pneumonia, etc. If the chest pain radiates to the left shoulder, it can be confirmed as angina pectoris. No matter what kind of heart disease it is, once it is discovered, it should be treated actively as soon as possible.

In addition to judging whether it is a heart disease by left chest pain, we can also judge based on other symptoms in daily life, such as chest tightness and shortness of breath, teeth marks on the tongue, etc. These are common manifestations of heart disease.

3. Pleural diseases

In addition to chest wall diseases that can cause left chest pain, there are some pleural diseases that are also likely to cause symptoms of left chest pain, so patients must pay attention to this in their daily lives.

There are many common pleural diseases, such as pleurisy, spontaneous pneumothorax, etc. The incidence of these diseases is very high, and once they occur, it is difficult to cure them completely. The characteristics of these pleural diseases include chest pain, shortness of breath, cough and pain.

Patients with these conditions often experience more severe pain when breathing or coughing, and often have difficulty breathing. People with these symptoms must pay special attention and go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.

4. Celiac disease

Suffering from certain abdominal diseases can also easily cause us to experience dull pain in the left chest. Common abdominal organ diseases include subphrenic abscess, acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, etc.

In addition, some chest trauma is also a common cause, such as rib fractures and a history of chest trauma, which can cause the patient to experience worsening chest pain when breathing and coughing.