What's the matter with the pain in the right chest

There are many reasons for right chest pain, which should be divided into whether it occurs during menstruation or pregnancy. If it is not during these two stages, it may be caused by breast hyperplasia or pectoral muscle injury, or it may be caused by diseases such as pleurisy. However, during menstruation and pregnancy, the development of the breasts can cause chest nerve pain, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. Female friends should learn to distinguish between physiological and pathological reasons.

What is the pain on the right side of my chest?

1. Right chest pain caused by chest muscle strain. Chest muscle strain usually occurs after carrying heavy objects. The pain is severe when doing exercises such as "chest expansion". At this time, you can apply some blood-activating external medicine. If we expand our chest excessively, stretch our arms to pick up objects from high places, carry heavy objects, or are hit by external forces, it may cause damage to the pectoralis major and intercostal muscles, thereby causing pain. This degree of pain is generally mild, so you don't need to be too nervous, just pay attention to rest.

2. Chest pain caused by disease

Pleurisy, also known as pleurisy, is often accompanied by symptoms such as cough, fatigue, loss of appetite, and high fever. You need to go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment. Lung infection needs to be diagnosed based on the patient's medical history and whether symptoms such as chest tightness, shortness of breath and excessive sputum occur. In addition, a chest X-ray can be done to check the infection status.

3. Chest pain caused by lumbar disc herniation

Degenerative protrusion of the thoracic intervertebral disc, thickening and ossification of the joint capsule and ligaments often lead to narrowing and deformation of the nerve channels, which can cause inflammation of the intercostal nerves and produce pain. Other lesions that may affect the intercostal nerves include thoracic tuberculosis, thoracic fracture or dislocation, spinal or spinal cord tumors, ankylosing spondylitis, and rib, mediastinal, and pleural lesions. The pain of herpes zoster intercostal neuralgia is often severe.

4. Chest pain caused by intercostal neuralgia

Intercostal neuralgia is not common, but it sometimes occurs. When you are particularly tired or sleep too deeply, one posture may put pressure on a certain rib for too long. Sleeping with the window open may cause one of the intercostal muscles to get cold. When doing a certain movement, the intercostal muscles are stretched and injured, which can also cause chest pain.

5. Chest pain caused by anxiety

The symptoms of anxiety chest pain are characterized by pain that lasts for hours, days, years, or even more than ten years. The pain may be anywhere throughout the chest, and patients usually feel stuffy. When the patient is still, such as sitting, lying down or not working, he or she begins to feel chest discomfort. Not when working or exercising. Patients may experience a variety of symptoms such as dizziness, sweating, nausea, shortness of breath, intolerance to heat or cold, numbness in the hands, feet or lips, etc.

How to treat right chest pain

1. Antibiotics

Anti-tuberculosis drug therapy is suitable for the treatment of tuberculous (dry or exudative) pleurisy. Isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol and streptomycin are used alternately, with a total treatment course of 6 to 9 months. Non-tuberculous pleurisy should be treated with appropriate drugs based on the primary disease (such as infection, tumor, etc.). Patients with purulent pleurisy or tuberculous empyema with infection are treated with penicillin.

2. Relieve pain

Take aspirin, indomethacin, or codeine by mouth.

3. Thoracentesis

It is suitable for patients with exudative pleurisy with large amounts of pleural effusion, obvious breathing difficulties or effusion that is not absorbed after long-term treatment. The amount of fluid drawn each time should not exceed 1000 ml, 2 to 3 times a week.

4. Hormone therapy

When used in combination with anti-tuberculosis drugs, it has a positive therapeutic effect on eliminating systemic toxic symptoms, promoting absorption of effusion, and preventing pleural thickening and adhesion. Prednisone can be taken orally. When systemic symptoms improve and the effusion is significantly absorbed, the dosage can be gradually reduced. The medication should be used for 4 to 6 weeks.