What's the matter with holding your breath all the time

There are two types of breath holding: functional chest tightness and pathological chest tightness. Functional chest tightness is related to the quality of the air in the environment, or it may be caused by a quarrel due to a bad mood. In this case, you should ventilate, maintain a good mood, and do not quarrel with others. The other is pathological chest tightness, which may be a disease of certain organs of the body. You should go to the hospital for some examinations, such as an electrocardiogram.

You may feel shortness of breath after keeping the windows closed for a long time, which is a common situation for normal people. However, if this often causes shortness of breath and chest tightness, it is mostly a manifestation of functional chest tightness.

The occurrence of functional chest tightness generally has certain inducing factors, such as staying in a poorly ventilated room for a long time, or being in a climate with low air pressure, or encountering certain unpleasant things, or anxiety, anger, etc., which are common inducing factors.

At this time, patients often feel chest tightness, fatigue and shortness of breath. By taking deep breaths, opening windows for ventilation or going outside to breathe fresh air, relaxing your mind, adjusting your emotions, or taking a short rest, you will quickly return to normal.

These symptoms are all neurofunctional and related to psychological factors. The reason why this chest tightness is functional is that it is not caused by organic disease, and examination shows no evidence of heart, lung, bronchial, etc. diseases.

Treatment: Don’t worry too much. You should pay attention to indoor ventilation and remove the inducing factors. In addition, functional diseases can be effectively prevented and treated by adjusting your mentality, relaxing your spirit, and especially strengthening physical exercise. Through exercise, you can adjust brain function, strengthen your physical fitness, improve your cardiopulmonary function, enhance the regulatory function of the autonomic nervous system, and gradually recover from symptoms.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that if the human body has both Qi and Yin deficiency and blood stasis in the heart meridians, there will be symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, chest tightness and pain. At this time, appropriate medications should be selected under the guidance of a doctor to relieve the symptoms, such as Buchang Wenxin Granules. If you are nervous, do not get enough rest, or drink too much strong tea or coffee in your life, it will also cause panic, heart palpitations, and chest tightness. Therefore, patients should pay attention to regulating their emotions, get more rest, and eat regularly.