Why does my heart suddenly hurt?

Heart disease has become one of the major diseases that affect people's health because modern people's bad living habits have brought great negative impacts on the heart. This causes the heart to age prematurely and the pathogenic factors increase greatly. Heart disease is the most common manifestation. Heart disease can cause great pain to patients. For example, many patients will experience heart pain from time to time. Let’s take a look at what causes sudden heart pain.

1. Unstable angina: Unstable angina (acute coronary insufficiency; pre-infarction angina; deteriorating angina; intermediate syndrome) is characterized by progressive increase in angina symptoms, new onset of rest or nocturnal angina, or prolonged duration of angina.

2. Dull pain in the precordial area: Pain in the precordial area is mainly seen in the fibrin exudation stage of the inflammatory changes of acute pericarditis. There are no pain nerves on the visceral and parietal inner surfaces of the pericardium, but pain fibers of the phrenic nerve are distributed on the outer surface of the parietal layer below the level of the fifth or sixth intercostal space. Therefore, pain only occurs when the lesion spreads to this part of the pericardium or the nearby pleura, mediastinum or diaphragm. Precordial pain is often aggravated by changes in body position, deep breathing, coughing, swallowing, lying down, especially when raising the legs or lying on the left side, and relieved when sitting or leaning forward. The pain is usually localized under the sternum or in front of the heart, often radiating to the left shoulder, back, neck or upper abdomen, and occasionally to the mandible, left forearm and hand.

3. Dull pain in the pit of the stomach: People often call the pain in the pit of the stomach epigastric pain. The pain in this area mostly comes from stomach and duodenal diseases. In addition to the stomach and duodenum, organs such as the gallbladder, pancreas, left lobe of the liver, common bile duct and heart are all close to or adjacent to the heart. Pathologies of these organs can also cause "stomach pain".

【Western medicine】

Western medicine treatment is symptomatic.

1. When taking painkillers, you can add prednisone to reduce inflammation and relieve pain.

2. Antiviral drugs. 0.1g of Virulin, 3 times a day.

3. For local application, use novocaine and prednisolone for blockade.

Auxiliary treatment: Eat more foods such as leeks, oranges, dog meat, red beans, etc. These foods have auxiliary therapeutic effects of relaxing muscles and tendons and relieving pain. You can massage the area several times a day and use physical therapy methods such as electric heating and magnetic wave lamps, infrared tubes, etc.