What's going on when I feel chest tightness, shortness of breath, and heart pain?

If you often feel chest tightness, shortness of breath, and heart pain, you must pay attention to it and go to the hospital in time for a more comprehensive examination. Heart disease, congenital heart disease, or coronary heart disease, as well as respiratory obstruction, tracheal stenosis, or trachea affected by external force can all cause chest tightness and heart pain.

1. Causes of chest tightness and shortness of breath

1. Heart disease: certain congenital heart diseases, rheumatic heart valve disease, coronary heart disease, and heart tumors.

2. Respiratory obstruction: tumors in the trachea and bronchus, tracheal stenosis, external pressure on the trachea (thyroid enlargement, tumors in the mediastinum.

3. Lung diseases: emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, atelectasis, pulmonary infarction, and pneumothorax.

4. Psychological factors: mainly caused by unpleasant emotions such as depression and frustrated sexual desire.

2. Preventive measures for chest tightness and shortness of breath

If no organic lesions are found, you should strengthen physical exercise, learn to adjust your mentality, and keep a good mood to effectively treat chest tightness and shortness of breath.

1. Prevent colds and timely prevent and treat various respiratory diseases. For example, if you have repeated colds, you can regularly inject immunoglobulin or immunoglobulin G, and take some lung-nourishing Chinese medicine appropriately to enhance the body's disease resistance.

2. In warm and windy weather, go out to bask in the sun, take a walk, do some physical activities within your ability, or enhance your lung function. It is best to do 30 minutes of breathing exercises and deep breathing exercises every day. This can not only promote bronchial ventilation function, but also enhance the elasticity of alveoli and blood supply.

3. Pay attention to hygiene, proper nutrition, quit smoking, avoid staying in dusty places, and avoid contact with smoke and toxic gases that irritate the trachea and bronchi.