Why do women feel chest pain and shortness of breath?

In today's social life, we are always troubled by various diseases and their complications. Some diseases may affect people's eating habits and sleep quality at the mildest level, or even destroy people's physical and mental health and even lead to death at the most serious level. For women, chest pain and shortness of breath are not only annoying, but also painful. The feeling of suffocation was unbearable for them. So what causes chest pain and shortness of breath in women?

1. Pleurisy with pain in the left chest.

If chest pain worsens when you take a deep breath or cough, it indicates pleural inflammation, which is more common in patients with tuberculosis or lung tumors. Patients with pleuritic pain may press their hands on one side of the chest wall, avoid deep breathing, or suppress coughing. Over time, chest pain may move from one location to another. In addition, if the lung tumor spreads to the chest wall or ribs, it will cause persistent, intractable chest pain, which can usually be diagnosed by a chest X-ray or chest CT scan.

2. Pneumothorax with pain in the left chest.

Some young people suddenly experienced chest pain when lifting heavy objects. X-ray examination revealed that it was "pneumothorax". This type of spontaneous pneumothorax is more common in young and middle-aged people. Typical symptoms include sudden chest pain, accompanied by chest tightness, shortness of breath, cough, and sometimes shortness of breath, a feeling of suffocation, irritability, cyanosis, sweating, shock, etc.

Nature and characteristics of chest pain:

3. Characteristics of chest pain

Chest pain caused by chest wall diseases is clearly localized and may be accompanied by redness, swelling, tenderness, rash, and deformity.

4. Nature of chest pain

The chest pain caused by intercostal neuritis is paroxysmal, stabbing pain. Esophagitis causes burning pain. Tearing pain is common in dissecting aneurysms.

5. Location of chest pain

Pain behind the sternum is common with angina pectoris. Left anterior chest pain can also be angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, or left-sided pneumonia. Chest pain radiating to the left shoulder is often angina pectoris.

2. What causes common chest pain and tightness?

1. Pleural diseases

Such as pleurisy, pneumothorax, lung infection, pulmonary infarction, lung tumor, esophageal disease, mediastinal tumor, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, etc. The chest pain caused by these diseases is related to breathing and coughing. The chest pain worsens with deep breathing and coughing, often accompanied by difficulty breathing and chest pain located on the side of the lesion.

2. Cardiovascular disease

The most common ones are angina pectoris and myocardial infarction, followed by pericarditis. This type of chest pain often manifests as compressive, stuffy, or even tearing pain in the precordial area and behind the sternum. It often radiates to the left shoulder, neck and inner side of the left arm, and is accompanied by shock symptoms in severe cases.

3. Chest wall disease

Chest pain can be caused by chest wall contusion, rib fracture, costochondritis, intercostal neuritis, dermatitis, myositis, intermuscular neuralgia, herpes zoster, esophagitis, etc. Herpes zoster causes severe chest pain that runs along the ribs, and dense small blisters appear on the skin after 1-2 days.

4. Organ lesions

Such as subphrenic abscess, acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, etc.

5. Chest trauma

It is common in cases of rib fractures, a history of chest trauma, and chest pain that worsens with breathing or coughing.

6. Spinal diseases

The spinal nerves and autonomic nerves that originate from the cervical and thoracic spinal cord can send branches to the cell wall, cell membrane, diaphragm, heart and other parts. When the cervical and thoracic vertebrae are slightly dislocated, stretched, or inflammatory due to trauma, strain, or exposure to cold, the related spinal nerves or autonomic nerves may be stimulated, causing chest pain. This type of chest pain symptom often worsens with the worsening of spinal lesions and eases with the alleviation of spinal diseases.

The causes of chest pain are complex and diverse, and should be carefully identified in clinical practice to avoid misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis.

After reading the above introduction about what causes chest pain and shortness of breath in women, I think everyone should have some understanding. Chest pain is a sign of illness and also indicates that there is a problem in some part of the body that needs prompt treatment. We should pay good attention to our bodies, check our physical health regularly, identify the causes of illness as early as possible and take targeted improvement and treatment measures.