What causes women's chest tightness, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties

In today's social life, most women will experience chest tightness. They feel that this is due to the stuffy weather or the environment they live in is too closed, so they are a little uncomfortable. So many people don’t care too much about it. They think it is just a temporary problem and it will get better after a while. However, little did he know that his condition would only get worse as time went on, causing him to have difficulty breathing and put him in a painful situation. So what causes chest tightness, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing in women?

Chest tightness is a subjective feeling of difficulty breathing or not having enough air. Those with mild symptoms will feel nothing serious, but those with severe symptoms will feel uncomfortable, as if a stone is pressing on their chest, and even have difficulty breathing. It may be a functional manifestation of the body's organs, or it may be one of the earliest symptoms of disease in the human body. Chest tightness and difficulty breathing. People of different ages have chest tightness, the causes, treatments and consequences are different.

1. Functional chest tightness (i.e. chest tightness without organic disease): Staying in a room with closed doors and windows and poor air circulation for a long time, or encountering some unpleasant things, or even having quarrels or disputes with others, or being in a climate with low air pressure, often causes feelings of chest tightness and fatigue. After a short rest, opening windows for ventilation or going outside to breathe fresh air, relaxing your mind and regulating your emotions, you will soon return to normal. This type of chest tightness can be said to be functional chest tightness, and there is no need to worry or seek treatment.

2. Pathological chest tightness (i.e. chest tightness caused by organic lesions): Chest tightness can not only be physiological, but can also be caused by diseases in certain organs in the body, i.e. pathological chest tightness. like:

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

2. Lung diseases: emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, atelectasis, pulmonary infarction, pneumothorax;

3. Heart disease: certain congenital heart diseases, rheumatic heart valve disease, coronary heart disease, heart tumors;

4. Diaphragmatic diseases: diaphragmatic swelling and diaphragmatic paralysis;

5. Disturbance of fluid metabolism and acid-base balance, etc.

The main symptoms of asthma attacks are cough, shortness of breath, chest tightness, wheezing, and difficulty breathing. There are often precursor symptoms before the onset of the disease, such as nasal itching, sneezing, runny nose, dry cough, and usually enhanced skills of the main pulmonary artery. You can go to the Jianqi Family Respiratory Care Forum to learn about asthma.

After reading the above introduction about what causes chest tightness, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing in women, I think everyone should have some understanding. There are many causes of chest tightness and other diseases, and there are no definite limitations. But the only thing that remains unchanged is that we must identify the cause of the disease as soon as possible and take effective treatment measures. Otherwise, the longer we delay, the worse the condition will be, and the result will often be more harm than good.