What is the cause of chest tightness, chest pain and excessive sputum

I always hear many people say that they experience chest tightness, chest pain, and excessive phlegm when they wake up in the morning. Some people who don’t understand them just think that it may be because they didn’t get enough rest and don’t take it seriously at all. There are often a lot of troubles in the later stages. What everyone should remember is that no matter what symptoms appear in the body, there are certain reasons, and everyone also needs to understand the situation of chest tightness, chest pain and excessive sputum. So, what causes chest tightness, chest pain and excessive sputum?

Chest tightness, chest pain and excessive sputum are likely to be caused by chronic pharyngitis. Chest tightness and chest pain may also be caused by some problems with your heart. Some people with coronary heart disease or heart disease will experience chest tightness and chest pain. In addition to these two conditions, other heart-related diseases may also cause such symptoms.

Chronic pharyngitis

Chronic pharyngitis is more common in adults, but can also occur in children. Systemic symptoms are not obvious, and local symptoms are the main ones. The symptoms of various types of chronic pharyngitis are roughly similar and varied, such as discomfort in the throat, foreign body sensation, difficulty in coughing up pharyngeal secretions, itching, burning, dryness or irritation in the throat, and may also be slight pain. Because the posterior pharyngeal wall is usually adhered to with thick secretions due to chronic inflammation of the pharynx, and because of lesions in the nose, sinuses, and nasopharynx that cause mouth breathing at night, irritating coughs and nausea often occur in the morning. Frequent swallowing may occur due to the foreign body sensation in the throat. People with little pharyngeal secretions that are difficult to cough up often have habitual dry coughs and clearing the throat to expectorate. If you cough or clear your throat hard, it may cause bleeding of the pharyngeal mucosa, resulting in blood in the secretions.

1. Chronic simple pharyngitis

Examination revealed chronic congestion of the pharyngeal mucosa, varicose small blood vessels, dark red color, and a small amount of viscous secretions on the surface.

2. Chronic hypertrophic pharyngitis

Examination of the pharynx may reveal multiple granular follicular protrusions on the posterior pharyngeal wall, which appear chronically congested and sometimes fuse together. Cystic white spots may form on the tops of the lymphatic granules, and yellow-white exudate may be seen when they rupture. The lateral pharyngeal cord lymphoid tissue may thicken and become cord-like.

3. Chronic atrophic pharyngitis or chronic dry pharyngitis

There are dry crusts on the pharynx and bad breath. Examination showed that the pharyngeal mucosa was dry and thin, and in severe cases, it was scaly and shiny. It may be covered with purulent dry crusts, and if the lesions extend to the Eustachian tube, it may cause tinnitus and hearing loss. Spreading to the larynx, it can cause hoarseness.

4. Reflux pharyngitis

Pharyngeal examination is similar to that for chronic simple and hypertrophic pharyngitis. Laryngopharyngeal reflux may be accompanied by vocal cord nodules, vocal cord polyps, and hoarseness.

The above symptoms are often aggravated by excessive use of the voice, sudden changes in climate, or changes in ambient temperature and humidity, especially atrophic and dry pharyngitis.

There are many causes of chest tightness, chest pain and excessive sputum. The above article only briefly introduces one of the causes, which may be caused by chronic pharyngitis. However, you need to tell you that the cause of chest tightness, chest pain and excessive sputum is not only chronic pharyngitis. So I hope that friends will learn about it for the sake of their health so that they can ensure their own health.