Chest pain occurs when one is excited, and chest pain occurs when one mentions sad things.
If you walk a few more steps, your chest will ache and you will not be able to kick your breath.
Suddenly chest pain, dizziness and cold sweat.
Is chest pain myocardial infarction? Facing chest pain, how to deal with it? Dr. Clove will teach you.
What should I do with chest pain?
The cause of chest pain can be mild or severe.
Some are not urgent and life-threatening reasons, such as gastroesophageal reflux, anxiety, extreme sadness, cold, etc.
However, other causes of sudden chest pain deserve our vigilance, such as myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, etc. These diseases directly threaten life.
It is often blind and inefficient to deal with the cause of chest pain by oneself before it is determined. Therefore, friends who hope chest pain can find out the cause first. However, it is extremely difficult for ordinary people and professional doctors to diagnose the disease only through the characteristics of chest pain.
Friends with chest pain symptoms can refer to the following treatment methods:
1. Go to the hospital in time for these situations.
If sudden chest pain has any of the following conditions at the same time, it is recommended to go to the hospital or call 120 in time:
- Chest pain accompanied by chest tightness or squeezing; Pain radiates to gums, arms, shoulders, etc. Chest pain accompanied by nausea, dizziness, sweating, heart beating or shortness of breath, etc.; Angina pectoris has been confirmed before the onset of chest pain. This time, chest pain is more severe and lasts longer than usual. Chest pain also occurs during slight exercise or rest. Chest pain is severe and there is a feeling of dying. Venous thrombosis of lower limbs has been found before chest pain attacks. After long-distance travel or sedentary, lower limb swelling and even pain occur;
2. For non-emergency situations, the reasons should be clarified as soon as possible.
When chest pain is accompanied by any of the following conditions, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible to clarify the cause of chest pain:
- Chest pain with fever, cough and yellow purulent sputum; Chest pain exists for a long time and does not disappear. Chest pain accompanied by dysphagia.
What are the causes of chest pain?
Chest includes many organs, heart, lung, esophagus, chest muscles and so on, so there are many causes of chest pain, which can be light or heavy. It is impossible to finish all the diseases in one article. Therefore, the following will talk about some more common diseases.
1. Chest Pain Caused by Anxiety Disorder
Statistics show that about 40% of people with chest pain are caused by mental and psychological reasons. At present, the more clear mental factor is anxiety disorder, which can last for several hours or even several years and may feel pain in any position of the chest. At the same time, chest pain symptoms caused by anxiety disorder often occur in sedentary and leisure time, but not during exercise and work.
The main treatment for this kind of chest pain is to adjust the mental state and need the help of psychiatrists when necessary.
2. Myocardial infarction
Everyone is familiar with myocardial infarction. Simply speaking, the heart vessels are blocked, which is a disease that easily leads to death. Statistics have found that 20% of all people who go to the hospital due to chest pain are due to acute myocardial infarction.
Diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking, obesity and other high-risk factors for myocardial infarction, and friends with these conditions should be more vigilant.
When myocardial infarction occurs, there may be chest pain, gum pain, dysphoria, heart beating, sweating, dizziness and other symptoms.
If you suspect chest pain caused by myocardial infarction, you should immediately call 120, and at the same time pay attention to keep quiet and lie flat. If there is no doctor’s advice, do not take Danshen dripping pills, nitroglycerin, aspirin and other drugs.
3. Angina
The essence of myocardial infarction and angina pectoris is cardiac vascular blockage, but the degree of blockage and disease condition are different, so the names are different.
For friends who have gone to the hospital for diagnosis of coronary heart disease and angina pectoris, if they do not pay attention after discharge, tiredness, emotional excitement, cold stimulation, smoking, etc. may further lead to cardiac ischemia, thus causing angina pectoris and chest pain again.
At the same time, the condition of coronary heart disease (stable angina pectoris) may also deteriorate, blood vessels are completely blocked, and myocardial infarction occurs.
If the duration of a certain chest pain is longer than before, the pain is more severe, and chest pain will also occur during rest, contact the attending physician or call 120 in time.
4. Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism is also a vascular blockage, and it is thrombosis that blocks blood vessels, which often comes from deep venous thrombosis of lower limbs.
The most typical realization of pulmonary embolism is chest pain, hemoptysis and dyspnea. If chest pain is accompanied by leg swelling and pain, we must be alert to this possibility.
5. Costal chondritis
Costal chondritis is divided into bacterial infection and non-bacterial infection. Most costal chondritis is not caused by bacterial infection, and the specific cause of the disease is not clear. This non-bacterial infection caused costal chondritis is called non-specific costal chondritis.
The initial manifestation of non-specific costal chondritis is chest pain, and swelling of painful parts may also occur at the same time. When diagnosing costal chondritis, X-rays, magnetic resonance and other examinations are often required. The treatment is rest, painkillers, and local sealing can be performed when pain is obvious.
6. Other diseases
In addition to the above diseases, chest pain may occur in pleurisy, pneumothorax, pleural tumor, gastroesophageal reflux, esophagitis, liver abscess, hiatal hernia, aortic dissection, blister disease and other diseases.
When it falls on individuals, the causes of chest pain vary. With the help of doctors and auxiliary examinations, it is the best policy to identify the causes of chest pain as soon as possible.
How to avoid chest pain?
Avoiding chest pain requires prevention for each disease.
Learn to adjust their psychological state to avoid excessive anxiety; Friends with [three highs] control blood sugar, blood pressure and blood lipid within the target range. Smoking friends, quit smoking; Reduce sedentary, walk more, prevent lower limb venous thrombosis…