It's hot and I feel anxious. What's going on?

Hot weather, in addition to causing heatstroke, can also lead to a variety of symptoms, such as chest tightness, palpitations, dizziness and other symptoms. Because hot weather is often the onset of low blood pressure, people's hearts cannot be supplied with blood, and blood from the lower limbs cannot return to the heart, which can cause discomfort in the heart. Next, I will tell you specifically why you feel chest tightness in hot weather? And the specific cause of chest tightness.

Chest tightness in hot weather is a very common phenomenon, which has many reasons, such as insufficient yang in the body, lack of oxygen, poor air circulation, and lung disease, etc. Guidance: From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, spring, summer, autumn, and winter correspond to the four important internal organs of the liver, heart, lungs, and kidneys; summer is connected to the heart, and when the weather is hot in summer, a person's qi and blood are dissipated to the outside, resulting in insufficient yang in the body, and symptoms such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, and sweating are prone to occur. Chest tightness is a subjective feeling, that is, breathing is labored or there is not 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. The causes of chest tightness in people of different ages are different, the treatments are different, and the consequences are also 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.

Such as: 1. Respiratory obstruction: tumors in the trachea and bronchi, tracheal stenosis, external pressure on the trachea (thyroid enlargement, tumors in the mediastinum); 2. Lung diseases: emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, atelectasis, pulmonary infarction, pneumothorax; 3. Heart diseases: certain congenital heart diseases, rheumatic valvular heart disease, coronary heart disease, heart tumors; 4. Diaphragmatic lesions: diaphragmatic bulging, diaphragmatic paralysis; 5. Fluid metabolism and acid-base imbalance, etc. Pathological chest tightness can occur suddenly or slowly. Most of the sudden occurrences are due to acute traumatic or spontaneous pneumothorax, acute asthma, acute foreign body in the trachea, acute heart attack, acute pulmonary infarction, etc. Chronic chest tightness is a condition in which symptoms gradually worsen as the disease progresses. Chest tightness in children is often caused by congenital heart disease or mediastinal tumors; chest tightness in young people is often caused by spontaneous pneumothorax, mediastinal tumors, or rheumatic heart valve disease; chest tightness in the elderly is often caused by emphysema, coronary heart disease, etc.