What causes chest tightness and shortness of breath?

Chest tightness and shortness of breath are symptoms, some of which are caused by organic diseases, such as heart disease, heart failure or pleural effusion, etc., which may cause these symptoms. You must pay attention to correct treatment and strengthen exercise to improve your body's resistance.

1. Chest tightness caused by organic reasons:

One is cardiac chest tightness, such as chest tightness caused by various heart diseases and heart failure;

The second is pulmonary chest tightness, which is more common in bronchial asthma, pleural effusion, emphysema, etc. Chest tightness without pathological or organic cause is called functional chest tightness.

2. Characteristics of neurofunctional chest tightness

Patients feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, and subjectively feel that there is not enough air and breathing is not smooth. They often breathe like sighing and feel comfortable after exhaling a long breath. Sometimes they are also accompanied by palpitations, stabbing pain in the precordial area, as well as neurological symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, confusion, and insomnia. Symptoms are often triggered or aggravated by mental factors. Patients often feel that their symptoms are obvious, but no organic lesions are found in electrocardiogram, cardiac ultrasound, chest X-ray examination, etc.

3. Treatment:

Psychotherapy:

That is, adjust your mentality, relax your spirit, and eliminate worries. Since it is a neurological functional symptom, there is no need to worry too much. After mental conditioning, strengthening physical fitness, or necessary rest and drug treatment, it will gradually improve and heal.

Physical exercise:

Physical exercise can regulate and improve the brain's excitation and inhibition processes and adjust brain functions. In addition, exercise can significantly change a person's mood. Long-term exercise can enhance physical fitness, improve cardiovascular function, enhance the regulatory function of the autonomic nervous system, and restore autonomic nervous function.