What should I do if I feel chest tightness and shortness of breath? How to treat and prevent?

Many people experience chest tightness and shortness of breath, accompanied by difficulty breathing and wheezing. Chest tightness and shortness of breath may be caused by a bad mood or chest disease. When you experience chest tightness and shortness of breath, you should take more deep breaths and breathe fresh air to help relieve the uncomfortable symptoms. But what should you do if you feel chest tightness and shortness of breath? How to treat and prevent?

Functional chest tightness

It means that if you stay in a room with closed doors and windows and poor air circulation for a long time, or encounter some unpleasant things, or even have a quarrel or dispute with others, or are in a climate with low air pressure, you will often feel chest tightness and fatigue.

Cardiac neurosis

It is a kind of systemic neurosis with various symptoms. The most common subjective symptoms are palpitations, dyspnea, precordial pain and general fatigue. There are also manifestations such as irritability, insomnia, sweating, trembling, dizziness and nightmares.

Treatment

1. Psychosocial treatment: adjust the mentality, relax the spirit, eliminate worries, cultivate an optimistic and open-minded character, and maintain a good mood. A good mood is conducive to the coordination and unity of the nervous system and various organs and systems, so that the body's physiological metabolism is in the best state, thereby feedback-enhancing the vitality of brain cells and improving nerve function.

2. Physical exercise: Physical exercise can regulate and improve the brain's excitement 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.

3. Drug treatment: Patients with symptoms of β-receptor hypersensitivity such as palpitations, chest tightness, sweating, and long breathing can take diazepam 2.5 mg or propranolol 10 mg orally (or atenolol 12.5~25 mg 1~2 times/day).

4. Physical therapy: There are many reasons for chest tightness, including chest tightness caused by cervical spondylosis. You can use the Ainokang Chinese medicine pillow to treat cervical spondylosis, thereby treating chest tightness.

prevention

1. Prevent colds and timely prevent and treat various respiratory diseases. For example, if you have repeated colds, you can regularly inject immunoglobulin or immunoglobulin G, and take some lung-nourishing Chinese medicine appropriately to enhance the body's disease resistance.

2. In warm and windy weather, go out to bask in the sun, take a walk, do some physical activities within your ability, or enhance your lung function. It is best to do 30 minutes of breathing exercises and deep breathing exercises every day. This can not only promote bronchial ventilation function, but also enhance the elasticity of alveoli and blood supply.

3. Pay attention to hygiene, proper nutrition, quit smoking, avoid staying in dusty places, and avoid contact with smoke and toxic gases that irritate the trachea and bronchi.