What causes chest tightness and shortness of breath in the morning?

I believe everyone has experienced chest tightness. For example, when you quarrel with others, you will feel chest tightness when you are angry. So what causes chest tightness and shortness of breath when you wake up in the morning?

Causes of chest tightness and shortness of breath

Chest tightness and shortness of breath is a feeling of chest tightness and difficulty breathing. Mild cases may be neurotic, that is, caused by the loss of regulation of heart and lung functions, and there is no obvious organic lesion diagnosed by Western medicine; severe cases are caused by diseases of the heart and lungs, which may be caused by coronary heart disease, myocardial insufficiency, or chronic bronchitis, emphysema, cor pulmonale, etc., and there is obvious organic lesion diagnosed by Western medicine.

For internal medicine physicians, "chest tightness and shortness of breath" can be mild or severe, ranging from minor general illnesses such as gastroesophageal reflux disease and respiratory tract infection to severe and potentially fatal illnesses such as myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax, and upper gastrointestinal tract rupture. The diagnosis of these diseases can be preliminarily differentiated after a detailed medical history, but the final diagnosis still requires the help of Western medical examinations, so extreme caution must be exercised in clinical practice.

I believe that after reading the above content, everyone has a certain understanding of the causes of chest tightness, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing in summer. Generally speaking, most symptoms of chest tightness, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing in summer are related to the heart or respiratory system. Friends who experience this should go to the hospital for treatment in time.

Chest tightness is a subjective feeling of difficulty breathing or not having 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 lesions):

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, will often cause 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 also be caused by diseases in certain organs in the body, that is, pathological chest tightness. like:

1. Respiratory obstruction: tumors in the trachea and bronchus, tracheal stenosis, and external pressure on the trachea (thyroid enlargement, tumors in the mediastinum);

2. Lung diseases: emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, atelectasis, pulmonary infarction, pneumothorax;

3. Heart disease: certain congenital heart diseases, rheumatic heart valve disease, coronary heart disease, heart tumors;

4. Diaphragmatic diseases: diaphragmatic swelling and diaphragmatic paralysis;

5. Disturbance of fluid metabolism and acid-base balance, 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 mostly indicates congenital heart disease or mediastinal tumors; chest tightness in young people mostly indicates spontaneous pneumothorax, mediastinal tumors, or rheumatic heart valvular disease; chest tightness in the elderly mostly indicates emphysema, coronary heart disease, etc.

In short, chest tightness must be taken seriously to avoid delaying necessary treatment. You should go to the hospital for chest X-ray, electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, blood biochemistry and pulmonary function tests so that the clinician can further confirm the diagnosis.