What is intercostal neuritis?

What is intercostal neuritis? When many friends first hear about this disease, they feel very unfamiliar with it. They don’t know what kind of disease it is or why they suffer from this disease. This is mainly because intercostal neuritis is not common in our lives, so it is normal that people do not know about it. In order to give you a detailed understanding of this disease, we will introduce to you in detail what intercostal neuritis is.

What is intercostal neuritis?

In fact, intercostal neuritis is a condition in which the nerves surrounding the ribs are diseased, and the main symptom is pain. However, due to people's lack of knowledge about intercostal neuritis, even if they suffer from this disease, they will not know it and may mistakenly believe that it is caused by other reasons. Experts say that the so-called intercostal nerves are nerves that run along the chest ribs, from the back through the flanks to the front of the chest. Intercostal neuralgia is an intense pain that occurs in a semicircular shape along this nerve through the chest and abdomen.

If severe pain occurs from the chest to the side abdomen or from the back to the side abdomen, you will feel unbearable pain when turning around, laughing, taking a deep breath, or yawning. This is intercostal neuralgia.

At present, Western medicine has no specific treatment for intercostal neuralgia caused by unknown reasons, and mostly uses symptomatic treatments such as painkillers, which can only temporarily relieve symptoms and cannot fundamentally solve the problem.

There is a painful mass and tenderness over the costal cartilage. Also known as Tietze's disease. It is more common in people aged 20 to 40 years old, often at the junction of the 2nd and/or 3rd costal cartilage and sternum, and occasionally at other ribs or sternoclavicular joints. Most of the lesions are in one place. The cause may be related to viral infection or trauma. The course of the disease may last for several hours or days, but it may relapse and usually heal itself within a few months, but in some cases it may last for several years. Commonly used treatments include hot compresses, analgesics, local injections of prednisolone acetate, and sometimes oral administration of Virulin.

After knowing what intercostal neuritis is, if you have similar symptoms of this disease in your daily life, please go to the hospital for diagnosis in time, especially when you have chest pain for no reason, you should pay attention to see if you have this disease. There is currently no effective treatment for intercostal neuritis, so prevention is the most important thing.