What should I do if my chest hurts and it's hard to breathe?

Many people always feel uncomfortable in their chest. The feeling of chest discomfort may be caused by coronary heart disease or heart disease, myocarditis, or lung function problems, which can also cause chest discomfort. Most people who usually have chest discomfort also have difficulty breathing, and often have symptoms of coughing or difficulty breathing. You need to check whether they have taken any medications recently or have bad habits, etc.

What's wrong with my heart?

Discomfort in the chest is mostly not caused by diseases such as coronary heart disease. One of the reasons may be emotional problems. Because the competitive pressure in society is relatively high, some people have to be in a state of tension and anxiety for a long time, which can easily cause chest pain or symptoms such as chest tightness. In addition, bad habits such as long-term drinking and smoking, irregular rest, and some improper diet can all induce chest pain or chest tightness.

Regardless of whether there is a family history of coronary heart disease or not, these symptoms will often appear if you drink a lot of alcohol and stay up late in a short period of time. For those who have had recent trauma, or have incorrect sleeping posture, or often sleep on their stomachs, these can easily cause some discomfort in the chest, so you must pay attention to what the cause is and then carry out corresponding treatment.

The main causes of breathing difficulties are as follows:

1. Pulmonary dyspnea:

1) Inspiratory dyspnea - commonly seen in larynx, trachea, bronchial stenosis, etc.;

2) Expiratory dyspnea - common in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchial asthma, diffuse panbronchiolitis, etc.;

3) Mixed dyspnea - common in severe pneumonia, severe pulmonary tuberculosis, large-area pulmonary infarction, pneumothorax, extensive pleural lesions, etc.

2. Cardiac dyspnea:

Common in left and right heart failure, etc.

3. Toxic dyspnea:

Such as drug poisoning, diabetic acidosis, etc.

4. Neuropsychiatric dyspnea:

Commonly seen in patients with severe craniocerebral diseases (such as cerebral hemorrhage), hysteria, etc.

5. Hematogenous dyspnea:

Common in severe anemia, methemoglobinemia, etc.