What is the cause of bad weather and chest tightness?

Chest tightness is a subjective feeling, that is, difficulty or insufficient breathing. Light as if nothing had happened, heavy feeling uncomfortable, as if being pressed by a stone in the chest, and even breathing difficulties. It may be the functional manifestation of body organs, or it may be one of the earliest symptoms of human diseases. People of different ages have different reasons for chest tightness, different treatment methods and different consequences.

1. Functional chest tightness (that is, chest tightness without organic lesions): If you stay in a room with closed doors and windows and no ventilation for a long time, or encounter some unpleasant things, or even have an argument with people, or in a low-pressure climate, you will often feel chest tightness and fatigue. After a short rest, open the window for ventilation or breathe fresh air outdoors, relax and adjust your mood, and you will soon return to normal. Chest tightness like this can be said to be functional chest tightness, which does not require tension or treatment.

Second, pathological chest tightness (that is, chest tightness with organic lesions): Chest tightness can be not only physiological, but also caused by diseases of certain organs in the body, that is, pathological chest tightness. For example:

1. Respiratory tract obstruction: tracheobronchial tumor, tracheal stenosis, tracheal external pressure (goiter, mediastinal tumor);

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

3. Heart disease: some congenital heart diseases, rheumatic valvular heart disease, coronary heart disease and heart tumors;

4. Diaphragm diseases: diaphragm swelling, diaphragm paralysis;

5. Body fluid metabolism and acid-base imbalance.

Pathological chest tightness can occur suddenly or slowly. Most emergencies are caused by acute traumatic or spontaneous pneumothorax, acute asthma, acute heart attack caused by tracheal foreign bodies, acute lung infarction and so on. Slow chest tightness is that with the extension of the course of the disease, the symptoms gradually worsen. Chest tightness in children often suggests congenital heart disease or mediastinal tumor; Chest tightness in young people often suggests spontaneous pneumothorax, mediastinal tumor and rheumatic valvular heart disease. Chest tightness in the elderly mostly suggests emphysema and coronary heart disease.

In short, we must pay attention to chest tightness so as not to delay the necessary treatment. You should go to the hospital for chest X-ray, electrocardiogram, echocardiography, blood biochemical examination, and determination of lung function, so that clinicians can make further diagnosis.