I work the night shift, I feel chest tightness and shortness of breath every day, and I have been thinking about what to do if I can't sleep!

1, the inspiratory center has been suppressed. Under normal circumstances, the human body completes the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide through uniform breathing and inhalation in the lungs. However, sometimes due to the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the lungs, it stimulates the excitement of the inspiratory center, which intensifies inhalation, produces short-term deep inhalation, and then appears the phenomenon of long-term breathing, which is a normal physiological phenomenon.

2. When you work at your desk, you will feel suffocated and short of breath because you bow your head and breathe. When you stand up to relieve depression, there will be a compensatory phenomenon of deep breathing.

3. When people are highly concentrated on their work, their sitting posture is not good. Because they are in a superficial state for a long time, alveolar ventilation is not enough. At this time, deep breathing is the compensation for shallow breathing.

4. Obese people with more abdominal fat are prone to shortness of breath because the upper and lower activities of the diaphragm are restricted, which affects the respiratory function of the lungs.

Some people are depressed and in a bad mood because of overthinking, and sometimes they suppress the respiratory center. When the respiratory center returns to normal, they will take a deep breath unconsciously, which is the compensation between brain excitement and inhibition.

It is worth reminding that shortness of breath will disappear after a short time. But if it is pathological shortness of breath, we should pay attention to it, because shortness of breath is one of the symptoms of rheumatic heart disease.