What Is the Connection Between Bronchitis and Chest Pain?

Cough with chest pain is common in pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchial cancer, and spontaneous pneumothorax.

Cough with chest pain

Cough with chest pain is common in pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchial cancer, and spontaneous pneumothorax.

Affected area

chest

Related diseases

Pneumonia pneumothorax acute trachea-bronchitis

Related symptoms

Dyspnea cough cough with clubbing fingers

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Respiratory Medicine

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Infectious, non-infectious respiratory disease or chest wall disease.

1. Spontaneous pneumothorax chest pain is a sudden occurrence, accompanied by dyspnea, cough, tightness, and even severe conditions such as cyanosis and shock.

2, pleurisy is tingling, the ribs with the largest expansion of the chest is the most significant.

3. The chest pain of trachea and bronchitis is obviously aggravated when coughing and breathing, accompanied by a chest burning sensation.

4. Pulmonary infarction and other lung diseases, the pain is mostly confined to the affected area, and knife-like pain may occur, which will worsen during breathing, coughing and activity.

5, coughing pink bloody sputum or yellow rust-like sputum, chest pain, headache, fever, dyspnea, may be infected with pneumonia.

6. Chest wall disorders are mainly caused by lesions of the chest wall muscles, ribs, or intercostal nerves. The main feature is cough with chest pain, which is often fixed at the lesion, and there are obvious local tender points. Such as: (1) Intercostal neuralgia, tingling sensation in the direction of intercostal nerve, coughing and breathing will worsen. (2) Chest pain caused by rib fractures has a significant history of injury or a long history of severe cough. The painful area has obvious tenderness, and it is more obvious when squeezed.

Infectious, non-infectious respiratory disease or chest wall disease.

Differential diagnosis of cough with chest pain:

(1) Cough with fever is often caused by respiratory infections, bronchiectasis, infections, and pleurisy.

(2 Cough with wheezing Cough with wheezing can be seen in bronchial asthma, spastic bronchitis, cardiogenic asthma, and foreign bodies in the trachea.

(3) Cough with weight loss Cough with weight loss should pay attention to tuberculosis and bronchial cancer (primary lung cancer).

(4) Cough with dyspnea Cough with dyspnea is common in severe cardiopulmonary diseases, a large amount of pleural effusion, and spontaneous pneumothorax.

(5) Cough with clubbing fingers The so-called clubbing fingers mean that the distal knuckles are significantly widened and thickened, and the nails are arched from the root to the ends. Cough with clubbing can be seen in bronchiectasis and chronic abscesses.

When a cough occurs, as long as you carefully observe it, it is not difficult to judge the type and nature of the cough. For severe cough, most people will go to the hospital in time because it affects life, work, and study. For those who have a chronic cough, especially those that are not severe, many patients often do not value it. In fact, the cause of chronic cough is often heavier than that of acute severe cough.

1. Spontaneous pneumothorax chest pain is a sudden occurrence, accompanied by dyspnea, cough, tightness, and even severe conditions such as cyanosis and shock.

2, pleurisy is tingling, the ribs with the largest expansion of the chest is the most significant.

3. The chest pain of trachea and bronchitis is obviously aggravated when coughing and breathing, accompanied by a chest burning sensation.

4. Pulmonary infarction and other lung diseases, the pain is mostly confined to the affected area, and knife-like pain may occur, which will worsen during breathing, coughing and activity.

5, coughing pink bloody sputum or yellow rust-like sputum, chest pain, headache, fever, dyspnea, may be infected with pneumonia.

6. Chest wall disorders are mainly caused by lesions of the chest wall muscles, ribs, or intercostal nerves. The main feature is cough with chest pain, which is often fixed at the lesion, and there are obvious local tenderness points. Such as: (1) Intercostal neuralgia, tingling sensation in the direction of intercostal nerve, coughing and breathing will worsen. (2) Chest pain caused by rib fractures has a significant history of injury or a long history of severe cough. The painful area has obvious tenderness, and it is more obvious when squeezed.

Cause-specific treatment

A cough is a respiratory infection caused by various viral, bacterial, and other microbial infections. If the infection is limited to above the circular cartilage (above the pharynx), it is an upper respiratory tract infection. If the infection develops below the circular cartilage (below the pharynx), it is a lower respiratory infection. It is the trachea, bronchi, capillary bronchi, alveoli, and interstitial lung infections. If you use a large tree as an image metaphor, turn the tree upside down. Above the tree root is the upper respiratory tract, and below the tree root is the lower respiratory tract. The trunk is the trachea, the branch is the bronchus, the leaf stalk is the capillary bronchi, the leaves are the alveoli, and the leaf space is the lung interstitial. The entire respiratory tract can be affected by various external factors that cause pathological changes. These external factors are not simply viruses, bacteria, but also various microorganisms, as well as various physical and chemical factors, environmental factors, etc., or due to viruses. Bacteria and various factors lead to the occurrence of lesions in the respiratory tract mucosa, which cannot be improved with the death of viruses, bacteria and various microorganisms, resulting in damage to the function of the respiratory tract mucosa, resulting in a permanent cough. Therefore, this is the crux of cough that is difficult to treat even with advanced antibiotics, and the function of the respiratory mucosa itself must be improved. To cure the cough.

Nursing method for cough in children

Pediatric cough pay attention to raise. As the saying goes, three points rule, seven points support, to cure children with cough must not pay attention to support.

1. Keep the indoor air fresh

Foul air can cause adverse irritation to the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, which can cause congestion, edema, abnormal secretion of the respiratory tract mucosa, or worsening cough, which can cause severe wheezing symptoms. Therefore, to keep the indoor air fresh, the kitchen fumes must be discharged, and parents must not swallow and spit at home to smoke. Open the window regularly for ventilation.

2.Increase or decrease quilts in time

Many parents believe that children must be more afraid of cold than adults. They often cover their children too thickly and tightly, regardless of the seasons, indoors and outdoors, and protect them from a bit of cold. As a result, their ability to regulate the body is poor. Low resistance.

3.Adjust room temperature

A child's cough is often accompanied by fever, and excessive room temperature is not conducive to the body's heat dissipation. Slightly cold and fresh air can shrink the respiratory mucosa, reduce congestion and swelling, and keep the airway open. However, if the temperature is too low, the digested and absorbed nutrients will be used too much for oxidation to generate energy to maintain body temperature, weaken the disease resistance, and affect growth and development. A suitable temperature is 25-28 ° C, which is called neutral temperature. It is difficult to maintain this temperature under normal conditions, but the room temperature can not be too high or too low. Proper opening and closing of doors and windows to avoid crowded people in the room, using electric fans, heaters or air conditioners are simple and easy measures.

4. Keep proper humidity in the room

The environment is too dry, the humidity of the air is reduced, the mucous membranes become dry and brittle, small blood vessels may rupture and bleed, the cilia movement is restricted, and the sputum is not easy to come out. The effects are more pronounced when there is inflammation in the respiratory organs. It is not difficult to maintain a certain humidity in the room. When the climate is dry, you can mop the floor with a mop or sprinkle some water on the floor.

5. Pay attention to diet regulation

As the saying goes, fish makes fire, meat makes sputum, and vegetables and tofu are safe. Chinese medicine believes that fish, crab, shrimp, and fatty meat and other greasy and greasy foods may help wet sputum, and some may cause allergic reactions and aggravate the condition. Spicy products such as pepper, pepper, and ginger can irritate the respiratory tract and make the cough worse. Avoid it. Fresh vegetables such as vegetables, carrots, and tomatoes can provide a variety of vitamins and inorganic salts, which is beneficial to the recovery of the body's metabolic function.

6.Ensure adequate sleep

During sleep, the whole body muscles relax, reduce the response to external stimuli, and reduce activities such as heartbeat, breathing, and excretion, which are conducive to the recovery of various organ functions and the rehabilitation of diseases. Try to give your child more bed rest to ensure that the child has sufficient sleep to help the body recover

7.Ensure sufficient moisture

Pharyngeal dryness is one of the causes of pharyngitis in children, and pharyngitis is a common cause of chronic cough in children. Therefore, children should drink more water to supplement the body's required water, which has a flushing effect on the pharynx and can prevent the pharynx from drying out.

8. Eat less spicy and sweet food

Spicy sweet foods can increase cough symptoms in children. Mothers often like to cook rock sugar pear water for coughing children. If you put too much rock sugar, it will not only stop cough, but will make the cough worse because of too sweet.

9, indoor humidification method

There are many ways to humidify the air, such as mopping the floor, putting a water basin in the room, putting a wet towel on the heater, splashing water on the ground, etc. Although these methods will play a role in humidifying the room, they are not scientific. The disadvantages are obvious: the humidity is not constant; the humidity is maintained for a short time; the fog is large and the vision is uncomfortable; the large water droplets do not play an effective moisturizing effect on the respiratory tract, and do not have much significance for the protection of the respiratory mucosa in children. Therefore, the most scientific method is to use an air humidifier.