Diseases of the lungs and bronchi are always hard to tolerate due to violations of respiratory functions. A particularly unpleasant symptom is chest pain when coughing, since it can occur not only because of the separation of mucus and sputum, but also due to heart disease.
Pain in the chest and cough
The most common cause of this symptom is pneumonia. Moreover, the ailment accompanies not only a cough - the temperature and pain in the chest appear even in the early stages of the disease, the heat reaches values of 38-39 degrees.
In fact, the pain syndrome does not develop because of the damage to the lung tissue (there are quite a few nerve endings), but because of inflammation of the pleura and trachea. Viruses and bacteria that reproduce on the mucous membranes initially provoke intense inflammation, severe swelling and flushing of the tissues, after which a thick, viscous and difficult to separate sputum with an admixture of pus is released. The exudate is quite hard to expectorate, so the muscles are constantly toned and tense, which leads to a prolonged intense squeezing of nerve endings and unpleasant sensations.
Pain in the chest after a cough may stay for a while if the inflammatory process is in an acute stage. As a rule, after the end of the mucus separation process, the described clinical sign disappears for a while due to relaxation of smooth muscles.
If a cough pains in the chest
Inode the problem under consideration arises apart, without symptoms of diseases of the upper respiratory tract. In such cases, there is a suspicion of the course of inflammation in the pericardium.
The shell that covers the heart bag also has a variety of sensitive nerve endings, the tension and squeezing of which, during coughing or deep breaths, causes stinging pain.
- dry;
- exudative.
Both forms are considered serious pathologies and suggest monitoring in the hospital.
Cough and chest pain - treatment
In any bacterial or viral diseases of the upper respiratory tract, first of all, it is necessary to eliminate the cause of the pathology and remove the pathogen from the organism. To do this, antibiotics , various phytopreparations and antiviral medicines, prescribed by a specialist individually, are used.
Pericarditis, usually, is treated in the cardiology department under the constant supervision of a doctor, because the complications of the disease are fraught with a fatal outcome.