Why do I always have chest tightness and shortness of breath recently?

I don’t know your age or city. If it’s because of the recent overheating, just take part in more sports and practice running to improve your cardiopulmonary function and increase your lung capacity. But if it’s not due to the weather, It is best to go to the hospital for examination. Because the occurrence of chest tightness may indicate the existence of some organic or functional diseases, which should not be underestimated.

Chest tightness is a subjective feeling of labored breathing or insufficient air. In severe cases, it feels as if a stone is pressing on the chest, and even breathing difficulties may occur. It may be a functional manifestation of a body organ, or it may be one of the earliest symptoms of a disease in the human body.

1. Functional chest tightness: Staying in a room with poor air circulation for a long time, or encountering some unpleasant things, or even having quarrels or arguments with others, or being in a climate with low air pressure , often causing feelings of chest tightness and fatigue. After a short rest, opening windows for ventilation or going outside to breathe fresh air, relax your mind, and regulate your emotions, you will soon be back to normal. Chest tightness like this may be functional.

2. Pathological chest tightness: caused by diseases of certain organs in the body, that is, pathological chest tightness. Such as: 1. Obstruction of the respiratory tract: tumors in the tracheobronchi, tracheal stenosis, external pressure on the trachea (goiter, tumors in the mediastinum); 2. Lung diseases: emphysema, asthma, atelectasis, pulmonary infarction, pneumothorax; 3. Heart disease: certain congenital heart diseases, rheumatic valvular heart disease, coronary heart disease; 4. Diaphragm lesions: diaphragm bulge disease, diaphragm paralysis; 5. Body fluid metabolism and acid-base balance disorders, etc.

Chest tightness in children mostly indicates congenital heart disease, myocarditis or mediastinal tumors; chest tightness in young people usually indicates spontaneous pneumothorax, mediastinal tumors, and rheumatic valvular heart disease; chest tightness in the elderly most often indicates It indicates patients with emphysema, coronary heart disease, etc.