Pain in the lungs can occur with dry pleurisy. Most often, this disease develops against the background of the tuberculosis process. In addition, pleurisy can occur with an abscess of the lungs, pneumonia, tumor processes, accompanied by a defeat of the pleura, chest injuries, echinococcosis. The disease also accompanies rheumatism, blood diseases, diffuse lesions in the connective tissue (collagenosis).
In this case, pain in the lungs develops when coughing, deep breathing or a change in body position. As a rule, it is one-sided, has a piercing character. The pain in the lungs subsides when the patient is in a position on the affected side. This is due to a decrease in pleural mobility.
Pain in the lungs occurs with croupous pneumonia. This disease is included in the group of acute infectious ailments. Croupous pneumonia affects one or more pulmonary lobes. Most often, the disease occurs as a result of a pneumococcal lesion.
The initial course of the disease is accompanied by stitching pain in the lungs with a sharp increase in temperature, chills, intensified symptoms of intoxication, hyperemia of the cheeks, cyanosis, shortness of breath and herpes on the lips. Dry cough is also characteristic, alternating with a cough with the release of rusty sputum, which has a viscous consistency with an admixture of blood.
Sharp, prolonged pain in the lungs, aggravated by talking, breathing, physical exertion, may be a symptom of spontaneous pneumothorax. In this state, the flow of air into the pleural cavity continues until the pressure in it reaches the atmospheric pressure or collapse occurs.
Spontaneous pneumothorax can occur against the background of tuberculosis, trauma, purulent disease or lung cancer. The disease is classified into closed, open and valve types.
Often the disease affects young men. In this case, soreness is accompanied by a sharp blanching of the skin, cold sweat, weakness, decreased blood pressure, a short frequent pulse. Patients complain of dry cough, shortness of breath. Cyanosis and tachycardia are noted. Patients prefer to occupy a sitting position.
Late stage lung cancer is also accompanied by chest pain. Moreover, it has a different nature. The pain can be stitching, surrounding, acute, aggravate during coughing, breathing. A symptom manifests itself in a certain area or half of the chest, its irradiation into the stomach, arms, neck and so on is not excluded. With the germination of a tumor in the spine, ribs, soreness becomes especially painful and intense. Metastasis of formation provokes hemoptysis, shortness of breath, intensifying weakness.
Soreness can be of bone origin and result from pathological processes. The most common include:
1. Injuries.
2. Inflammation:
- osteomyelitis of the sternum and ribs;
- tuberculosis of the ribs;
- actinomycosis;
- syphilitic bone lesions.
3. Tumor and diploplastic processes:
- primary neoplasms (benign chondroma);
- metastatic destruction;
- tumor-like pathologies (chondromatosis, eosinophilic granuloma, cysts).
4. Dystrophic diseases (osteomalacia, osteoporosis).
Sore lungs can also have articular nature. Such pain occurs most often with arthritis (traumatic, ankylosing spondylitis, metastatic infectious), arthrosis, and tumors.
The pain can be of muscular origin and develop with overwork, trauma.
Often the pain syndrome manifests itself from an excess of gases in the intestines. It should be noted that such a condition in some cases can have very serious consequences.
Regardless of the localization of pain, self-diagnosis and, of course, self-medication are unacceptable. If you experience any discomfort, you should contact a specialist.