Most often, cough and pain in the chest area are a pointer to pleura. It is likely that, despite the fact that the thought of heart problems arises primarily, pain is not connected in any way with the heart region. Usually, sharp chest pain when coughing is localized either in the right or left side. In this case, pain is both dull and acute.
About diseases
If a person complains of chest pain and a prolonged cough, the causes may lie in the inflammatory process of the membrane. She lines the chest from the inside, covers the lungs. Often the development of dry pleurisy begins due to a variety of diseases. But the most common cause of coughing and chest pain is pneumonia.
Pleurisy
Pain with dry pleurisy is reduced in the position on the sore side. In this case, the mobility of part of the chest is often limited. Often heard the noise of friction of the pleura. Usually these symptoms are accompanied by chills, night sweats, general weakness.
If a person says: “When I cough, my chest hurts,” the reason may be that he has abnormalities in the rib cage or the thoracic spine. Similar phenomena are characteristic of pleural tumors.
Pericarditis
If there is dry pericarditis, pain in the chest becomes more intense with coughing, inhaling, and moving. For this reason, breathing is becoming less and less deep, this leads to shortness of breath.
If the interpleural ligament is shortened, this manifests itself in a constant cough, which intensifies during the conversation, with deep breaths, physical exertion. In this case, a cough with chest pain also appears.
Neuralgia
Similar symptoms accompany intercostal neuralgia. If there are renal colic, pain manifests itself in the right hypochondrium. Further, this pain spreads throughout the abdominal cavity. Pain can be given to the right shoulder blade, shoulder. At the same time, dry cough and chest pain may intensify. The same thing happens when you inhale.
But it is also a symptom of osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine.
Pain in the chest that occurs due to a cold is accompanied by a cough. He gives the sensation that they scratch behind the chest. And such a manifestation is amplified. Therefore, the patient may complain: "When I cough, my chest hurts." Diagnosis of such a disease is extremely important at an early stage. Often the diaphragm gets tired due to long work, and then pain syndrome manifests itself with its contractions. The body temperature drops, pain is localized in the chest, the cough does not go away for a long time, as these are complex symptoms. When a cold ends, these manifestations also go away.
Lungs' cancer
Do not forget that the complaints “when I cough, my chest hurts” are typical for patients who suffer from a malignant tumor of the lungs. In this case, pain are very different. They can give in the limbs and in the abdominal cavity. Most often, the pain intensifies if the tumor grows in the ribs and spinal column.
Pneumothorax
In addition, a person suffering from pneumothorax may experience coughing and chest discomfort. In this case, the pain can be unbearable. Sometimes they are moderate. But in any case, there is an increase in pain at the moment when the patient moves or coughs. Sometimes a person can suddenly break out coughing with the onset of pneumothorax. And often the disease is not accompanied by pain.
How to relieve cough with pleurisy?
It must be borne in mind that if the first health complaints are detected, it is recommended to consult a doctor. If pleurisy is detected in a patient, only a specialist can prescribe suitable therapy. It is important to provide it with antibacterial drugs, diuretics, anti-inflammatory. In addition, physiotherapy is mandatory.
Based on the reception of antibacterial agents.
Only in addition to the main course of treatment is it possible to take folk remedies. So, a honey-based recipe is considered effective. For cooking, you need to take 100 g of honey, aloe leaves, pork fat, cocoa and sugar. First of all, it is important to melt fat with honey, keeping the mixture on low heat. At the same time, you need to peel and chop aloe leaves in a blender. The ingredients should be mixed, and then add sugar to cocoa to the mixture. The composition must be heated in a water bath until it becomes homogeneous. You need to use it three times a day for 2 months. After taking a short break, you need to repeat the course of treatment. They keep such a composition that can save a person from complaints "when I cough, my chest hurts," in the refrigerator.
The second popular recipe is a mixture of pork fat, chicken yolk, a spoonful of honey, which is poured into a glass of milk.
First of all, it is necessary to melt the honey, and then mix it with chicken yolk. Pork fat is added to these ingredients. And only towards the end of the mixture is poured with warm milk. Having mixed all the components, they drink the drink. It is necessary to repeat this twice a day in the morning and evening. Once this drink is drunk, it is worth 30 minutes to lie under the covers. It is not recommended to leave the house.
Bronchitis treatment
Depending on the symptoms of bronchitis, the treatment for this disease varies. Only the doctor will select the drugs suitable for the particular patient. It is important that the drug has an effect directly on the causative agent of the disease. The diagnosis and treatment are determined by the doctor quite quickly, after which the person begins taking antibiotics, medications, antifungal agents and so on.
Drug therapy includes physiotherapy, gymnastics, massage. All this alleviates the symptoms, and bronchitis is treated fairly quickly. In the treatment of the chronic form of this disease, it is very important to exclude factors that provoke inflammatory processes in the bronchi.
In addition, they actively use alternative medicine. But they are included in the therapeutic course only after the attending physician agreed. It is important to remember that herbal medicines, which form the basis of alternative medicine, can trigger allergic reactions.
Folk remedies
Folk remedies include all kinds of herbal decoctions, breast collection, inhalation. Very effective ways to get rid of bronchitis are considered to be the use of hot milk with honey, juice of radish with honey, a decoction of calendula, plantain, licorice.
Great for treating bronchitis, cough with sputum, chest pain carrot juice with honey, plantain juice with honey, cabbage juice. Very actively used infusions from the root of the marshmallow. Prepare them like that. The roots of this plant are ground to a powder state. After taking 5 g of powder, it is poured into a glass of water. The powder will completely dissolve in it after 6-8 hours. Then begin to use the infusion of two or three tablespoons three times a day.
Gymnastics
In addition, breathing exercises are considered an effective way to get rid of bronchitis. It consists in inflating balloons, blowing out candles. Electrophoresis is also often used, which has also established itself as an excellent method of combating bronchitis.
Dry cough treatment for tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of bacterial etiology. The disease has both a medical and a social aspect. More sensitive to the causative agent of the disease are people with low immunity who live in poor living conditions. The level of quality of life has a direct impact on the development of tuberculosis. The risk group is represented by all segments of the population, regardless of what gender and age a person is.
Predictions for recovery depend directly on the stage of the disease, the area of damage, the general condition of the person. Due to the fact that the disease is diagnosed at the initial stage, an effective course of treatment is selected that contributes to the final healing of the patient.
This disease requires a long and complex therapy, the choice of which is always due to the stage of development of the disease, the general condition of the person. The most important part of the course of treatment is diet and the implementation of special gymnastics.
Therapy of the patient is carried out in a tuberculosis dispensary. This is intended to exclude the possibility of infection of the population. The duration of a person’s stay in the hospital directly depends on what stage the disease is at. Most often it is a few months or a year. Sometimes treatment should be even longer. Self-discontinuation of medication usually leads to a relapse of the disease or the disease continues to progress, while serious complications develop, which sometimes lead to death.
Treatment features
If a person complains: “When I cough, my chest hurts,” the treatment of pleurisy of the lungs is a complex measure aimed at eliminating the disease. Usually the treatment is symptomatic, it is intended primarily to dissolve fibrin, to prevent spikes from forming in the pleural cavity and fluid "bags".
First of all, it is important to eliminate the edema that always accompanies pleurisy. If the patient has a high temperature, they are prescribed an antipyretic. If he complains of pain when coughing, he is prescribed analgesics. Thanks to this, the therapist achieves the normalization of respiratory functions, the effectiveness of the treatment of the underlying disease. Therapy of pleurisy of the lung stages is sometimes carried out at home, while in the later stages it is possible to recover from the disease only in a hospital. It includes many techniques that ensure the effectiveness of treatment.
For example, the use of thoracocentesis, a procedure that allows you to remove fluid from the pleural cavity of a person, is quite popular. It is prescribed for any case of effusion pleurisy in the absence of pronounced contraindications in humans.
During thoracentesis, local anesthesia is indicated. A needle is inserted into the pleural cavity to the side of the scapula. Thus, the exudate is taken. Due to this, the lung tissue is less compressed, and the patient's breathing becomes easier.
Often, repeated procedures are required. To this end, many safe systems have been developed.
The seriousness of the disease is not only that the chest hurts when you cough. A possible cause of the disease is tuberculosis? This means that the disease is an increased danger, often the intervention of relatives is required in the absence of a doctor nearby. After all, the patient may urgently need to release the pleural cavity from the fluid. Another type of intervention is pleurodesis. This operation forms adhesions between the pleura sheets. It is intended for this, so that the liquid could not accumulate here. The procedure is most often indicated for people suffering from cancer in cases where chemotherapy is ineffective. The pleural cavity in this case is filled with a special substance that does not allow the exudate to develop. A substance of this kind has an antitumor effect. In cases where this technique is ineffective, the pleura is removed by installing a shunt instead. Subsequently, the fluid from the pleural cavity passes to the abdominal. But such a technique is considered radical. It can provoke many complications. For this reason, they implement it in rare cases.
If pleurisy has an infectious nature or is complicated by infectious diseases, antibacterial agents are used. Their choice is due to the type of pathogen and its sensitivity to certain antibiotics.
Medicines in this case are selected strictly defined types - natural, synthetic, semi-synthetic, combined penicillins.
To treat pleural inflammation, drugs of the desensitizing category are often prescribed.
It is important to consider the fact that pleurisy of the lungs is well treated by chemotherapy. After it, swelling occurs, and the symptoms quickly subside. The injection of drugs occurs in a systematic way - through injections or intrapleurally, through a membrane valve.
Pain provocateur
If the patient suffers from coughing and chest pain, there is no temperature, it is important to check whether he smokes. After all, a chronic cough provokes smoking, tuberculosis, cancer of the bronchi and lungs, asthma. It can also occur due to diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, some cardiovascular diseases and many others.
Sometimes a chronic cough acts as a side effect after taking a number of medications. This property is characteristic of ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers, which are prescribed in the presence of cardiovascular diseases.
A separate category is idiopathic cough. At the same time, the reasons provoking it remain mysterious. Most often, this symptom is characteristic of middle-aged women. They have an attack of prolonged dry cough, as a rule, develops during menopause, after SARS. This symptom is not amenable to treatment. The only thing that medicine does in this case is the patient prescribes lifelong use of cough medicines.
It is important to consider that such confusion occurs when it comes to the chronic form of cough. An acute cough has been studied in much more detail. Most likely, when the first signs of cough appear, the doctor will suspect ARVI or the flu in his patient. These diseases appear in a dry cough, which sometimes turns into a wet variety. Sputum is usually transparent or purulent in such cases. In addition, there is an increase in body temperature, general weakness, malaise.
The second most popular diagnosis is bronchitis. This disease is considered a complication of SARS. It is characterized by a sudden increase in temperature to 39 degrees, low chest cough, chest pain and profuse sputum production, general malaise. Therapy for the most part in this case is symptomatic. Expectorant medicines are used. It is important to remember that heavy drinking helps to cope with the likelihood of dehydration, helps restore water balance in the body, which is very important for a patient with a similar diagnosis.