Pleural pains
Description:
Typical pleural pains are pricking, cutting or thermalgias in heart or behind a breast.
Symptoms of Pleural pains:
Typical pleural pains amplify at cough, deep breath, swallowing, and also upon transition to a prone position. Pain weakens if to bend forward and not to move. Such pains can proceed several hours and even days; nitroglycerine they do not act. At pleurisy of the patient often accepts a forced pose: it is easier for it to lie on a sick side as in this situation friction of leaves of a pleura, so, and pain decreases. In addition to characteristic stethalgias, also dry cough is noted; are possible fervescence. a headache, weakness (if it is acute pleurisy), an asthma (the speeded-up and shallow breathing) and other signs of respiratory insufficiency, in particular, cyanosis of lips and pallor of skin.
By the way, in process of accumulation of an exudate in a pleural cavity pain can abate, but it does not demonstrate at all that "everything passed itself". Signs of respiratory insufficiency at the same time can accrue.
Reasons of Pleural pains:
Most often they are connected with pleurisy - a pleura inflammation (the cover surrounding lungs) or a pericardis - a pericardium inflammation (a pericardiac bag).
Pericardis - one of etiological factors of pleural pains
Treatment of Pleural pains:
It is necessary to carry out treatment of a basic disease against the background of which pleural pains are observed.
