CHEST PAIN: COMMON CAUSES

-
COMMON CAUSES OF CHEST PAIN.
The feeling of pain on your chest can have various possible causes. Medically, these causes can be called "differential diagnosis".

You may have experienced pain on your chest many a time and sometime it disappears on it's own. 
However, chest pain can be so disturbing that it is referred to another area of your body. It can as well be troubling in a way that limits your usual activities. 

These are the common causes of chest pain;

Cardiac (Heart) origin:
Myocardial ischemia (Angina pectoris) 
Myocardial infarction
Pericarditis 
Heart valves dysfunction 


Respiratory (lungs) rigin:
Pneumonia
Bronchospasm
Pulmonary infarction
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary embolism
Pneumotborax
Tracheitis
Cancer  (Malignancy) 


Musculoskeletal origin:
Rib injury/ fracture 
Osteoarthritis
Exercise like weight lifting 
Costochondritis 
Epidermic myalgia 
Chest muscle injury


Neurological origin
Herpes zoster
Intervatebral disc prolapse


Vascular origin:
Aortic dissection
Aortic aneurysm 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WHY DOES YOUR FART SMELL

-
Swallowing of air can be a habit or a medical condition and t's called aerophagy or aerophagia.  Swallowing air voluntarily or involuntarily from foods and drinks won't make your fart smell. It will be odorless. Some of the air is released by mouth (when you belch), some are absorbed into your blood while you release some as fart and they won't smell. Your fart smells when you ingest certain foods that may undergo putrefaction in your large intestine. Some of the bacteria in your intestine ( which is normal) acts on these foods producing sulfur or compounds that has sulfur. Sulfur is fowl smelling. Some of these foods or substances are beans, egg, milk, garlic, alcohol, onions, fish, chicken, cabbage to mention a few. Many of them contain sulfur. Some are high fiber containing foods so will take long to break down creating enough time for bacteria to ferment them. Some high fiber foods are Avocado, popcorn, banana, almonds, sweet potatoes etc. NEXT TIME YOU WANNA FART...
Read more

FOOD POISONING: MEANING, CAUSES AND PREVENTION

-
Image
FOOD POISONING (FOODBORNE ILLNESS)  It is the illness that occures when you take in food or drink that is contaminated with parasites, viruses, harmful chemicals, bacteria and/or their toxins.  When you take in these contaminated foods, your intestine becomes infected and irritated producing the discomfort you may feel. The exposed garden eggs, vegetables, cucumber, pineapple you buy can easily get contaminated, requiring proper washing before eating because you don't cook them.  CONTAMINATION OF FOOD CAN OCCUR DURING: Production Growing Harvesting Processing Storage Shipping Preparation and eating SYMPTOMS: Symptoms can start within hours or days after you have eaten the food. The symptoms can resolve on its own but sometimes you may need medical attention.  Some of the symptoms are: Diarrhea which may be bloody Nausea Vomiting Abdominal cramps  Fever Headache  Muscle pain  Joint pain  Painful and urgent need to pass little or no stoo...
Read more

ANAPHYLAXIS

-
Image
Anaphylaxis is an extreme and severe form of allergy or allergic reaction . It is usually life-threatening.  Not everyone gets allergies but if you have the tendency to get it from genetics of frequent exposure to allergens , you can develop anaphylaxis. This means that allergy is a risk factor for anaphylaxis but not everyone with allergy experience anaphylaxis.  When you get stung by a bee, the area gets inflammed. It becomes painful, red in color, warm and swollen. It may also itch. These reactions are known as inflammatory reactions and they are triggered by chemicals like histamine, prostagladin and bradykinin which are released by cells in that area so as to fight the offending substance and improve healing.  In anaphylaxis, these chemicals are released in large amount into the bloodstream. They flood your bloodstream and the result of this can be fatal as you can go into shock. You may find it difficult breathing and your blood pressure will drop.  SIGNS AND S...
Read more