Chest pain | What is chest pain?

Chest pain is a painful sensation in the chest or otherwise objectionable, which may or may not be associated with cardiac damage. Chest pain in adults can have several causes, some of which include:

Lung: may have pneumonia or other lung infections that can cause chest pain. Coughing can also cause pain.

Musculoskeletal: a common cause of chest pain include pain due to injury or strain on the joints or muscles. If you have some damage to the ribs, injury or tumor, it can cause you to feel pain in your chest.

Gastrointestinal: You may have the kind of gastroesophageal reflux. In this case the contents of the stomach back into the esophagus instead of down. This can cause pain after eating in abundance, lying down or bending. Antacids, such as famotidine (Pepcid), omeprazole (Prilosec) or Mylanta can relieve these symptoms.

Angina can be a cause of chest pain that can occur as a feeling of "tightness" in the chest. Anxiety or depression can cause you to feel angina. Some other causes of angina include:

Coronary artery disease (the most common cause of angina) from time to time, can form fatty deposits (called atherosclerosis), which damage the walls of the arteries that carry blood to the heart, restricting blood flow and occur less oxygen to the heart muscle. The lack of oxygen causes angina.

Coronary artery spasm may cause spasm of the coronary arteries which creates a temporary constriction of blood flow and lack of oxygen to the heart muscle while. When seizures disappear, usually the pain goes away because the blood flow returns to normal.

Anemia: homoglobina low levels (Hb) levels may cause angina. The hemoglobin carries oxygen in the blood.

Polycythemia: This occurs when the blood has too many red blood cells (erythrocytes). This causes the blood to thicken. Polycythemia may be the result of a lifelong disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or because of problems with the blood itself,

or irregular heart rhythm, heart problems and thyroid disease valve also cause angina.

Chest pain should not be ignored for any reason. Here, we show some serious symptoms to consider. If you experience any of these symptoms, you should seek emergency care, and then tell your doctor.