In daily life, people will inevitably encounter small problems, today to talk about the "flank pain" related knowledge.
When the rib area is pressed, the pain will be more obvious, but as long as you pay attention to the adjustment of posture, the pain will soon disappear. However, after many people have ruled out this factor, they will still have repeated rib pain, accompanied by some other uncomfortable symptoms, which will greatly affect the patient's health and life.
So there are a lot of people who want to know what the pain in the rib area is all about.
1. Soft tissue damage
The rib area refers to the human ribs, which are very soft and generally do not occur in fractures. However, due to some external violence, soft tissues will be damaged, which will cause some local inflammatory edema.
Then in daily life, the patient's ribs will have different degrees of pain. Especially when taking deep breaths and coughing, this pain will be more obvious.
If there is a fracture, this pain will be very obvious, and there will be a situation where you dare not cough.
2. Costochondritis
The incidence of costochondritis is very high, which refers to a series of symptoms caused by inflammation of the cartilage at the junction of the ribs and the sternum. The cause of the disease is not very clear, but it is generally believed to be related to infection with the virus or prolonged exposure to external force impact.
In addition, if you have some benign or malignant tumors, or long-term heavy physical labor, it will also induce the appearance of costochondritis. Once suffering from costochondritis, the patient's rib area will experience different degrees of pain.
For example, in the case of non-specific chondroiditis, patients will first have chest tightness, followed by vague pain or dull pain in the chest and rib area, and it is very likely that there will be rib cartilage enlargement and bulging.
In patients with infectious costochondritis, patients also experience persistent pain in the chest and rib areas. When this pain radiates to the abdomen, there will be a very obvious tenderness in the rib area.
In addition, the rib cartilage will appear particularly obvious redness and swelling, accompanied by an increase in body temperature.
3. Tuberculosis
If there is pain in the rib area, the patient is also accompanied by repeated cough, chest pain, afternoon fever, night sweats, which is generally related to tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis and is highly contagious.
Once suffering from tuberculosis, in addition to showing cough, sputum production, chest pain, night sweats, physical fatigue and other symptoms, inflammation will also spread to the pleura, resulting in pleura irritation, which will cause chest pain, as well as rib pain.
Once the complications of rib tuberculosis are triggered, the symptoms of pain in the rib area will be particularly pronounced, and it will be accompanied by a coughing up of blood.
4. Myocardial infarction
Pain in the rib area may be associated with myocardial infarction if accompanied by very pronounced retrosternal pain, shoulder and back pain, left body pain, and chest tightness, poor breathing, palpitations, dizziness, and cough.
After suffering from myocardial infarction, due to the serious shortage of blood supply to the myocardium, the cardiovascular system will contract abnormally, resulting in a series of stimulation of the heart, pleura and other parts, resulting in the appearance of pain.
All in all, if you repeatedly feel pain in the rib area in your daily life, you must be vigilant, it is very likely to be related to the above 4 diseases. Then the patient should be judged according to some other symptoms of their own discomfort, and then quickly go to the regular hospital for treatment.
And according to the cause, under the guidance of the doctor to give the corresponding treatment, in order to reduce the pain in the rib area, to achieve the role of protecting their own health.