Can smoking cause intercostal neuralgia

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Smoking is very harmful to the human body, many diseases are caused by excessive smoking, so many times will appeal to smokers to quit smoking, for those who do not smoke, more strongly prohibit smoking, let's talk about smoking can cause intercostal neuralgia.

Can smoking cause intercostal neuralgia

First: smoke contains many harmful substances to human body, including some carcinogens. In the case of more smoking, the lung is the first to be damaged, resulting in the reduction of inhaled oxygen and the increase of toxic substances, which may lead to intercostal nerve pain. It is suggested to go to the hospital for examination in time. You can check whether there are other reasons after the film and ECG examination. If there is no obvious problem, it may be caused by excessive smoking.

Second: smoking may cause cough and intercostal neuralgia. Intercostal neuralgia is a group of symptoms, refers to the thoracic nerve root (intercostal nerve) due to different reasons of damage, such as: thoracic degeneration, thoracic tuberculosis, thoracic injury, thoracic duralitis, tumor, ankylosing spondylitis and other diseases or ribs, mediastinum, pleural lesions, intercostal nerve by the above diseases of compression, stimulation, inflammatory reaction, and appear in the chest intercostal or intercostal nerve A syndrome of abdominal banded pain.

Third: when intercostal neuralgia occurs, it can be seen that the pain radiates from back to front along the corresponding intercostal space, showing a semicircular shape; the pain presents a stabbing or burning pain. When smoking, coughing, deep breathing or sneezing, the pain increases. Most of the pain occurred in one side of the nerve. There are obvious tenderness in the paraspinous process and intercostal space of thoracic vertebrae; in patients with typical root intercostal neuralgia, neck flexion test is positive; the distribution area of involved nerves often has nerve function damage such as hypersensitivity or hypoesthesia.

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Patients with intercostal neuralgia still don't smoke, smoking itself is not a good thing, through smoking cessation can let the patient's disease be controlled, because smoking will cause cough, cough will cause intercostal neuralgia, it is recommended to quit smoking, so that the patient can let the disease be alleviated.