Symptoms and treatment of costochondritis

summary

Thoracic costal chondritis can be divided into non-specific and non suppurative, mainly the human body's sternum and other places will have some serious lesions, local tissue will have some swelling, high-risk crowd is which young female friends, then for thoracic costal chondritis what clinical symptoms, how to treat it, we will introduce in detail, hope to have some help to friends.

Symptoms and treatment of costochondritis

Sternochondritis mainly invades the sternal stalk, the medial clavicle and the costal cartilage of the anterior and inferior columns of the human body. The affected cartilage will have blunt pain and sharp pain in the chest, tenderness, swelling and swelling. When deep breathing and coughing, the pain symptoms of the upper limbs will aggravate, sometimes it will radiate to the shoulder and back, and even can't raise the arm, But the local skin did not change, the degree of pain symptoms is not the same, some may affect work and study.

Patients with costochondritis attack faster, chest will have tingling, jumping pain and soreness symptoms, because the onset is relatively slow, it will lead to the internal body and soft rib junction appear bow shape unconsciously, some patients will appear swelling, dull pain symptoms, sometimes it will shoot to the back armpit and neck chest, some patients will have chest tightness and suffocation symptoms, When lying on the side, the pain will be relieved, deep breathing, coughing, and the pain will be aggravated when lying on the back.

Sternochondritis needs to be treated by combination therapy. Most of our friends will have sternal pain. For the pain symptoms, we can use the analgesic drug prednisone, and then cooperate with the antiviral drug ribavirin. In this way, the combination therapy can achieve a good therapeutic purpose. For the local pain symptoms of the patients, we also need to inject lidocaine and prednisone to take blocking therapy, The treatment effect is better.

matters needing attention

The above details of the clinical symptoms and treatment of chest rib inflammation, I hope for friends will be some help. Costochondritis patients need to adjust personal habits, do not stay up late, ensure adequate sleep, avoid overwork, should rest properly, to achieve the combination of work and rest, for some heavy physical work, it is best to reduce the activities of upper limbs and chest, if there are symptoms of pain, then take the way of hot compress. If costochondritis patients have local pain symptoms, then use the physical way to relieve the local pain symptoms of patients, but patients should not smoke, there may be canceration, it may aggravate the disease, finally hope friends can go to the hospital as soon as possible for treatment.