Difficulty breathing: causes and symptoms

Often, physical or emotional stress causes a person to feel a lack of air, while breathing is difficult. The causes can be covered in any beginning or existing pathologies. Today we will find out why such violations occur and what to do about it.

Why is breathing difficult?

• The reasons are sometimes hiding in a penchant for hysteria and neuroses. Constant psychoemotional overstrain leads to an increase in the frequency of respiratory movements. Usually, this phenomenon is accompanied by dizziness, a feeling of faintness, increased sweating and tachycardia.
• In pregnant women, the growing uterus, which compresses the diaphragm, can also cause shortness of breath. This is typical for the second half of pregnancy and if the woman has two or more fruits.
• Problems with breathing are also experienced by patients with cardiovascular pathologies: coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, heart defects, etc. In addition to shortness of breath, they also complain of heart pain, dizziness and palpitations.
• Tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchial asthma, cancer can also be attributed to pathologies in which breathing is difficult. The reasons for this lie in the violation of the functioning of the bodies responsible for this process.
• Problems with breathing and causes a severe allergic reaction (it's about Quinck's swelling and anaphylactic shock).
• Shortness of breath can be the result of liver pathologies, thyroid problems, kidney problems or severe anemia.

How to determine the presence of dyspnea?

To understand with certainty that a person has difficulty breathing (the reasons for this have been discussed above), one should pay attention to individual signs of the presence of dyspnea.

• Developing slowness in communication: a person with difficulty concentrates on what has been said, hardly perceives the meaning of the words spoken.
• The lack of air forces you to take deep breaths from time to time.
• The patient, as a rule, is hard, if not impossible, to sleep, lying on his back.
• The presence of a foreign body is constantly felt in the throat.
• Breathing becomes noisy: accompanied by wheezing and wheezing sounds.

When these signs appear, a compulsory medical consultation is necessary. Do not try to find out from friends and relatives what to do with difficulty breathing, but immediately contact the specialists. If dyspnea is accompanied by a chronic illness, it usually signals a complication of its course. If the symptom is self-evident, you need a thorough examination from a therapist, cardiologist, oncologist or pulmonologist!

Difficulty in breathing in the child: causes

In children, viral or bacterial infections can lead to breathing problems. The most frequent reasons include a false croup, which develops as a result of a lesion of the mucosa of the trachea and larynx in the case of ARVI, measles, rubella, chickenpox, as well as diphtheria or scarlet fever.

In such cases, the lumen in the airways narrows, there is a feeling of lack of air, difficulty in inhaling. At this, the baby breathes noisily, his voice becomes hoarse, and the cough - dry and barking. This condition requires an immediate medical attention! Before he arrives, make sure that the child has access to cool, moist air.