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What Causes Pain In Chest While Breathing?
Greetings! Every time I breathe in deep the right side of my chest hurts, like there s a stabbing sensation ( there are times when it also hurts just by normal breathing). I don t know if it s because of gas/air or perhaps because since last week I ve been drinking softdrinks all the time.
Fri, 31 Oct 2014
the pain you are experiencing could be due to inflammation of the lining of the lungs called pleuritis. you need a physician to examine you for a pleural rub and you need a chest X-ray to see for development of any pleural effusion. there are other causes of right sided chest pain which include muscular pain, pain in costal cartilages called costochondritis and even pain arises from a liver lesion like an amebic liver abscess. so if chest X-ray is inconclusive, I would suggest an ultrasound abdomen. gas causing pain is a diagnosis of exclusion. other causes must be ruled out
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