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What Is The Cause Of Chest Pain?
My 16 year old daughter is having right sided deep chest pain. She describes it as sharp stabbing pain. She states it is behind her breast. Negative trauma, negative cough. 500mg Tylenol given at 9:00PM, tried stretching and applying heat. Nothing I helping to resolve the pain. What could this be?
Wed, 18 Feb 2015
Thanks for your question on HCM.
I can understand your situation and problem.
By your history and description, I think we should rule out pleurisy first in her case.
Pleurisy is inflammation of pleura. And it can cause similar kind of pain she is having (sharp , stabbing pain).
Possible causes for pleurisy are
1. Pneumonia
2. Pleural effusion
3. Tuberculosis.
So get done chest x ray to rule out above mentioned causes.
If chest x ray is normal, then no need to worry much for pleurisy.
It is musculoskeletal pain mostly.
So ask her to take painkiller and muscle relaxant tablet.
I can understand your situation and problem.
By your history and description, I think we should rule out pleurisy first in her case.
Pleurisy is inflammation of pleura. And it can cause similar kind of pain she is having (sharp , stabbing pain).
Possible causes for pleurisy are
1. Pneumonia
2. Pleural effusion
3. Tuberculosis.
So get done chest x ray to rule out above mentioned causes.
If chest x ray is normal, then no need to worry much for pleurisy.
It is musculoskeletal pain mostly.
So ask her to take painkiller and muscle relaxant tablet.
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