What are the symptoms of costochondritis in women?

Costochondritis is a particularly common disease. Generally, most people who suffer from this disease are women. There are many reasons why women suffer from costochondritis. When actively treating it, it is necessary to treat it symptomatically according to the cause of costochondritis. However, if you can understand the symptoms of costochondritis, you can achieve early detection and early treatment when treating the disease, which can slow down the aggravation of the disease and avoid missing the best treatment time.

Symptoms of costochondritis in women

Costochondritis is a common clinical disease, which is mainly divided into two categories: nonspecific costochondritis and suppurative costochondritis. Of course, nonspecific costochondritis is the most common clinical disease, and nonspecific costochondritis is more common in women. The main clinical manifestation is chest pain accompanied by tenderness. A few days after the onset of the disease, swelling and bulge will appear in the affected cartilage. When the pain is severe, it may radiate to the back. It usually involves the breasts and causes referred pain in the breasts. The disease tends to heal on its own, but it may also recur.

What does costochondritis mean?

Costochondritis is an inflammatory reaction between the ribs and the cartilage interface and is divided into two categories:

1. Bacterial and suppurative costochondritis are usually rare in clinical practice;

2. Another type of clinical condition is more common, accounting for about 95%, which is called nonspecific costochondritis. The symptoms are very typical. A severe reaction occurs on the costal cartilage surface at the junction of the ribs and sternum in the chest area. Symptoms include local bulges, lump-like swellings, tenderness, and even local fever.

For costochondritis, we should not only understand it from the perspective of bacterial infection, but also consider non-specific factors and even viral factors, so the treatment methods cannot be generalized.

How to treat costochondritis?

Costochondritis is a sterile inflammation, which mainly stimulates the costal cartilage area, causing obvious edema and exudation in the costal cartilage area, thereby causing obvious tenderness. The pain will be significantly aggravated during chest expansion exercises, coughing, and gasping for breath. After this happens, you must pay more attention to keeping warm and avoid catching cold. You can apply hot compresses to the costochondritis area to promote local blood circulation, promote the disappearance of inflammatory edema and the recovery of costochondritis.

In addition, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can be used for external application and oral treatment to combat aseptic inflammation and relieve pain. If the patient's pain is not significantly relieved, consider blocking injections of glucocorticoids at the local tender points to combat the aseptic inflammation of costochondritis.