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Lung pain after pneumonia
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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Pain in the lungs after pneumonia - what could be the reason? And the reason most often lies in insufficient attention to one's health. Often we do not even think about the consequences that can result from untreated or "on the feet" pneumonia, ignored rules of rehabilitation after pneumonia. Alas, in our modern life, the first place for many is the presence of uninterrupted work capacity.
We go to work while sick, carry the virus "on our feet" and are often proud of it. Pain in the lungs after pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) is precisely the body's reaction to our frivolous attitude towards this serious disease.
[ Symptoms of Lung Pain After Pneumonia
Patients are bothered by attacks that occur when inhaling and manifest as minor tingling or acute attacks. These attacks can sometimes be accompanied by shortness of breath and rapid heartbeat. The degree of pain depends on the severity of the disease, the efficiency and quality of its treatment.
The symptoms listed above most often indicate the presence of an adhesion process in the body.
Adhesions are pathological fusions of organs. Adhesions are formed as a result of chronic infectious pathologies, as well as mechanical injuries or internal bleeding.
A patient with pneumonia may develop adhesions between the pleural sheets, one of which lines the lungs and the other the chest. When the pleural sheets become inflamed or inflammation spreads from the lungs to the pleura, fibrin is released, gluing the pleural sheets together. The area of the glued pleural sheets is called an adhesion.
Adhesions are divided into two types - single and multiple. In critical cases, they envelop the pleura entirely, causing its displacement and deformation and thereby making breathing difficult. This pathology has a very severe course, sometimes aggravated by acute respiratory failure. Limited mobility of the respiratory organs, frequent acute attacks of pain when breathing, the presence of mechanical obstruction - require immediate surgical intervention.
Multiple adhesions in the pleural cavity can sometimes support a sluggish inflammatory process. This happens if the adhesions limit the inflamed area on all sides, forming a capsule around it.
Adhesive pathology, causing pain in the lungs after pneumonia, is a fairly serious process, so the diagnosis and treatment should be determined by a doctor.
Doctors detect the presence of adhesions in the lung area using X-ray examination of the chest organs, CT or MRI of the chest organs.
The course of therapy for adhesive pathology is prescribed by a doctor and depends on the degree of its manifestation. In the presence of adhesions in the lungs, drug treatment is most often prescribed, and surgical intervention is undertaken only when the patient's life is in danger.
Who should you contact if you have lung pain after pneumonia?
Each person should remember that the lungs are the most important organ of human life, responsible for the circulation of oxygen in the body. Therefore, patients should abandon attempts at self-diagnosis and self-treatment, and also rely on intuition, knowledge in this area, advice from acquaintances who are not qualified in the field of medicine! A therapist, family doctor, phthisiatrician can conduct the necessary diagnostics and prescribe treatment for you.
Treatment of pain in the lungs after pneumonia
In modern medicine, the main methods of drug treatment of adhesive pathology in the lungs are warming and electrophoresis. Warming of the respiratory organs can be paraffin, clay or mud.
In the treatment of pain in the lungs after pneumonia, the speed of the patient's reaction to the pain symptom, the patient's awareness and the urgency of the prescribed treatment play an important role. Only timely therapy can guarantee the complete recovery of the patient. Correct rehabilitation will help to exclude complications after pneumonia, to restore the body weakened by the infection. The main function of rehabilitation measures is to restore the respiratory organs, to exclude the possibility of developing chronic bronchial and pulmonary pathology.
To recover from pneumonia, those who have recovered are often recommended to visit health resorts, massage certain points of the chest, oxygen therapy for respiratory failure, electrical therapy, artificial ventilation, complete smoking cessation, general strengthening and hardening procedures, therapeutic exercise and physiotherapy. In addition, the patient must protect the body from colds, especially for two months after the illness, and avoid being in places of professional pollution.