The lowest ribs hurt when pressed

Generally speaking, there will be no pain in the human ribs and the areas around the ribs, but some people feel very painful when pressing their ribs with their hands. However, in daily life, many people do not pay attention to it. There are usually many reasons for the pain caused by pressing the ribs. During treatment, you must go to the hospital to find out the cause and then actively receive treatment to avoid worsening of the condition and adding to the suffering of treatment.

What causes pain when pressing on the lower ribs?

It is very likely caused by costitis. It is best to find out the cause and then actively treat it.

Symptoms of rib inflammation

1. Nonspecific costochondritis

In the early stage of the disease, patients feel chest pain. After a few days, swelling, bulge, dull pain or sharp pain appear in the affected costal cartilage. The site of occurrence is mostly the 2nd to 4th costal cartilage beside the sternum, with the 2nd costal cartilage being the most common, and occasionally it can also occur in the costal arch. This disease often affects a single rib, but occasionally multiple ribs or both sides of the ribs are affected at the same time. There is obvious local tenderness, and the pain radiates severely to the scapula or side shoulder, upper arm, and armpit of the back, and is aggravated by deep breathing, coughing, and activity. Because the lesion is located in the upper part of the breast, there is also referred pain in the breast on the same side, and female patients mistakenly think they have breast pain and seek medical treatment. The course of the disease may last for several hours or days, but it may relapse and usually heal itself within a few months, but in some cases it may last for several years.

2. Infectious costochondritis

The local skin will become red, swollen, hot and painful, with chest pain being the main symptom. Most of the symptoms are of this type first, with varying degrees of severity. Patients are afraid to take deep breaths or cough due to chest pain, which can easily lead to lung infection. Soft tissue necrosis can form abscesses, and rupture of abscesses can form sinus tracts. Patients often have obvious systemic infection symptoms.

How to treat rib inflammation

1. Drug treatment: Take anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs such as prednisone, or antiviral drugs such as Virulin. Relying on various hormone drugs to achieve analgesic effects can only temporarily relieve pain but cannot cure costochondritis. Moreover, long-term use of hormone drugs will produce multiple side effects on the human body, further reducing the body's immunity and even increasing the body's resistance to drugs, making the disease more difficult to cure.

2. Surgical treatment: If the disease is serious and the pain is severe, the diseased hyperplastic costal cartilage can be removed. On the one hand, surgical resection is traumatic and high-risk, causing great damage to the patient's body; on the other hand, various infectious complications are very likely to occur after the operation, such as pneumonia, soft tissue necrosis, abscesses, etc., and are more likely to cause costochondritis again, increasing the difficulty of treatment and the patient's own pain.

3. Plaster treatment: directly apply to the affected area, the drug is absorbed through the skin and penetrates into the lesion from the outside to the inside. Externally, it can remove the wind, cold and dampness that are stagnant in the chest, and relax the meridians and dredge the collaterals; internally, it can soothe the liver and regulate qi, promote qi and activate blood circulation, so as to achieve the effect of reducing swelling and relieving pain. It can promote blood circulation, improve the internal environment of the body, and enhance the body's resistance. It can dispel wind and dredge the collaterals, soothe the liver and regulate qi, promote qi and activate blood circulation, so as to eliminate superficial evil and support the healthy qi, treat both inside and outside, quickly reduce swelling and relieve pain, and thus cure costochondritis.