How to treat costochondritis 5 effective treatments

Costochondritis is a chronic inflammation that occurs in the ribs. It may only cause a little pain in daily life, so it is easy to be ignored. However, as the condition of costochondritis progresses, the pain will gradually increase and it will become increasingly difficult to breathe through the chest. Therefore, when you feel pain in your chest, you should seek medical attention in time to determine whether you have costochondritis.

1. Drug treatment

Treatment: Take anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs such as prednisone, or antiviral drugs such as Vibrio.

Disadvantages: 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. Physical therapy

Treatment: Topical novocaine and prednisolone blockade.

Disadvantages: No essential effect on the disease, very easy to relapse, multiple closures cause great damage to local tissues.

3. Surgical treatment

Treatment: If the disease is serious and the pain is severe, the diseased and hyperplastic costal cartilage can be removed.

Disadvantages: 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.

4. Scraping therapy

Therapy: Traditional Chinese medicine scraping therapy is used, mainly scraping the Ren meridian, foot-taiyang bladder meridian, hand-jueyin pericardium meridian, etc.

Disadvantages: Not suitable for everyone, such as heart patients, hemophilia patients, etc. Gua Sha can cause certain damage to the skin. It takes a long time to wait after scraping. Gua Sha requires doctors to use great force, and patients may find it difficult to endure such severe pain during the process.

5. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

Medicinal use: The basic formula is 20g of honeysuckle, 12g of saposhnikovia divaricata, 6g of angelica dahurica, 15g of angelica sinensis, 10g of tangerine peel, 10g of pangolin, 9g of Fritillaria thunbergii, 15g of trichosanthes, 10g of frankincense, 10g of myrrh, 12g of red peony root, 6g of Gleditsia sinensis, and 6g of licorice. For those with obvious bloating and pain due to qi stagnation, add 12g of Cyperus rotundus and 12g of Curcuma aromatica. For those with obvious blood stasis and stinging pain, add 12g of Trillium and 10g of Earthworm. For those with excessive dampness and pain, add 12g of Atractylodes lancea, 10g of Gentiana macrophylla, and 12g of Dihuangwan. For those who suffer from increased pain and fear of cold on rainy days, add 10g of cinnamon twig, 4g of asarum and 12g of notopterygium. Take 1 dose per day, half boiled with water and half with wine, divided into 2 doses. 7 days is a course of treatment.