What Is Pleurisy?
5. Symptoms
The symptoms of pleurisy typically include a pain in the chest that gets worse when the patient coughs or sneezes. Even breathing will be enough to cause the patient pain in some cases. This can cause the patient to try and breathe shallowly to avoid pain, while their lungs might automatically stop expanding in response to the pain.
Depending on the cause of the condition, the patient may also have a fever. This tends to be the case if the pleurisy is being caused by an underlying infection. Pleurisy can also sometimes cause a cough, and this can aggravate some of the other symptoms further.
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