Signs and Symptoms
The main symptom of pleurisy is a sharp or stabbing pain in the chest that gets worse with deep breathing, coughing, sneezing or laughing. The pain may stay in one place, or it may spread to the shoulder or back. Sometimes it becomes a fairly constant dull ache.
Depending on its cause, pleurisy may be accompanied by other symptoms:
- Shortness of breath
- Cough
- Fever and chills
- Rapid, shallow breathing
- Unexplained weight loss
- Sore throat followed by pain and swelling in the joints
- Diarrhoea
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Coughing up blood
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