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- Pleurisy
- SYMPTOMS may include sharp sudden, sticking pain in the chest and coughing
- and breathing makes it worse. Breathing is usually shallow and rapid.
- CAUSES are an inflammation of the membrane investing the lungs and may be
- the result of an injury to plura, complications of pneumonia and infection.
- TREATMENT. Antibiotics, medication, wrap chest with adhesive bandages.