What is it about?

Difficulty walking up stairs is quite a broad term that can include multiple body systems by reporting a problem. These include respiratory system, cardiovascular system (heart + vessels) and support system (joints, muscles).

Primarily, people tend to have trouble breathing. This is expressed most often that one comes two stories, sometimes only one, and in the worst cases, only a few steps and have to stop and breathe.This flag shows two ways (if we ignore the poor condition or sudden running up the stairs, which means nothing pathological), on diseases of the respiratory system and secondly diseases of the cardiovascular system. If a person is a smoker and has breathing (respiratory) problems, it is quite clear justification. Although smoking increases the vital lung capacity, deteriorates breathing. But in people who smoke and have no other health problems, there is no question went a few steps further and they could not. Another option, if we are still talking about diseases of the respiratory system can be directly various lung diseases. So extensive lung damage that a man experienced trouble walking up stairs, may be responsible for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, when the patient is not able to influence the disease’s full stale air. The problem may also occur in asthmatics, but this situation is hypothetical because to induce an asthma attack need factors (insults) much more than mere walking up stairs.

If the problem is really big shock, it means that the patient really has a problem to go a few steps, sucked in stew, it illustrates the problem rather heart disease. Mostly these are variouscirculatory failure or valvular heart disease – valvular insufficiency, congenital valvular defects.

Generally, defects in the heart causing wrong adding blood both cardiac and peripheral portions of the body. This is manifested pain hypoperfusion area.

Regarding vascular system, thus leading cause pain that is felt when walking in general, not only walking up stairs is peripheral arterial disease (PAOD abbreviation). Ischemia means local blood supply that area, which can cause damage, necrosis (escheat) or heart attack.

Regarding another system, this time the support can for problems walking up stairs especially arthrosis large weight-bearing joints – the knee and hip.

What to do?

If climbing stairs breathless and have difficulty walking up several floors such that it is restrictive for you, definitely consult a doctor. It will perform a complete examination by listening to the lungs and heart, through the chest X-ray and heart after a possible departure to the specialized department dealing directly examination of the heart and circulation. It is definitely necessary if there are problems of the heart is necessary as soon as possible to choose the appropriate treatment possiblysurgery if your condition permits.

Information at the end

As already described above, it may mean a few options. You have to cure the flu or other respiratory (breathing) disease, which will temporarily act difficulty breathing and increases your heart rate and blood pressure, which is reflected in your physical part, or you have in recent years fallen out of shape, or are a heavy smoker.

These cases are still optimistic, because if for the above options answer is negative, the problem is much more complex and need to seek medical help. The possibilities of what you can be, as mentioned above.