Edema. Edema, or retention of fluid, can cause swelling and puffiness in your legs. Exercise is often recommended as a treatment to relieve edema. However, exercise that involves standing for a long time can cause fluid to pool in your legs, causing swelling. Swelling may also occur after slow walking or other exercise without significant leg motion, such as playing catch.
Pleurisy is an inflammation of the lining of the lungs and chest (the pleura) that leads to chest pain when you take a breath or cough. Pleurisy may develop when you have lung inflammation due to infection, such as a viral infection, pneumonia, or tuberculosis. It may also occur with: Asbestos-related disease.
Pleurisy means inflammation of the pleura, the membrane that covers the lungs and lines the inside of the chest cavity. Depending on its cause, pleurisy can be associated with an accumulation of fluid in the space between the lungs and chest wall called a pleural effusion, or it can be dry pleurisy, which has no fluid accumulation. Pleurisy can develop many ways, including: 1  Lung infection â In industrialized nations, bacterial pneumonia (lung infection) resulting from staphylococci, pneumococci, Haemophilus influenzae or other organisms is a frequent cause of pleurisy.