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 is inflammation of the pleura membrane covering the lungs. Pleurisy is also known as pleuritis and can cause chest pain with breathing. Around 2,000 people are admitted to hospital with pleurisy in England each year.Part of a doctor's diagnosis of pleurisy is listening to the chest to check for a distinctive dry and crunching sound with each breath.iral infection is probably the most common cause of pleurisy. Other causes include the following: 1  Lung infections, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis. 2  Diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, liver diseases and pulmonary embolism.