Pills from leg swelling

For the treatment of puffiness of the lower extremities, various herbal preparations and medications are used. The latter come from two large groups - diuretics (diuretics) and drugs that increase the elasticity and strength of the vascular walls. It is important that the tablets from the edema of the legs are selected, respectively, the cause of the problem and the disease that provokes the symptom.

Names of diuretic tablets with edema of the feet

As a rule, puffiness refers to stagnant phenomena, which are good for diuretics or saluretics. One of the most famous, safe and effective diuretics is Furosemide. Its peculiarity is the possibility of using even with renal failure combined with very rapid action.

It should be noted that Furosemide produces not only a diuretic, but also an antihypertensive effect due to the expansion of peripheral vessels and, consequently, a decrease in the intensity of blood flow. Therefore, it should not be taken with pronounced hypotension.

Here what else tablets can be drunk at edemas of legs or foots:

Treatment of leg edema listed tablets should be performed only after consultation with the treating specialist, a series of laboratory tests and assess the risk of developing allergic reactions to the active ingredients of the drugs.

The fact is that diuretics can cause a lot of negative side effects, including quite dangerous conditions:

What kind of pills help with swelling of the legs with varicose veins and diabetes?

The cause of puffiness in the described diseases is a high permeability of the vascular wall and a decrease in its elasticity. In this case diuretics produce only a temporary effect and can do more harm than help. Therefore, special medications are prescribed that normalize the venous circulation and strengthen the vessels. These include:

The presented medicamentous agents belong to the group of angioprotectors and venotonicks. Due to their regular use, the tone of blood vessels and veins, their walls become less tensile and more resilient. In addition, static, stagnant phenomena decrease, hemodynamics significantly improves. Such effects are achieved by eliminating the adhesion of leukocytes to the endothelium on the walls of the vessels, respectively, eliminating their clogging and accumulation of excess fluid in surrounding soft tissues.

At the same time, there are practically no side effects in venotonicks. Only in some patients, in rare cases (less than 1%), neurovegetative disorders occur, as well as dyspeptic disorders. As a rule, they pass independently without the need for special symptomatic therapy.