Feeling, when there is a sharp pain in the areas of muscle strain - not from pleasant ones, and is familiar to many. You are very lucky if you have never experienced these tingling sensations. Shrunks cramp more often at night, when the relaxed body is warm, plunging into sleep. They can also arise during active sports.
Why there are cramps?
The causes of muscle cramps are diverse. They can begin because of a lack of salt in the body, which goes away due to increased sweating or due to the monotonous movement. Also, the factors of the appearance of seizures may be a lack of blood circulation in the muscles, a stab of the body with a needle, a sharp loud sound, alcohol abuse.
Night cramps are more often caused by stresses. Less often, cramps are the result of diseases of the nervous system, poisoning, metabolic disorders. Older people or children complain more often of cramps. In the latter, in turn, convulsions can occur due to insufficient maturity of the brain and nerve fibers.
Muscle cramps can range from mild to very severe forms. In weak forms, convulsive twitching, tingling in the foci of origin, less often observed darkening in the eyes, confused consciousness. At an average severity level - the incontinence of urine and feces is added to the previous symptoms, a brief fainting may occur. The most severe form of seizures is an epileptic seizure. In such cases, there is nausea, dizziness, foam from the mouth.
What causes cramps?
Most likely, many of us had to feel how awkward it was to cramp caviar. This is quite unpleasant, but if it worries you regularly, then you should treat it with due attention. Such a trace element as calcium, more precisely its deficiency, affects the cramps paramountly. In the diet, potassium and magnesium should also be present daily. They are found in foods such as bananas, watermelons, oranges, baked potatoes.
Also, the cause of muscle cramps can be muscle strain, especially if you are actively engaged in swimming, aerobics, sports dances. The third reason is relevant now - it's a banal hypothermia.
Weak blood supply in the muscles can also cause seizures of the extremities.
Treatment of muscle spasms
Treatment of this ailment depends on the type of seizures. Effective reception of anticonvulsants - "Hexamidine", "Diphenin". A good preventive method will be thermal procedures, self-massage, and also rest.
In hot weather, the patient should drink cold water with salt (1 teaspoon per liter of water) to prevent dehydration. Improve local
If suddenly seized by a spasm, you can try to help yourself. For this, the muscle in the sore spot needs to be stretched by doing stretching exercises. But here it will be necessary to overcome the pain threshold.
As you already understood from the above, certain trace elements should always be on your table, and the procedures for relaxing the muscles will save you from unpleasant sensations.
But if self-medication does not give a proper result, do not delay, and necessarily follow the reflexologist who will perform local treatment and prescribe medications already.