If you suddenly noticed that the habitual comfortable shoes became small, they seemed to hang weights on your feet, you will be "lucky" to face swelling. To find out the reason for the swelling of the legs is the first step on the way to getting rid of discomfort.
How to relieve swelling on the legs?
Swelling of the legs signals the manifestation of a disease. Most often, the legs become swollen due to:
- insufficient kidney work;
- cardiovascular diseases;
- inflammation of the joints;
- oncological diseases.
It is worth a thorough examination and identify the disease. It should be noted that swelling of the legs during oncology can occur both for reasons of tumors or metastasis in the tissues of the limbs, and as symptoms of concomitant diseases of the kidneys, heart or vessels. But how to remove swelling on your legs, to feel at least temporary relief? To do this, you must limit the use of salt and liquid. At the first convenient opportunity, you should take a position of the body where the legs are above the head. For a while you will have to give up tight shoes, as well as high heels. Taking diuretics will relieve excess fluid and help reduce swelling. As such drugs, it is better to use folk remedies for leg edemas: infusions, teas, herbal teas. In such cases, broths (fruits and leaves), dogrose, parsley, burdock, and also the juices of the viburnum, mountain ash and lemon proved to be the best.
Edema of the feet - treatment
Temporary measures are taken, but do swelling come back again and again? The disease that caused this condition requires urgent treatment. Let's consider some cases of edema of legs and possible variants of their treatment.
- If it is a kidney disease, the doctor will prescribe the use of anti-inflammatory drugs and diuretics. Decrease in high values of protein in the urine is manifested by a decrease in swelling of the legs.
- In the case of heart failure, with swelling of the legs, you may have to struggle all your life. To distinguish puffiness of this kind is easy. It is necessary to press a finger on a problem place. After pressing, a fossa forms, which does not disappear for a few seconds. Supportive therapy will help restore blood circulation and remove swelling of the legs.
- There are also cases when only one limb is affected. For example, the left leg swells, and the right one looks the same. Such a condition has a formidable name for lymphostasis or lymphedema and can not be treated with any medication or surgical treatment. The only chance to get rid of swelling is the constant wearing of compression linen.
- Edema of the knee joint can talk about inflammation. Special ointments and gels give a positive result in the treatment of such a disease.
- If the legs swell in the evening, it is probably a venous insufficiency. Vessel constriction due to the appearance of thrombi, cholesterol plaques slows the circulation of the lower extremities. As a result, after loads or
prolonged preservation of the sitting position, at the end of the day sore and swollen legs. Diseases of blood vessels and veins require careful examination and, possibly, even surgical intervention. Special cooling gels, compression tights, shoes without heels and a minimal load on the legs will significantly ease the condition. - Edema of the leg after fracture is associated with the processes of bone healing, bone congestion and excessive blood flow to the fracture site in the process of recovery. Such edema can be reduced by electrophoresis, compresses and trays with sea salt and regular active motor development of the injured leg.