Swelling of the legs - causes and treatment

With a problem like swollen feet, many women of different ages are facing. The liquid that has accumulated where it does not follow is not just unpleasant and ugly. The causes of edema of the legs may be diseases that require serious treatment.

Causes of leg edema

To choose a method for treating edema and pain in the legs, you need to know the reason for their appearance. This phenomenon is observed when:

• kidney, thyroid and heart diseases, accompanied by acute heart failure;
• inflammation or thrombosis of veins;
• stasis of lymph in the extremities;
• diabetes mellitus;
• gestosis;
• varicose veins;
• cirrhosis of the liver.

Also, the causes of severe swelling of the legs may have a physiological origin and treatment is not necessary. Often the lower limbs swell after salty foods and regular consumption of large amounts of liquid. There may be swelling in the summer heat, when the body starts to protect against overheating. One of them is the widening of peripheral vessels, which causes a decrease in pressure and a violation of microcirculatory processes, which leads to a rapid accumulation of fluid in the tissues.

The legs of those who spend a lot of time in an uncomfortable pose, or after staying in a standing position for a long time, swell. Because of this, the veins increase pressure, and they can not perform their functions in full.

Treatment of leg swelling

If you do not want to perform medicamentous treatment of leg edema and the reasons for the appearance of this problem are purely physiological, then it is necessary to do special gymnastics. Effective exercises are:

1. Walk like a couple of minutes on your fingers.
2. Press the heel to the floor, and then immediately raise the sock.
3. Squeeze and spread all the toes.
4. Make several rotational movements with your feet.
5. Try barefoot to raise a small object from the floor, such as a pencil.

If the reason that the legs swell in women in kidney and heart diseases, treatment should be medicated. In this case, therapy should always be aimed at both eliminating the underlying ailment and this symptom. Perfectly removes edema, helps restore normal blood circulation and strengthens the walls of capillaries and veins:

• gel Essaven;
• Lyoton ;
• Venitan;
• Heparin ointment.

Have your legs swelled and hurt? Then use Troxevasit. This tool will strengthen the walls of the capillaries and veins, and also has a cooling and analgesic effect.

Treatment of edema of the feet with folk remedies

If you know that the causes of edema are not dangerous to health, and do not want to carry out treatment with drugs, you can use folk methods. Cope with this problem can be with a mixture of turpentine and castor oil (proportions 1 to 2). This means rub your legs and put on cotton socks.

Good cleanses puffiness astragalus:

1. To make it, you need 10 g of dry grass to soak a glass of boiling water, cool, drain.
2. Take the drug for 3 tablespoons for 14 days.

If the cause of the appearance of edema and pain in the legs - the expansion of veins , treatment of folk remedies should be conducted in several courses. Use in this case is best therapeutic baths with sea salt or infusions from birch buds and extract of field horsetail.

To get rid of edema:

1. Pour 2 tbsp. flaxseed 500 ml of water.
2. Bring the mixture to a boil, cool.
3. In this medicine you can add lemon juice.
4. Use this drug 4 times a day for 100 ml.

Those who have puffiness appeared and have problems with the kidneys, you can use broths of berries or elderberry cortices (10 grams per 500 ml of water). They need to take a couple of tablespoons 2 times a day.