There are many causes of leg and foot edema, such as heart failure, kidney failure, hypothyroidism, etc., specifically to the hospital to check the cause of edema. Different causes, different treatment methods, heart failure need to correct heart failure, kidney failure need dialysis and other treatments, hypothyroidism need to supplement the thyroxine drug treatment.
1. Heart failure: pulmonary heart disease and other causes of right heart failure leg and foot edema due to high venous pressure in the lower extremity blood vessels, a large amount of blood can not return to the right heart, causing edema in both legs and feet.
Treatment methods to correct the heart disease caused by heart failure, control triggers such as anti-infection or arrhythmia and other treatments, diuretic commonly used spironolactone, etc., commonly used digitalis drugs such as digoxin, angiotensin inhibitors such as enalapril, etc., depending on the symptoms and conditions to determine the use of drugs.
2. Kidney failure: renal failure caused by kidney disease, bilateral leg and foot edema is due to the decline in glomerular filtration function, sodium and water retention caused by edema. Kidney failure treatment is usually hemodialysis or kidney transplantation.
3. Hypothyroidism: decreased substance metabolism causes bilateral lower extremity mucous edema. Hypothyroidism is treated with levothyroxine sodium tablets.
The above drugs should be used under the guidance of a doctor.
There are other causes of foot edema, the treatment is often different, you need to go to the hospital as early as possible to check the cause, and active treatment.