Leg pain in pregnant women may be caused by excessive exercise, weather effects, positional reasons, calcium deficiency, and increased load.
1. Excessive exercise: when walking too much, standing for a long time, etc., the leg muscle metabolite lactic acid increases, which will cause leg pain, which can be relieved after sufficient rest.
2. Weather effects: When pregnant women’s legs are cold, such as blowing air conditioning, it can also cause leg pain. It can be relieved after keeping warm.
3. Positional reasons: the uterus enlarges after pregnancy, and standing for a long time compresses the iliac veins, causing obstruction of venous return in the lower limbs, leading to lower limb edema and causing pain symptoms, which can be alleviated by resting in bed and elevating the affected limbs.
4. Calcium deficiency: With the increase of pregnancy weeks and the growth of the fetus during pregnancy, the body needs more and more calcium, when the lack of calcium can cause muscle spasms in the lower limbs, and leg pain, you need to start supplementing calcium under the guidance of the doctor from the mid-pregnancy.
5. Overload: After pregnancy, the body weight gradually increases, the leg muscles are overloaded, resulting in leg muscle strain pain.
When pregnant women continue to suffer from leg pain that cannot be relieved, they can go to the hospital and under the guidance of the doctor to find out the cause and give appropriate treatment.