Edema is not necessarily caused by kidney disease, and kidney disease does not necessarily result in edema. The causes of edema may be caused by physical cirrhosis, heart failure, kidney disease, and medications. The most common cause of edema is constitutional edema, which is more common in women.
In fact, most people with edema are suffering from constitutional edema and do not need any treatment. However, it is best to consult a physician for a simple screening test of the heart, liver, kidneys and adrenal glands at the time of occurrence, so that the cause can be identified and treated early or followed up with long-term observation. What’s wrong with swollen feet? Remember, don’t go to the doctor and abuse diuretics because you can’t find the cause (diagnosed as somatic edema), which will hurt your body and the people. Qu Xintao, Department of Orthopedics, General Hospital of Jinan Military Region
There are also some cases that occur around five days after the onset of menstruation, but in most of these patients, the onset of edema is not obviously related to menstruation. The cause of this type of somatic edema is still unclear. The characteristic feature is that there is no edema when you wake up in the morning, but in the afternoon, your calves are swollen and your weight may even increase by more than one kilogram. At night, when resting in bed, the urine is particularly abundant. These patients are in fact as healthy and normal as the general population, and therefore do not need any treatment at all.
What is the problem with swollen feet in diabetic patients?
Diabetic foot will appear swollen feet, and some even can not wear shoes, so diabetic patients are very difficult, but why diabetic foot patients will be swollen feet? In order to do a good job of timely treatment, it is important to know the causes of swollen diabetic feet to avoid the possibility of amputation.
Diabetic patients with swollen feet, the main reason or the culprit of diabetes, diabetic patients once the foot swelling and other conditions, should promptly go to the hospital to find the causes of diabetic foot swelling, and receive regular treatment, never at home to treat themselves. At the same time, diabetic patients should also pay attention to daily self-examination of the feet, check the causes of diabetic foot swelling, pay attention to foot hygiene and health care; not to public places pedicure.
Patients should not repair corns and calluses on their own after the appearance of swollen feet, choose comfortable shoes and socks, and trim toenails correctly; do not use overly hot water to scald feet, and do not soak feet for more than 20 minutes. Among the causes of diabetic foot swelling, if you find a break in the skin, even if it is a little, you should find a diabetic foot disease medical professional to deal with it as soon as possible. Never delay for a long time, so that small problems do not become big problems.
Diabetic patients suffer from lower limb infections, ulcer formation and/or deep tissue destruction due to combined neuropathy and various degrees of peripheral vasculopathy. Clinically, as diabetic patients are affected by long-term hyperglycemia, lower limb vascular sclerosis, vessel wall thickening, and decreased elasticity, blood vessels are prone to thrombosis and set into plaques, which cause lower limb vascular occlusion and nerve damage at the branch ends, resulting in lower limb tissue lesions, which is the cause of diabetic foot swelling.
Clinically, diabetic foot is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus, which is getting more and more attention because of the seriousness of the danger of diabetic foot. Experts suggest that patients with swollen feet must be treated promptly, otherwise the consequences are unimaginable. Patients should also take good care of their diabetes in their daily lives to avoid the various complications that can cause it.
Causes of swollen legs and feet.
Lower limb swelling is clinically common and is mainly seen in the following disease-related swelling. ① Cardiac edema, patients with various heart diseases, when cardiac insufficiency, the body circulation is impaired, so that the lower extremity veins reduce the amount of cardiac blood return, causing edema;
(2) Hepatic edema, after hepatic steatosis occurs in various hepatitis, the synthesis of albumin by the liver is reduced, resulting in hypoproteinemia.
The decrease in plasma osmolality can cause swelling of the plant limbs; ③ renal swelling, acute and chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome patients, reduced glomerular filtration function, resulting in water and sodium retention in the body, in addition to a large amount of protein urine, resulting in hypoproteinemia, thus causing swelling; ④ hypothyroidism swelling.
When the thyroid gland function is low, mucopolysaccharide deposition in the patient’s dermis and the accumulation of excess hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate and water between cells can cause swelling of the lower extremities.
Due to obstruction of venous reflux, patients can develop lower limb edema.
Physiological edema: performance one: when standing, walking, squatting or sitting for a long time, you will find that the lower limbs or feet “tight”, women store is the most experienced, if a little string rest or change position after a period of time, the edema can be self-reduced, disappear. Two: Some people who are accustomed to “heavy mouth” in their diet often have swollen lower limbs. Third: Some middle-aged women suddenly find that their tires are fat after waking up in the morning, their eyelids and face are mildly puffy, and the skin of their lower limbs has sunken edema or a sense of tightness. With the passage of the day, it can gradually reduce and subside. Four: After taking certain drugs, puffiness appears in the win, hands and feet, and it will gradually subside after stopping the drugs. Fifth: Some healthy women have mild puffiness in the eye insurance, back of the hand, foot tread and even double lower gum, or with breast swelling and pain, heavy feeling in the pelvic area, as well as symptoms of neurogenic disorder such as irritability, irritability, insomnia, fatigue and headache in the week or half month before menstruation.
What is the swelling of pregnant women’s feet?
After 6 months of pregnancy, pregnant mothers usually have swollen legs, and some swollen areas are not only limited to the calves, but also the thighs, and even cause swelling in other parts of the body. This is a normal phenomenon that occurs in the second trimester of pregnancy, but soreness and swelling can also cause some discomfort to pregnant women.
To reduce the swelling pregnant women should not eat food too salty taste pregnant women should also pay attention at this time, eat more light food, keep a low salt diet. Pregnant women should not walk too much or stand for too long at this time, because walking and standing for a long time will increase the swelling of the body.
Before going to bed at night, it is best for family members to perform leg massage for pregnant women, which can reduce the soreness and swelling. When a pregnant woman sleeps, her legs and feet can be slightly elevated, which will help eliminate swelling. However, if it is a very serious swelling phenomenon, do not take it lightly and make sure to check blood pressure and urine at the hospital, and if there are any abnormalities, timely treatment should be carried out.
These are 9 kinds of food therapy recipes for elderly patients with swelling, you might as well try them, they might work! Wish you a speedy recovery!
1, red beans, peanuts, dates, 100 grams each, put a little rock sugar together with soup to eat.
2, mung beans, barley 100 grams each, cooked with soup to eat.
3. 1 carp weighing about 250 grams, 100 grams of adzuki beans, boil soup together to take.
4. Half of a hen or a child chicken, steamed with 100 grams of astragalus, drink soup and eat chicken.
5. 1 green-headed male duck, cooked with 1000 grams of winter melon in soup and eaten together.
6, 2 pork loin, 10 grams of dulcimer, 50 grams of walnuts, together with soup to eat.
7, 1 carp weighing 250 grams, 500 grams of winter melon, stewed with water, eat fish and eat melon soup.
8, 500 grams of winter melon, 30 grams of adzuki beans, add water, add a little salt, eat melon and drink soup.
9, corn beard, winter melon peel, adzuki bean each appropriate amount, decoction of tea drink, and even serve until the swelling disappears.