Pregnant women with swollen feet in the absence of allergies and other contraindications can be appropriate to use salt water foot soak, but need to pay attention to soaking time as well as water temperature.
Pregnant women who are simply with the increase in pregnancy weeks caused by edema, may be due to the lower vena cava reflux obstruction. Soaking your feet in salt water may help eliminate edema to some extent. However, care should be taken not to use too hot water and not to soak the feet for too long.
If there is a combination of disease factors, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease and other causes of edema, then salt water foot soak may not play a big role. Need to consult a doctor in time, follow the doctor’s advice to choose the appropriate way of treatment.
Therefore, if you have edema during pregnancy, you need to go to the regular hospital in time to find out the cause of the disease, and improve the treatment of the symptoms and causes.