Clinical causes of edema include cardiac dysfunction, severe renal failure, local skin infections, and allergic dermatitis, etc. The method of eliminating edema is to give cardiotonic, diuretic, anti-infective, and anti-allergic medications.
1. Abnormal cardiac function: Due to the increase of the anterior and posterior load of the heart, the return blood volume of the heart is reduced, which will lead to blood stagnation in the blood vessels, and at the initial stage, it will form the double lower limbs depressed edema, and gradually the symptoms of heart failure worsening, which will lead to the edema of the whole body, and the treatment is mainly to give strong cardiac (e.g., digoxin or cediran) and diuretic (furosemide, spironolactone) medication.
2. Severe renal failure: due to the kidney’s filtration and reabsorption function abnormalities, resulting in generalized edema phenomenon, in this regard, the main target is to give some diuretic (hydrochlorothiazide, furosemide) and renal protection (chloretzane, valsartan) drug treatment.
3. Skin infections: due to severe local skin infections, redness, swelling and oozing phenomenon, in the treatment of sensitive antibiotic therapy, such as amoxicillin capsules, levofloxacin capsules and so on.
4. Allergic dermatitis: due to skin contact with some kind of irritating substances and the occurrence of the disease reaction, can also be manifested as localized edema, usually accompanied by varying degrees of itching. In terms of treatment, the main thing is to carry out some anti-allergic drugs, such as topical dexamethasone cream, oral loratadine tablets and so on.
The causes of hand edema are many, you need to go to the regular hospital in time, improve the relevant examination, clear the cause of the disease, and then be targeted treatment.