Sitting for a long time after the lower limbs mild bruising caused by swelling of the calves, there is no fast way to reduce swelling, can be improved by changing posture, foot soak, exercise, diet and other ways.
1. Change posture: avoid standing or sitting for a long time, and get up and move appropriately. Don’t stilt your legs when sitting; elevate your lower limbs when resting to promote the return of blood to the lower limbs; when sleeping, use pillows to cushion your legs.
2. Soak your feet: before going to bed, play a pot of hot water, put your feet in, soak for 20-30 minutes or so, to promote local blood circulation, so as to alleviate the phenomenon of edema.
3. Exercise: Sedentary leg swelling can be enhanced by strengthening the movement, to promote the discharge of water, more recommended high leg lifting, bouncing type of exercise, avoid weight bearing, so as not to aggravate the occurrence of edema.
4. Diet: Diet as light as possible, less salt, can be used to choose Job’s tears, red beans, corn, etc. to promote diuretic swelling.
In addition, you can also massage the calf muscles to relieve sedentary leg swelling. If the calf pain and swelling, change posture and other measures have not been relieved, may be considered to have nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, right heart failure, lower limb vascular lesions and other diseases caused by, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible to improve the examination, to clarify the cause of the disease, standardized treatment.