What to do when your legs and feet swell during pregnancy

The most common type of leg and foot swelling during pregnancy is postural ankle edema. Avoid being sedentary and elevate both lower limbs as much as possible, and take appropriate walks to move around. In addition, cardiogenic edema is also commonly seen in cardiac insufficiency and should be treated symptomatically at the cardiology department. For swollen feet during pregnancy, there are several considerations as follows: 1. You should ensure that pregnant women eat enough protein, with animal foods such as fish, shrimp, meat, eggs, milk and bean foods every day, which are rich in high-quality protein. Pregnant women with anemia should also pay attention to eating liver 2-3 times a week and appropriate iron supplementation; 2, it is recommended that pregnant women eat a quantitative amount of fruits and vegetables, fruits and vegetables contain a variety of essential trace elements and vitamins, which can improve the body’s resistance, strengthen metabolism, and detoxification diuretic effect; 3, pregnant women with leg and foot edema should eat light food, can not eat too salty food, especially salted vegetables, pickled products are not recommended to eat The pregnant women with serious edema should control the water intake appropriately to reduce the symptoms of edema; 5. Pregnant women should eat less or not eat indigestible and flatulent food to avoid causing abdominal distension, so that poor blood flow reflux aggravates edema; 6. It is recommended that pregnant women should wear comfortable shoes after the third trimester of pregnancy to avoid pressure causing edema.