Brief measures to protect against lymphedema in daily life include preventing infection, avoiding tight clothing, promoting lymphatic return, avoiding overwork of the affected limb, and dietary modification.
1. Prevent infection: lymphedema is mostly secondary to infectious diseases, and skin infection should be prevented. The skin of lymphedema patients will become rough, and if re-infected, it will lead to skin lesions, ulceration, and slow healing, so it is necessary to keep the skin clean and hygienic.
2. Avoid tight clothes: you should wear loose and breathable cotton clothes to reduce the friction between clothes and skin, and avoid clothes that are too tight muscle overwork.
3. Promote lymphatic reflux and avoid overwork of the affected limbs: lymphoedema should move the affected limbs, actively or passively do the movement of the affected limbs, using mechanical methods or techniques, along the direction of the lymphatic vessels to the proximal end of the extrusion, to promote the return of lymphatic fluid.
4. Dietary regulation: low-salt diet, avoid spicy stimulating food. Obese people also need to lose weight to reduce the increase in intra-abdominal pressure caused by the obstruction of lymphatic reflux.
Lymphoedema should be treated as soon as possible.