Muscle cramp - a common painful condition in which there is a sharp short-term muscle tension, which invariably accompanies severe pain.
Keeps one foot with a sharp movement, hypothermia, due to the lack of various trace elements in the body.
How to help yourself and how to get rid of a sharp pain with muscle spasm?
What to do if you have brought your foot together - possible causes of the problem
A muscle spasm accompanied by an extremely unpleasant sensation occurs for various reasons, which only a specialist can figure out.
So, a cramp in children is a consequence of a birth injury, a lack of calcium. Adults experience this unpleasant symptom due to a lack of oxygen, as a result of injuries, tumors, malformations of the brain, epilepsy, meningitis, encephalitis, etc.
In addition, a cramp indicates a lack of glucose, magnesium, calcium, as well as a violation of water-salt metabolism. Muscle cramps are a common occurrence during pregnancy. Anyone who uses tranquilizers, antidepressants, and too much coffee knows firsthand what such a “leg cramped”.
Particularly sensitive natures may spasm from bright light or loud sound. Muscle cramps are also frequent at high temperature.
Seizures are also felt with:
• varicose veins
• dehydration and calcium loss
• physical activity
• narrowing of blood vessels
• uncomfortable pose
• diseases of the spine, etc.
What to do if you have brought your foot together - effective methods
First aid for cramps - massage. Its task is to relax the muscle as much as possible. Where to start? First of all, the leg should be stretched. If the calf muscle is flattened, grasp the toes with your hands and pull towards you. A prick of a pin also helps.
If you have a cramp at night, lower both legs and place them on the floor. Then stand up slowly. Thus, you can try to normalize blood circulation. Banal rubbing and clapping with your palm helps well. Perform massage movements from the very tips of the fingers to the heel and knee. After the manipulations, lie down on the bed and, slightly raising your leg, lie down.
In addition to the described steps to prevent cramping, rubbing the limb until it is completely warmed up helps. In this case, you can squeeze the muscle by strongly pressing the index finger into the epicenter of pain. Press for 15 minutes, remembering to breathe deeply.
If the cramp catches you along the way, find a support and lean against it with both hands, and take your sore leg back so that the foot is completely on the floor. So the muscle stretches well.
With existing pain, even if the spasm has receded, bandage the leg with an elastic bandage.
What to do if you brought your foot together - folk remedies
For the treatment of seizures, medicinal plants are widely used:
1. Brew goose legs like tea (1 tablespoon of grass per glass of water), let the product brew and drink 3 times a day in a third of a glass.
2. Pour a large spoonful of linden flowers with boiling water (300 ml). Let the healing composition infuse. Then strain it, add honey to taste and drink like tea at night.
3. Thyme - an excellent remedy for cramps. Brew a large spoon of grass with a glass of boiling water, let it brew, strain and drink a little before meals (1 large spoon).
4. If the cause of the seizure is female diseases, use yarrow infusion. Pour 2 tablespoons traditionally with a glass of boiling water, let the drug infuse and take, having filtered, 1 tablespoon three times a day. Do not forget to add honey to the warm composition.
5. Convulsions in children are treated with fresh dill juice. For a single use, a teaspoon of the product is enough. Mix dill juice with a little milk and honey. Let's drink the baby three times a day after meals.
6. Coriander is effective for cramps. Boil 1 small spoonful of plant seeds with boiling water (1 cup) and, having insisted and filtered, take a third of a glass 3 times a day.
What to do if your leg is brought down - external remedies
Compresses
1. Essential oils. Boil water. Drop a couple drops of lavender oil, marjoram or ginger. Place a cotton cloth on top of the water, wait until it is saturated with the healing solution, wring it out and attach it to the sore leg.
2. Bloodroot. Pour 4 tablespoons of the herb with water (600 ml), put the container with the composition on the fire and boil for several minutes. Let it stand, strain. Ready broth use for medical compresses.
Warm baths
1. Pour tansy flowers (a large spoon) with boiling water (1 cup), let it brew. Having stretched, pour in a basin with warm water and lower your legs there. The duration of the procedure is 15 minutes.
2. Dissolve a couple of large tablespoons of salt in a bowl of warm water and lower the legs into the medicinal composition for several minutes.
3. In a bathtub filled with hot water, drop half a glass of soda and a quarter glass of ginger powder - the strongest anti-inflammatory agent. Mix everything and take water procedures for 15 minutes.
Rubbing lemon
Lemon is an effective medicine against seizures, if they are caused by poor circulation. In the early morning, rub the feet and legs with a freshly squeezed lemon. Do not wipe your feet, wait until they are dry and put on woolen socks. Spend treatment for 2 weeks.
What to do if you brought your foot in the water
With the onset of the summer period, many go on vacation to the sea. A low water temperature or a sharp muscle strain can provoke a cramp in anyone. In such cases, even an experienced swimmer is at risk. In order to prevent seizures, go into the water gradually, allowing the body to get used to its temperature.
If, during the swim, you still feel that you are reducing your leg or both, take the following measures:
• Change your body position. Swim on your back - roll over onto your chest and vice versa.
• If you feel a pulling pain in the hand, clench your fist, sharply throw your hand to the side and unclench. Do the exercise several times.
• If you have brought your foot in the calf muscle, pull the foot towards you, clasping it with both hands.
• Reduced thigh muscle? Grasp the leg from the outside (below the lower leg), lie on your back.
• Old proven method - prick your affected leg with a sharp object. For example, a pin. Experienced swimmers often prudently pin this item to swimming trunks or a swimsuit.
• Try to get people's attention, calm down and don't panic. Perform all manipulations quickly and accurately.
Attention! Elementary obedience will help to avoid unpleasant consequences. Do not swim for buoys, but, knowing that you do not hold well on water, swim near the shore.
Cramps
The cause of frequent muscle cramps is the lack of essential trace elements such as magnesium, calcium. In order to get rid of the unpleasant sensations associated with a seizure, you should organize your diet in such a way that all useful substances arrive in sufficient quantities.
Basic nutritional recommendations:
1. Observe drinking regimen. Water helps to cleanse the cells, fully absorbed by substances entering the body with food.
2. To avoid swelling that can impair blood circulation, eat a limited amount of salt. A day is enough a couple of small pinches.
3. If there is a lack of calcium, use cottage cheese, hard cheese, beans, and greens. Use eggshell as a calcium supplement. Before chopping, fry it in the oven by placing it on a baking sheet. This will disinfect the product. Add shell powder to cottage cheese, cereals. The recommended dose is 1.5-3 g.
4. Eat garlic. It is rich in silicon, which helps muscles relax.
5. Let your table be rich in vegetables and fruits. Lay on cereals made from whole grain cereals.
To get rid of muscle spasms, use the proven methods described above, and try to avoid excessive physical exertion. Also, review your diet and give up bad habits.
Muscle spasm, as has been said, can occur for various reasons. If cramp is your constant problem, only a qualified specialist will help to solve it, based solely on the individual characteristics of your body.
