Most edema is caused by kidney or heart diseases, but sometimes ascites due to liver diseases, nutritional disorders caused by protein's deficiency or hormonal abnormalities of menopausal disorders can also cause edema.
If edema starts from the face and then spreads to the whole body, there is a great possibility of kidney disease, but it may also be acute nephritis or nephropathy.
If edema starts from the foot, it may be heart disease, hypoproteinemia, cirrhosis and so on.
In the third trimester, the whole body and feet are prone to edema; If the edema is serious, it may be toxemia of pregnancy.
If you press the edema with your fingers, the water will move and form a depression.
If you press it by hand, it will not sag, but it will still swell, which may be caused by hypothyroidism or side effects of drugs.
Edema caused by standing for a long time is not an abnormal phenomenon.
When edema occurs, limit the intake of water and salt; In order to expel excess water from the body, it is best to eat more foods with diuretic effect.
When the situation is serious and incurable, it must be diagnosed by a doctor.
If you want to take diuretics, you must be diagnosed by a doctor. Diuretics are best avoided.
Methods of early detection of edema
If foot edema is caused by heart disease, it is best to find it early. Press the tibia with your fingertips toward the bone for 30 seconds. If there is no edema, it will return to its original state. If there is a depression, it can be confirmed as edema. In addition, if you feel tight shoes, it may be one of the signals of edema.
Red beans have a good diuretic effect
I suggest you do a heart function test. ..
But:
Edema is not always a disease.
Edema is often a signal of heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, endocrine and other diseases, but some edema is not a manifestation of the disease, but a physiological reaction.
Some women aged 20-40 years old with idiopathic edema often have mild edema on eyelids and face after getting up in the morning, and depressed edema or tightness in lower limbs. As the activity goes on, it gradually fades and fades. Most scholars believe that it is related to neuropsychiatric factors and autonomic nervous dysfunction.
Reactive edema Some people, especially those who work at high temperature or are obese and inactive, are affected by the high temperature of the environment, the skin blood vessels spread, and body fluids permeate and accumulate in subcutaneous tissue, which often causes edema of hands and feet. After summer, it will fade by itself. But every summer, it will be repeated for many years.
Standing, walking, squatting or sitting for a long time can cause postural edema, which can be relieved and disappeared by itself after changing posture for a period of time.
Premenstrual edema Some healthy women have mild edema on eyelids, back of hands, ankles and even lower limbs, as well as symptoms such as irritability, insomnia, fatigue and headache within one week or half a month before menstrual cramps. When menstruation comes, symptoms such as edema can gradually subside.
Drug-induced edema, such as adrenocortical hormone, testosterone, androgen, insulin, thiourea, licorice and other drugs, can cause edema of face, hands and feet, and the edema will gradually subside after stopping taking drugs.
Don't worry about the above edema, not to mention the indiscriminate use of drugs. But if edema is caused by disease, we should actively treat the primary disease.
Physiological edema and fat reduction
Make a small diagnosis of edema.
Edema is often a sign of some diseases. Heart disease, liver disease, kidney disease, endocrine disease and some malnutrition diseases may all have edema symptoms, so in general, you should go to the hospital. But some edema is a physiological reaction. If you encounter the following "edema" troubles, you may wish to compare them.
Performance 1: Some middle-aged women, after getting up in the morning, suddenly find that their faces are fat, their eyelids and faces are slightly swollen, and the skin of their lower limbs has sunken edema or tightness. As the day goes by, it can be gradually reduced and subsided.
Diagnosis: Idiopathic edema, or edema with poor blood circulation. Facial edema mostly occurs in people with poor blood circulation and metabolism. This group includes people who are used to drinking a lot of water before going to bed, people who are often sedentary, people who have heavy eating habits, people who often stay up late, and people who are born with poor metabolism. The influence is that the effect of blood circulation system becomes worse, and it is too late to discharge excess wastewater in the body, and the water stays in capillaries and even seeps back into the skin, resulting in swelling and edema. This edema will slowly and automatically subside after getting up for a period of time.
Performance 2: Some people, especially those who are fat and inactive in hot summer, often have inexplicable lower limb edema due to the influence of environmental temperature difference, which will subside after summer.
Diagnosis: reactive edema. This situation is often due to the expansion of blood vessels on the body surface and the increase of arterial blood flow due to hot and high temperature; Superficial vein dilation increases capillary filtration pressure; Coupled with standing or sitting for a long time, body fluids ooze in the gaps of loose connective tissue under the skin and slowly flow back, thus causing edema of lower limbs, which is more common in obesity or the elderly.
Performance 3: Some people with "heavy eating habits" often have edema of lower limbs.
Diagnosis: Edema with nutritional imbalance. We have been emphasizing the "low-salt" diet, but some people just don't pay attention to it. When there is too much salt in the diet and some minerals are lacking, it is easy to cause malnutrition edema. If there is any chronic disease, it will be even more troublesome.
Performance 4: When standing, walking, squatting or sitting for a long time, you will find that your lower limbs or feet are "tight". Women are most familiar with shopping. If you take a short rest or change your posture for a period of time, the edema can be relieved and disappeared by yourself.
Diagnosis: Postural edema. In recent years, it has been found that when people stand upright, aldosterone secretion in the body increases, which can cause temporary water and sodium retention, thus causing edema. Some people who have to stand or sit for a long time at work, such as school teachers and operating room surgeons, are prone to edema below the knee due to the slow return of blood and water due to gravity.
Performance 5: Some healthy women have mild edema of eyelids, back of hand, ankles and even lower limbs one week or half before menstrual cramps, or accompanied by breast swelling and pain, heavy pelvic cavity, and neurosis symptoms such as irritability, insomnia, fatigue and headache.
Diagnosis: premenstrual edema. This kind of edema is related to the changes of menstrual cycle and endocrine function, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. When menstruation comes, symptoms such as increased urination and edema can gradually subside.
Expression 6: After taking some drugs, edema appears on the face, hands and feet, and the edema will gradually subside after stopping taking drugs.
Diagnosis: Drug-induced edema. If adrenocortical hormone, testosterone, androgen, insulin, thiourea, licorice and other drugs are used, it can cause water and sodium retention in the body and lead to edema.
Never be careless about edema, and be sure to find out the cause in time. Don't worry about the above edema, let alone use drugs indiscriminately, but if it is caused by disease, we should actively treat the primary disease.
Prescribe edema
For physiological edema, the following measures can be taken to prevent it.
1. Stay optimistic and stick to appropriate exercise for a long time, such as walking, jogging, fitness equipment exercise, etc. In order to enhance physical fitness and improve adaptability.
2. Choose foods rich in protein, vitamins and inorganic salts and low in fat, cholesterol, sugar and salt, and eat more celery, radish, spinach, tomatoes, soybeans, mushrooms, garlic, fruits and bean products.
3. Avoid standing for a long time, exercise your lower limbs regularly, and pay attention to lifting your lower limbs frequently.
4. Ensure good sleep and regular daily life.
These are nine treatment prescriptions for elderly patients with edema. You might as well try them. They may be effective! I wish you a speedy recovery!
1, 100g adzuki bean, peanut and jujube, add a little rock sugar and cook soup together.
2, mung bean, coix seed each100g, eat with soup.
3. Carp 1 weighs about 250g, and adzuki bean 100g. Put them together in the soup.
4. Half a hen or 1 broiler, steamed with 100g astragalus, and eat chicken with soup.
5. 1 blue-headed drake, cooked with 1 0,000 grams of wax gourd.
6, 2 pork loins, Eucommia ulmoides 10 grams, 50 grams of walnuts, cooked together.
7, carp 1 weight 250 grams, 500 grams of melon, boiled, eat fish, eat melon and drink soup.
8, 500 grams of melon, 30 grams of red beans, add appropriate amount of water, add a little salt, eat melon and drink soup.
9, corn silk, winter melon skin, red beans, the right amount, decoction on behalf of tea, even until the edema disappears.