Adjusting living habits, keeping enough rest, keeping warm and fitting clothes, wearing more elastic pants/socks, raising your legs and sleeping on your left side are all good habits. In addition, these two small exercises also help to reduce edema:
1, kneel on the ground or sit in a chair, hold your left foot with your hands and touch the instep with your thumbs. Put your two thumbs together and massage down along the seam between your toes. Massage for 2 ~ 3 minutes and then change the other foot.
2. Sit cross-legged on the ground or in a chair, lift your left foot, and insert all four fingers (except thumb) of your right hand into the toe seam from the sole of your left foot to stimulate the toe seam. Do 1 min or so, and change the other foot.
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Diet adjustment: high protein and low salt diet
1. Adjusting diet also helps to improve edema.
Eat high-quality protein every day, such as poultry, livestock, meat, fish, seafood, shellfish, eggs, milk and dairy products, and bean products (such as soybean milk, tofu, dried tofu, vegetarian chicken, tofu and dried silk). These foods are cooked with fresh materials and strong vegetables, such as onions, tomatoes, garlic, fennel, celery, parsley, mushrooms, medlar, red dates, black dates, lemons, vinegar, laurel leaves and so on. , can reduce the use of salt.
2. Eat enough fruits and vegetables.
Vegetables and fruits contain a variety of vitamins and trace elements necessary for the human body, which can improve the body's resistance, strengthen metabolism, and also have the functions of detoxification and diuresis. Expectant mothers should not forget to eat vegetables and fruits every day.
3, eat less or not eat food that is not easy to digest and flatulence.
Such as fried glutinous rice cakes, sweet potatoes, onions, potatoes and so on. , so as not to cause abdominal distension, poor blood return and increased edema. Expectant mothers with edema should try to avoid it.