1, the cause of edema
(1) disease edema
(1) Cardiogenic edema, patients with various heart diseases, beware of insufficient blood supply and systemic circulation disorder, which will reduce the venous return blood volume of lower limbs and cause edema;
(2) Liver edema. After cirrhosis of various hepatitis, due to the decrease of albumin synthesis in liver, hypoproteinemia and decrease of plasma osmotic pressure, edema of factory limbs can be caused;
③ In patients with renal edema, acute and chronic nephritis or nephrotic syndrome, the glomerular filtration function is reduced, which leads to water and sodium retention in the body, in addition to a large amount of proteinuria, which leads to hypoproteinemia, thus causing edema;
④ Hypothyroidism edema. When hypothyroidism occurs, mucopolysaccharide deposits in patients' dermis, and a large amount of hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate and water accumulate between cells, which can cause edema of lower limbs;
⑤ Patients with pathological edema of deep veins of lower limbs, deep phlebitis of lower limbs or venous valve insufficiency of lower limbs may have edema of lower limbs due to obstruction of venous return.
(2) Physiological edema
Performance 1: Some middle-aged women, after getting up in the morning, suddenly find that their tires are getting fat, their eyes are slightly swollen, their faces are slightly swollen, and the skin of their lower limbs is sunken or tight. As the day goes by, it can be gradually reduced and subsided.
Performance 2: Some people with heavy eating habits often have edema of lower limbs.
Performance 3: 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 little rest or change your posture for a while, the edema can be relieved and disappeared by yourself.
Performance 4: Some healthy women have eye danger, slight edema on the back of hand, instep or even under double glue one week or half before menstruation, or accompanied by nervous system symptoms such as breast swelling pain, heavy pelvic cavity, irritability, insomnia, fatigue and headache.
Performance 5: After taking some drugs, edema appears in hands and feet, and the edema will gradually subside after stopping taking drugs.
Step 2 eliminate edema
Take a hot bath.
First of all, this is the easiest thing for everyone to do, that is, choose a comfortable hot bath after work. Don't soak for too long, about 20 minutes, the effect is very good. Taking a hot bath helps to promote vasodilation and accelerate blood circulation in the body, which is very beneficial to the health of various organs, helps people to relieve physical stress and is also good for sleep. If sedentary people have edema, they can get up and walk properly, which not only helps to relieve stress, but also helps to relieve edema.
(2) Soak your feet with ginger
Soaking feet is also very useful. As the market says, there is no need to soak your feet with drugs. Adding ginger is enough to solve your problem. Because ginger has a good effect of promoting blood circulation, you can use it to do some foot massage when soaking your feet. In this way, as long as you keep soaking your feet for 15 minutes every day, you can see the effect.
(3) Pay attention to diet
The food must be light every day, and the amount of salt should be controlled at about 3-5 grams per day.
Taboo oil, marine fish, shrimp, crab, etc. A large number of spicy foods such as onions, leeks, ginger and garlic should be avoided in vegetables, as should pumpkins, sherry red and cool fruits. Eat more foods that promote diuresis and detumescence, such as bananas, potatoes, carrots, avocados and oranges. Red bean coix seed is a top-grade drainage product, which can be cooked into porridge with red bean, coix seed, black rice, white kidney bean, latosolic red rice, millet and red dates to improve edema.
(4) Do more exercise
Exercise can widen blood vessels, so that water entering the kidneys can be better discharged. If you want to eliminate edema through exercise, it is recommended to start with aerobic exercise with the most sweating, and walk or jog for half an hour every two days to widen blood vessels and discharge water.
White-collar workers spend more time in the office and less time doing sports on weekdays. It is recommended to do exercise before going to bed to help reduce swelling. The specific method is: lie flat on the bed, stick your legs on the wall, and let your legs and body form make a 90-degree angle for 20-30 minutes, which is helpful to relieve edema caused by poor blood circulation in the lower body and is very effective for stovepipe.
(5) Massage therapy
Flapping massage: the fingers are close together in a hollow state, and the hands are flapped rhythmically from the ankle, first slapping one leg and then changing the other leg.
Scraping massage: After taking a bath, apply slimming essential oil on the calf, and scrape the leg vigorously with a scraping board (or the back of a wooden comb, a smooth spoon, etc.). ), scraping all the way up from the ankle, scraping 100 times on each leg can promote blood circulation and make the legs stronger.
Lift massage: sit on the ground, lift your right leg to a right angle, beat your leg with your fist, and repeat the same action with your left leg after 5 minutes. If there is enough time, it is better to make this after soaking in bath salt.
(6) the right medicine
If it is edema caused by pathological diseases, it is necessary to treat the cause. Drugs can be used to treat cardiogenic, hepatogenic and nephrogenic edema. You need a doctor to diagnose your condition and use medicine reasonably.
3. Preventive measures
The above is the introduction of how to eliminate edema. There are many reasons for people's edema in life. If you want to get better treatment, you need to find the cause on the basis of doctor's diagnosis and carry out reasonable treatment. Everyone should pay attention when drugs are needed to treat edema. Never take drugs privately, but you must follow the doctor's advice.
4. What should I eat for edema?
1, mung bean
Chinese medicine believes that mung beans are sweet and cold, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst, diuresis and detumescence. Mung bean itself contains lysine, which is a traditional Chinese medicine that can enhance the appetite and digestive ability of human body.
Recommended usage: Wash and soak a proper amount of mung beans for several hours, then put them in a pot and add water until they are crisp and rotten.
2. adzuki bean
Red beans are rich in vitamin B 1, protein and various minerals, which are helpful to promote intestinal peristalsis, diuresis and detumescence.
Recommended usage: Take red beans, wash them, put them in a pot with Coicis Semen, add enough water to boil, then turn off the fire and stew for 1 hour, then stew for 1 hour, and then filter the soup to drink.
3, corn silk
Corn silk is sweet and flat, and has good effects of clearing heat, diuresis and eliminating edema.
Recommended usage: Take 50g of corn stigma and decoct it in water for 20min once a day.
4.watermelon
Watermelon has a good effect of removing annoyance and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Citrulline and arginine contained in melon meat can effectively induce diuresis and eliminate edema.
Recommended usage: Take 200 grams of watermelon juice and 200 grams of watermelon peel, add appropriate amount of water together, and fry for about 15 minutes twice a day.
5. Coix seed
Coix seed is sweet and slightly cold, and has good effects of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness. It is a commonly used medicine for diuresis and dampness.
Recommended usage: grind coix seed into coarse powder and cook it with japonica rice to make porridge.
6.potatoes
Potatoes are rich in inorganic salts, in which potassium can help the body to discharge sodium remaining in the body due to excessive salt, and can also promote the body to discharge excess water and effectively eliminate edema.
Recommended usage: Choose smaller potatoes, wash them, put them in boiling water, and then stew them on low heat 10~20 minutes to make them cooked thoroughly. In general, chopsticks can be easily inserted into potatoes for cooking. Then take out the potatoes and peel them when the temperature is right.
7.celery
The diuretic component contained in celery can help eliminate excess water in the body and effectively reduce swelling. And eating celery can also help promote digestion and accelerate the excretion of toxins in the body.
Recommended usage: wash celery and cut into inch-long segments; Dried tofu is shredded; Put the oil in the pot, and when the oil is warm, pour in the dried bean curd and stir-fry it to give a fragrance; Add celery, stir fry, add salt and sugar, and season with chicken essence.
8.wax gourd
The sodium content of wax gourd is extremely low, which has the function of diuresis and dampness elimination. In addition, the potassium contained in it can also help lower blood pressure and eliminate edema.
Recommended usage: Peel the wax gourd, remove the pulp, wash and slice it, then put a part of the prepared minced ginger and onion into the oil pan, add the wax gourd and stir-fry until the wax gourd becomes soft, then add water and the remaining minced ginger and onion and stir-fry for 2 minutes.
9.cauliflower
Cauliflower is rich in vitamins, which helps to relieve edema and prevent constipation.
Recommended usage: Wash a cauliflower or half a cauliflower and cut it into pieces, blanch it with boiling water, and then season it with appropriate amount of salt. Eat before dinner every time.