Swelling of the legs looks very unaesthetic, but more importantly, puffiness indicates abnormalities in the body related to kidney disease, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic abnormalities and orthopedic pathologies. Often, women provoke the appearance of edema by wearing uncomfortable shoes with high heels. Questions, how and what to remove edema on the feet, are relevant for many women.
How to remove leg swelling?
To remove swelling of the legs, it is possible, following the following recommendations:
- Choose shoes according to size, from natural materials. It is necessary to abandon shoes with high heels.
- Wear tights and stockings from compression jersey. You should not walk in stockings and golf with rubber bands that prevent normal blood supply to the legs.
- Reduce the amount of salt consumed and reduce the amount of liquid drunk in the afternoon.
- In a daily diet include honey, wheat bran, fruits and vegetables with a high content of potassium (figs, apricots, dried apricots, melon, watermelon, bananas, salad).
- With fatigue, place your feet on the rollers for better outflow of blood from the extremities. With sedentary work from time to time, get up and walk for a few minutes.
What to take off the swelling of the legs?
Elimination of edema of the legs is facilitated by pharmaceuticals, massage, special exercises for the feet, traditional medicine.
Medical preparations
Use of medicines is necessary in accordance with the nature of the health disorder that causes swelling. With edema of the feet associated with kidney and heart diseases, diuretic preparations are prescribed for the doctor's prescription. To remove swelling from the legs with varicose veins, you can regularly use ointments and gels with venotonic and blood-thinning components:
- Heparin ointment;
- Troxevasin;
- Lyton-gel;
- Asklezan®;
- Venozol and others.
When buying foot creams should be preferred based on the extract of leeches or horse chestnut.
Folk remedies
In the absence of serious pathologies in health, swelling of the legs can be done with folk remedies. The most common way - a bath with warm or cool water. Baths with sea salt and a few drops of peppermint oil drive away edema and refresh feet. Solve the problem with compresses with a slurry of raw potatoes. It is useful to keep your feet in cotton or linen bags with fresh birch leaves. On the state of the legs, the best way is to wipe pieces of ice from the infusion of chamomile, sage, yarrow, horsetail.
The herb spores perfectly cleans the kidneys, removes excess fluid from the body, thereby reducing the puffiness of the limbs. In order to prepare a healing drink, half a tablespoon of sponges are brewed with a liter of boiling water and during the day, the infusion is drunk instead of water. From the edema helps water tincture of corn stigmas and sticks. Due to the high content of potassium, the body maintains the optimal balance of microelements, cleanses the liver and kidneys.
How to quickly remove leg swelling?
Quickly remove the swelling and reduce discomfort in the leg area allows rinsing the feet with a contrast shower. For the proper effect, the temperature difference between cool and warm water should be at least 15 - 20 degrees. Massage of tired legs with a rough towel or moderately stiff brush helps in 7 - 10 minutes to put them in order. After massage, it is desirable to rub the skin with vegetable oil (preferably olive oil) with the addition of essential oil or a foot care cream.