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What causes swelling in the legs? (image 1)
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Cardiac and vascular surgery
specialist Assoc. Dr. Murat İkizler previously that make your life difficult in
the advanced stages of the daily leg swelling, leads to serious health
problems, he said.
İkizler, that involve the
whole body or just leg leg swelling that would be seen as a local problem due
to general conditions, he said. Assoc. Dr. Murat İkizler, “seen one of these
formats according to the duration and degree of systemic or local can be a sign
of some diseases. On the other hand, drug use, and leg swelling can lead to
side factors such as pregnancy,” he said.
Makes me think of a systemic
disease.
That appears swelling in
both legs in a symmetrical manner depending on the degree of hypothyroidism,
some metabolic diseases, kidney disease, edema such as heart failure disorders
that involve the whole body and in the body capable of representing, noting
that Assoc. Dr. İkizler, “in those cases, swelling, shortness of breath, rapid
heart rate, waist-can be accompanied by additional symptoms such as chest pain.
Due to the condition of
fatigue in people with chronic disease, loss of strength, easy fatigability,
lack of motivation on exercise performance and a decrease in the resistance of
the body can be seen. Low grade rarely symmetrical symmetrical swelling in the
legs can occur due to lymph edema,” he said.
Asymmetric swelling is there a risk of clotting
Swelling occurs in one leg
only, usually observed in diseases of the lymphatic channels or blood vessels
of the leg, indicating that the Assoc. Dr. İkizler, “located in the leg veins
tasked with bringing contaminated blood to the heart, working against gravity
structures. This excess weight in the veins, work standing up, so the
structural distortions that occur due to family reasons or to give birth, the
blood pooling in the legs causes the veins. This condition is known as venous
insufficiency, which the disease and the person's degree of physical-vital,
depending on the characteristics, causes swelling in the legs.
For similar reasons, to form
a clot vein blood clots in the veins (venous thrombosis) in the leg is among
the common causes of sudden swelling. Necessarily require treatment, and
sometimes life-threatening within hours of venous clots, leg swelling, pain,
heat, redness or darkening in color is accompanied by symptoms such as leg.
There are lymphatic channels and spread among the circulating of the fluid in
the body tissues. The microscopic tubules in the form of a network of channels
that surrounds the entire body in the groin, in the armpit lymph node carries
fluids upwards against the force of gravity on the body by lymphatic stations.
Particularly overweight,
less moving, less people who work standing or blockage of the lymph channels as
a result of this work the first swelling of legs is seen. Sometimes
advanced-grade persistent edema which leads to this disease similar to
elephantiasis, are among the common causes of leg swelling,” he said.
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| What causes swelling in the legs? (image 2) |
Pregnancy, causing the leg to swell also
Used to treat different
ailments, high blood pressure, hormones, diabetes drugs, steroids and some
antidepressants also can cause swelling in the legs with. However, edema in the
legs occur during pregnancy due to hormonal effects and swelling can occur.
Assoc. Dr. İkizler leg swelling that occurs after the sixth month should be
ignored by emphasizing that, “the effect of a growing volume and weight of the and birth the growing baby in the mother's
pelvis takes up space. This situation is putting pressure on the main veins and
the lymph channels of the Mother.
Stop and loaded the baby in
the womb is more a way asymmetric that can cause leg to swell growing and
reaching serious proportions. More importantly, the blood clots in the veins
due to slowed blood flow in which compression can occur. For this reason,
especially in unilateral or bilateral leg swelling that begins after the sixth
month of pregnancy you need to refer to a specialist.”
How is it treated?
Giving information relevant
to the treatment method Assoc. Dr. İkizler went on to say:
“The first leg to swell,
which causes the underlying disease being treated. Systemic diseases must be
examined by the related department to begin the necessary treatment quickly and
permanent in the name of prevention of complications is of great importance.
Vein-related diseases in the treatment, if necessary, The work promotes venous
blood-thinning medicines can be helpful. But such drugs needs to be taken with
the advice of a doctor.”
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