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What causes swelling in the legs? (image 1)

What causes swelling in the legs?

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.

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.”