Depending on the cause, the cramps can be accidental - spasms and episodic. In some patients, they become worse or appear with an external stimulus (with a needle stabbing the needle, a sudden loud sound), with alcohol abuse. The spasm can cover a group of muscles or be in one muscle.
Sudden convulsive muscle tension, the so-called tonic cramp, can usually last a minute and is accompanied by sharp pain. This cramp occurs in the gastrocnemius muscle during prolonged walking, while swimming in a healthy person.
If the cramp has arisen during swimming, you need to stop moving with your legs and try to unbend your feet with a healthy foot. Spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the glottis (spasm) can be caused by irritating odors, gases, and can often lead to the cessation of breathing. Spasm of muscles of arterial vessels can cause malnutrition and change the functions of these organs. Usually convulsions are a symptom of the disease, so to determine the cause of seizures, you need to see a doctor, to establish appropriate treatment.
If convulsions are accompanied by loss of consciousness, this is a symptom of epilepsy. When there is a spasm, you need to call a doctor urgently. And before his arrival, you need to create a calm environment. The patient must lie so that he can relax the muscles. If breathing is impaired, provide the patient with airflow, or give oxygen from the oxygen pillow. In hot weather, to prevent dehydration, you must drink cold water with the addition of table salt per 1 liter of water 1 teaspoon of salt.
Folk remedies cure cramps
- Adonis is spring. Take 1 or 2 teaspoons of dry milled grass Adonis spring on a glass of boiling water. We accept: adults 1 tablespoon three times a day. For children 2 years of age for 5 or 6 drops, for children 6 years for 15 drops, for children 12 years, 2 teaspoons 5 or 6 times a day.
- Buds of birch. Take 2 teaspoons of birch buds, brew them, like tea in a glass of boiling water. Infusion of three drinks in two.
- Carnation. We take a carnation not more than 620 mg with sugar.
- Mustard oil. With the reduction of the muscles of the legs and hands with a spasm, we rub the sore spots with mustard oil.
- Goatee's goatee. Broth of gooseberry goose is used for cramps of a different nature, even with tetanus. Applies the decoction as a preventive remedy, because it acts slowly.
- Mack. The petals of the poppy should be carefully dried, pounded into powder and cooked with a decoction of honey and milk. You can use the poppy petals in the form of a tincture on vodka.
- Honey. We take for each meal 2 teaspoons of honey. Usually the course of treatment lasts for 7 days.
- Artemisia vulgaris. Take 30 grams of wormwood sage wormwood roots can be on a half liter of beer, you can on the water. We boil for 5 minutes. We take three times a day for 1 tablespoon.
- Wormwood. We mix 4 parts of olive oil and 1 part of pounded wormwood seeds. We insist for 8 hours. Drip on sugar by 1 or 2 drops and take.
- Pharmaceutical camomile. Take 4 tablespoons of dried flowers of chamomile pharmacy, pour 1 cup of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, drain. We take after eating 1/3 cup three times a day.
- Camomile oil. As an external agent we use chamomile oil.
- Collection (mint, cumin, fennel, anise). We mix 2 parts of peppermint leaves, 1 part of cumin fruit, 1 part of fennel fruit, 1 part of anise fruit, mix and take 2 teaspoons of mixture. Fill with a liter of boiling water. We insist 30 minutes, we will filter. We take small sips during the day.
- The surgust. With a spasm in your hand, you need to take a wax stick in this hand. Some will help if you take a piece of iron, but not cast iron or steel.
- A pin prick. Get rid of the cramp can be, if you take and prick a muscle-clamped pin or something sharp.
- Garlic (oil infusion) . We take a head of garlic of medium size, rastolchhem in gruel and put it in a glass jar and fill it with a glass of unrefined sunflower oil. We'll put it in a cold place for a day. Take 1 teaspoon of garlic oil in a mixture with 1 teaspoon of fresh lemon juice 30 minutes before meals three times a day. The course of treatment is from 1 to 3 months, then we will take a break for 1 month and repeat the course of treatment.
- Tincture of garlic. Fill the bottle 1/3 of the finely chopped garlic, pour vodka or 60% alcohol. We insist 64 days in a dark place, every day we shake it. We take 5 drops in 1 teaspoon of cold water, before meals three times a day.
Egg white with saffron. Mix 3 egg whites with a little saffron. Let's rub this medicine, tied to the forehead or like an ointment on a towel.
Lemon. In the morning and evening, with the fresh lemon juice, we will lubricate the soles of the feet. Do not wipe your feet, put on socks and shoes, then when the juice dries. The course of treatment is not more than 2 weeks. Apply with leg cramps.
Cork from wine. Corks from wine bottles thread on the thread. We put on such a necklace for caviar or a muscle stitched with cramps. After a while, the cramp passes. Sometimes it is enough to rub the combined place and then the cramps will stop.
Mustard oil. When reducing the cramps of legs or hands, rub the sore spots with mustard oil.
With muscular spasms, polyarthritis, we take 2 parts of fresh juice from celandine and 4 parts of petroleum jelly, or take Vaseline and powder from celandine grass, in proportion 1 to 1.
Cramps in the legs - prescription for salt treatment
Seizures in the legs are due to loss of salt. In ½ cup of water, we dissolve half a teaspoon of salt, we need a drink and then the cramps will pass.
When leg cramps you need to eat baked potatoes. In baked potatoes contain a lot of calcium, while it retains vitamins.
With the help of folk remedies for the treatment of leg cramps, one can get rid of cramps in the legs. Naturally, you need to consult a doctor about seizures, and then take appropriate treatment