"Elephant" in no case should not be left untreated, otherwise the edema can acquire significant dimensions, which will lead to tissue damage, impaired blood circulation and trophic processes.
Lymphostasis is characterized by a number of symptoms:
- In the early stages of the disease in the evening, there is swelling on the back of the foot, which disappears in the morning.
- With the development of the disease, the edema becomes more dense to the touch and does not pass by morning.
- Appear typical thick leathery folds on the places of edema, legs resemble elephants (elephantiasis).
- Inflammation, cracks, trophic spots appear on the skin of the legs.
When a patient has symptoms of "elephantiasis" - permanent swelling, you should consult a doctor.
In such cases, the circulatory system is usually examined: computer or magnetic resonance imaging, dopplerography of the vessels of the extremities, and a radioisotope study.
Traditional methods of treating the "elephantiasis" of the legs.
Classical treatment of "elephantiasis" can improve the outflow of lymph and relieve inflammation. The patient is usually advised to bandage the limbs with elastic bandages or use elastic stockings.
In advanced cases, when the legs are seriously deformed with edema, surgical intervention is used. However, medicine is not able to restore tissue trophism.
For the treatment of lymphostasis, a number of compression products are produced: a stocking and elastic golf of various sizes. Due to compression, strong swelling of the extremities is eliminated. Also puffiness is removed by such ointments as "Venoruton", "Troxevasin" and "Actovegin". For oral administration, "Glivenol", "Rutozid", "Glinkor Fort", "Detralex", "Venoplant", "Anvenol" can be prescribed.
The result of surgery is usually the removal of subcutaneous tissue and the reconstruction of the lymphatic system. After the operation, it is recommended to bandage the limbs for another six months.
Non-traditional methods in the treatment of lymphostasis.
- Honey and garlic.
Take a quarter kilogram of peeled garlic, grind in a blender, pour 350 grams of honey into the resulting gruel, mix. Insist in a closed glass jar for a week. Take for two months for one tablespoon, three times a day, one hour before meals.
- Bark bark, oak, horse chestnut, flowers of the immortelle, astragalus, Icelandic moss.
Prepare a mixture of 20 grams of birch bark, 20 grams of dried horse chestnut fruit, 20 grams of oak bark, 30 grams of immortelle flowers, 30 grams of astragalus and 50 grams of Icelandic moss. Keep the mixture in a glass jar. Take two tablespoons of the mixture, pour half a liter of boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. After that, the broth is wrapped and insisted before cooling. It is filtered and drunk half a cup four times a day.
- Hazel.
Shredded hazel leaves (about 30 grams) are brewed half a liter of boiling water, insisted in a thermos for two hours. Take should be half a cup, four times a day.
- Laundry soap.
A pack of woolen fabric is prepared, first soaked, and then rubbed with dark soap. Such a compress is fixed by a bandage on the affected limb.
- Chicory, ginger.
4-5 times a day you need to drink chicory, in which you can add a pinch of ginger.
- Melissa.
At night, you can put fresh leaves of lemon balm on your leg and fasten it with a bandage.
- Leaves of birch, lilac, walnut.
In summer and spring, fresh leaves of birch, lilac and walnut are suitable for night compresses.
- Clay.
A kilogram of clay is diluted with water until the consistency of the dough. A cake of such clay is fixed on the foot as a night compress. The procedure should be repeated every night.
- Cowberry leaves.
Brew tea from the leaves of cranberries: one tablespoon - a glass of boiling water. To insist an hour in a thermos and drink three times a day, adding honey.
- Cranberry, rose.
Excessive amounts of fluid can exacerbate edema. For drinking it is better to use cranberry juice or infusion from rose hips.
- Oil of milk thistle.
Legs should be rubbed twice a day with thistle oil. This will speed the healing of the wounds and eliminate inflammation.
Exercises to reduce leg swelling and improve fluid outflow.
It is best to perform exercises in the morning and in the evening - 2 times a day.
1. Lying on the couch or on the floor, raise your legs higher, lean on them, for example, on the wall and lie for 10-15 minutes, stroking your hips in the direction from the knee to the groin.
2. Massage movements "squeeze" stagnant fluid from swollen limbs - from the toes to the knees. After that, you can lie down for 10 minutes, lifting your legs.
3. Lie down, raise your legs, leaning against the wall. To wiggle your toes, compress, unclench. For example, squeeze and unclench 30 times. To do rotational movements in stops.
After completing the exercises, apply "Troxevasin" gel to your feet and bandage them with an elastic bandage from fingers to the knee joint.
Unconventional ways to get rid of lymphostasis perfectly complement the classical. Enjoy the gifts of nature!