What is missing from cramps? Mastering the tricks can control cramps

Generally speaking, in the cold winter, people will unconsciously wake up due to pain caused by cramps when they sleep at night. For people who often suffer from cramps, they are also very concerned about what causes the cramps. The following article will analyze this for you.

What is missing from cramps?

Many people around me think that cramps indicate calcium deficiency. To understand this problem, we first need to understand what cramps are. The scientific name for cramps is "muscle spasm". It means that when your nerves and muscles are abnormally excited, they will cause involuntary and unwarned excessive contraction of the muscles. During an attack, the muscles will obviously contract like compression, which is extremely painful and can last for several seconds or tens of seconds, and then gradually ease, but local pain may remain.

Calcium ions play an important role in muscle contraction. As the calcium absorption capacity of the elderly is weakened and calcium loss is obvious, the calcium in the bodies of children and pregnant women is consumed too much. When the calcium ion concentration in the blood is too low, the muscles are easily excited and spasm.

Five tips to effectively control cramps:

1. Generally, cramps are not harmful and can be relieved immediately if treated in time. If they occur repeatedly, you need to see a doctor to rule out organic diseases of blood vessels and nerves to avoid delaying the condition. When cramps occur, just do the opposite, that is, bend the toes in the opposite direction of the force and persist for more than 1 to 2 minutes, and you will see results. When the muscles behind the calf cramp, you can sit or lean against the wall, bend the toes with both hands to make the toes curl up, then straighten the knee joint as much as possible, and use hot compresses or light massage to relax the tense muscles.

2. Drive away the cold and keep warm: especially when sleeping, soak your feet in hot water before going to bed, and massage your calf muscles every day to promote local blood circulation.

3. Proper exercise: Strengthen physical exercise and sports on a regular basis, pay attention to warm-up before activities, improve blood supply, and enhance muscle contraction ability;

4. Proper calcium supplementation: Eat more vitamin D, calcium tablets, and calcium-rich foods such as milk, shrimp, kelp, and tofu;

5. Improve blood supply: Improve arteriosclerosis, eliminate factors that cause the diameter of the blood vessels to decrease, lose weight, and promote a light diet, eat more foods rich in vitamin C (such as fresh vegetables, fruits) and plant protein (such as beans and their products). Take antiplatelet aggregation drugs, drugs that improve lipid metabolism, drugs that improve arterial wall structure, vitamin E and other drugs under the guidance of a doctor. At the same time, it is necessary to actively prevent and treat risk factors that may aggravate leg arteriosclerosis, such as hypertension, diabetes, etc.