What causes calf swelling in men?

If you have swollen calves, don't ignore it, because it may indicate that there are some problems in your body. Especially for men, you need to understand what factors will cause stress to cause swollen calves, so that you can scientifically and effectively prevent and correctly alleviate this situation. The following is an introduction to some reasons for swollen calves in men.

There are many causes of leg swelling.

1. Caused by renal insufficiency or disease, such as kidney deficiency or edema caused by problems with the urinary system.

2. Cardiogenic edema When right heart failure occurs in various heart diseases, venous blood cannot flow smoothly back to the left ventricle, causing the intravenous pressure to increase and body fluid to leak into the tissue space, causing edema, which first appears in the ankles and eventually spreads throughout the body.

3. Malnutrition edema When there is nutritional disorder, plasma albumin decreases and edema occurs, which first appears in the lower limbs and gradually spreads upward and spreads throughout the body. Before the edema, there is malnutrition, malabsorption or chronic wasting disease.

4. Local lower limb edema is mostly caused by obstruction of the lower limb veins and lymphatic vessels, resulting in body fluids entering the tissue spaces. For example, lower limb thrombotic phlebitis, lymphangitis, filariasis, pelvic or lower limb tumors compress the veins. Swelling often occurs in one lower limb and generally does not spread throughout the body.

5 Edema caused by fatigue, etc.

After reading the above-mentioned causes of calf swelling, you should have a scientific understanding of this. Through these introductions, we will find that calf swelling may be caused by renal insufficiency, kidney deficiency and some urinary system problems. In addition, malnutrition in daily life can also cause this situation.