Causes of leg cramps

Leg cramps are something that many people have experienced. It is actually very uncomfortable when your legs cramp, especially when you are sleeping soundly at night. Sudden leg cramps will make a person lose all sleepiness. If you suddenly find yourself with leg cramps during normal activities, it will actually have a great impact on your life. Therefore, people with leg cramps must seek timely treatment.

In order to treat leg cramps, you actually have to find out what causes the leg cramps. Only in this way can you treat it accordingly and keep yourself away from the problem of leg cramps. So what are the causes of leg cramps?

Here are the four main factors that can cause leg cramps.

1. Bad sleeping posture, such as lying on your back for a long time with the quilt pressing on your feet, or lying on your stomach for a long time with your feet against the bed, forcing certain calf muscles to be in an absolutely relaxed state for a long time, causing "passive contracture" of the muscles. What should you do when your calf cramps occur? Taking the following different countermeasures according to different causes can quickly relieve cramps and relieve pain.

2. The decline of estrogen and osteoporosis in elderly women will cause low blood calcium levels, increased muscle irritability and frequent cramps.

3. Fatigue, lack of sleep, rest or excessive rest can lead to accumulation of local acidic metabolic products and cause muscle spasms. Walking or exercising for too long, which causes excessive fatigue in the lower limbs, or lack of rest and sleep, can cause lactic acid accumulation. Sleeping and resting too much or too long can slow down blood circulation and cause carbon dioxide accumulation.

4. Cold stimulation from the external environment, such as low room temperature at night in winter, using a quilt that is too thin during sleep, or exposing legs and feet outside the quilt.

The above are some common causes of leg cramps. Of course, people say that the legs get better first as people get older, so you must take good care of your feet in daily life. When you find leg cramps, you must seek timely treatment to reduce the pain.