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• Cramps in the leg.

DEFINITION

The legs pain is a frequent problem of health. It is a symptom and common ailment and that can owe to multiple pictures from muscular and vascular even for medicines that take for different illnesses.

CAUSES

The cramps usually owe to muscular problems and in this case it can be for:

• Dehydration or loss of salt
• The capture of diuretics that can produce the dehydration or loss of ions / salt.
• The capture of estatinas to lower the cholesterol
• Tear or stretching (muscular surcharge) for excessive exercise or an inadequate stretching

Other causes of pains can be:

• Tendinitis
• Fissure in the bone, for muscular tears.
• The inflammation of the joints of the leg for arthritis or drop
• Ateroesclerosis that produces the obstruction of the blood flow and is evident to the effort (intermittent submission)
• Tromboflebitis, which is the obstruction of the arteries of the legs well for an infectious inflammation or for blood clots.
• The infection of the bone (osteomielitis)
• The infection of the skin or subcutaneous textile (cellulitis).
• Injuries in the nerves for the diabetes or alcoholism.
• Varicose veins
• Sciatica

Other less common causes can be:

• Medicines like alopurinol and corticosteroides
• Benign tumors of the femur or the shinbone (osteoma osteoide)
• Malignant bony tumors (osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma).
• In the children the Legg-Calve-Perthes illness or necrosis aseptic of the head of the femur.

TREATMENT

There are a few general advices but it is necessary to look for the cause to put the suitable treatment. Then the first thing is to do a good diagnosis.

The general measurements can be:

• To rest the legs and to become seated to knocked down with the high legs
• To apply local cold several times a day
• To give massages in the area
• It is possible to take an antinflamatorio like ibuprofeno or an analgesic as Paracetamol.
• If there are varicose veins to use flexible compressive veins.
• To eliminate the consumption of alcohol and tobacco.

TO SEE ALSO

• Illness of Legg-Calve-Perthes
• Sciatica
• Osteomielitis
• Tendinitis
• Varicose veins

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