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Common causes and how to prevent severe leg, calf muscle cramps
Filed Under (Natural Remedies) by yaoshen on 26-08-2008
“Muscle Cramps”
It is a fact that when you come across muscle cramps, you will start to look for solutions and remedies to ease your problems. Muscle cramps are sudden, involuntary contractions that can last for several minutes, most often occurring after exercise or at night. It is not uncommon to experience a leg, calf or abdominal muscle cramp.
Common causes of muscle cramps are:
- dehydration
- lack of minerals
- strain/overuse of a muscle
- not enough blood getting to your muscles
Too little potassium, calcium or magnesium in your diet can cause depletion/lack of these minerals in your body. Also, some diuretics prescribed for high blood pressure can cause potassium loss resulting in muscle cramps.
Not enough blood getting to muscles can be caused by arteriosclerosis in your extremities. This reduction in blood flow can produce cramp-like pain in your legs, calves and feet during exercise, which typically diminishes a couple of minutes after you stop.
Muscle cramps can also be caused by nerves that malfunction, and this malfunction is sometimes due to health problems, like a pinched nerve in your back or neck.
It is best to keep yourself warm by wearing trouser and socking to prevent further cramps during the night. Treatment to relieve the severe pain caused by cramps, try stretching or gently massaging the cramped muscle. Use and apply Analgesic Balm “Counterpain” to relieve the pain.
Remedies - The Power Oil that calms nocturnal leg cramps
Wheat germ oil, a high-concentrated source of Vitamin E, is able to help calm down the health-destroying problem of nocturnal leg cramps. In this condition, there are painful spasms and aches in your calf and thigh muscles that cause intense pain during the night, when you should be getting needed sleep. With the use of Vitamin E-rich wheat germ oil, you should be able to help ease spasms and do away with leg cramps.
Healing Power of Vitamin E. This nutrient tends to invigorate leg muscles to increase circulation, free muscles and joints from obstructions and thereby boost the flow of blood-carrying oxygen to the injured, pained areas. This process appears to help restore more youthful flexibility to the limbs and the body, too. Whether in the form of Vitamin E (from any health store, pharmacy or online store) or wheat germ oil, this power oil is able to promote swift, effective healing of leg pains.
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