What s wrong with waking up with leg cramps? What causes leg cramps while sleeping?

If you have leg cramps, you first need to check if your legs are cold when you sleep at night. If you don't cover the quilt at night, you are prone to leg cramps after getting cold, and you need to do local hot compresses and massages, which will generally improve quickly, and you must pay attention to keeping warm when you sleep. Leg cramps may also be caused by a lack of calcium.

Especially during puberty or pregnancy, the body is prone to relative calcium deficiency, so you need to pay attention to eating more calcium-rich foods in your usual diet, such as beans, milk, shrimp skin, etc.; You can also participate in more outdoor activities to increase your exposure to sunlight. If leg cramps occur, the possibility of a herniated disc in the lumbar area should also be ruled out, and a CT examination of the lower back should be done to confirm this condition. If there is a problem with a herniated lumbar disc, it is recommended to do physiotherapy and traction of the lower back.

Wake up cramps are mostly seen in calcium deficiency, mostly in adolescents and the elderly during the growth and development period, after calcium deficiency, it will lead to muscle spasms, contractions, thus causing muscle cramps, especially at night when sleeping cramps are particularly obvious. In addition, it is seen in heavy manual labor, after engaging in heavy physical labor during the day, it is easy to cause edema caused by excessive muscle stretching, and muscle cramps and cramps will occur when resting at night.

The main causes of leg and foot cramps are:

1) Poor local circulation, peripheral vascular lesions or varicose veins of the feet.

2) Sudden change in ambient temperature.

3) Emotional overtension.

4) Excessive loss of water and salt, resulting in an imbalance of electrolytes in the body.

5) Insufficient levels of minerals (such as magnesium and calcium) in the diet.

6) The incidence of cramps in certain chronic diseases and pregnant women will also increase.

7) Low thyroid, uremia or other physical diseases.

8) Motor neuron disease, spinal radiculopathy or peripheral neuropathy.

9) Certain drugs to lower blood pressure and blood lipids may also cause foot cramps.

10) Unknown reasons.

How to reduce the chances of leg and foot cramps:

1) Pay attention to calcium supplementation: In the stage of puberty, calcium will be relatively lacking, which is more likely to cause cramps.

2) If you are prone to cramps when sleeping at night, stretch on the cramp-prone area before going to bed.

3) Keep your calves warm when sleeping. You can wear more clothes to keep your hands and feet warm.

4) Excessive sagging of the foot plate (in the direction of the soles of the feet) may induce cramps in the lower legs. Avoid letting the foot plate hang too much when sleeping.

5) There have been reports in the literature that vitamin E can reduce the number of attacks, but it is not conclusive.

When the calf is cramping, you can straighten and rub the spasmodic calf muscles, and pull the foot plate that is cramping downward. And pay attention to the warmth of the calf muscles when the cramps are excessive. In folklore**, it is recommended to use your fingers to press the acupuncture points in the person, and you can also try it.

What to do if you have leg cramps when you sleep in the middle of the night?

The calf is too cold, and the blood and oxygen supply to the muscles and tendons is not enough, so the symptoms can be immediately improved by applying a hot compress for 1-2 hours. Keeping warm can prevent**.

Yes, especially when you grow your body during your teenage years. Cramps are a general manifestation of calcium deficiency.

Does this happen often, or does it happen occasionally?

If it often occurs, it is necessary to consider whether it is a calcium deficiency, eat more foods with high calcium content, such as tofu, etc., and you can also bask in the sun more.

Don't worry too much about the occasional appearance.

Massaging and relaxing the leg muscles is an effective way to avoid cramps.

When I was in middle school, too, either because I had to grow up or because I was calcium deficient.

No matter how old you are, in addition to being stressed, there is also a possibility of calcium deficiency.

Poor sleeping posture, such as lying on your back for a long time, pressing the quilt against the top of your feet, or lying on your stomach for a long time, so that the top of your feet against the bed, forces some muscles in the calf to be in an absolutely relaxed state for a long time, causing muscle "passive contractures".