Spasms of muscles of legs are symptoms very widespread, they can testify to a number of violations in work of functional systems of an organism and a lack of important substances and elements.
Causes of spasms of gastrocnemius muscles at night
Usually cramps legs a spasm at night when legs are relaxed and are in natural situation. To answer a question why cramps a spasm gastrocnemius muscles at night, it is necessary to analyze a way of life, a condition of vessels and mineral balance in a human body.
Such factors are the most common causes of night spasms:
- Unbalanced food and lack of minerals of blood. During sleep at the person the movement of blood in extremities and the shortage of such elements slows down as calcium, magnesium and potassium can cause spasms of muscles.
- Intake of medicines. At the people taking medicine for pressure and diuretics, spasms in gastrocnemius muscles can be side effect of their influence at night.
- Regular overstrain of muscles of legs and dehydration of an organism – two factors which are often leading to muscular spasms. Such state is peculiar to people after big physical activities and active power trainings.
- Liver diseases, some types of nervous breakdowns, pathologies of a thyroid gland can also become the cause of night spasms of legs.
- Diseases of peripheral vessels – narrowing of arteries of a shin, a varicosity, thromboses. Owing to narrowing and difficulty of a channel of blood on vessels that in turn leads to a lack of minerals.
- The deficiency of vitamin D which is tested by many during the winter period because of a lack of sunlight leads to bad digestion of calcium. And it causes night spasms of legs.
What to do if cramped a spasm a gastrocnemius muscle at night?
The spasm of a muscle can be removed by means of massage with use of the warming ointment. In certain cases such manipulation helps – to pull a leg sock on itself, and then to relax a muscle, if necessary to repeat several times. As a last resort, it is possible to use the known method – to prick a muscle in several places with a needle or other sharp object. After the spasm passed, it is necessary to lie down with raised upside down.
For prevention of muscular spasms it is necessary to use enough water, to practice moderate physical activities, to reconsider a food allowance. Very well for elimination of unpleasant symptoms to do contrast leg baths with the subsequent massage of gastrocnemius muscles in the evenings.
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