After working all day, it is quite comfortable to go home to sleep, but many people will have leg cramps in the middle of the night, so the overall sleep quality will be greatly reduced. When it comes to cramps, the first thing we think of is calcium deficiency, but this is not the only cause of cramps. Let's take a look.
Cramp inducement 1: cold and cold
When the human body is cold, there will be an involuntary phenomenon: shivering, which is what we call shivering and trembling! This is the command of the brain to maintain the body temperature, which makes the muscles tremble.
In fact, shivering is also the contraction of muscles. Coupled with some other reasons, such as low blood calcium concentration, it is easy to have strong spasms. For example, when we first entered the swimming pool, we were particularly prone to cramps. So it's important to keep warm and warm up before exercise.
Cramp inducement 2: excessive fatigue
Over the years, the quality of life has become higher and higher, but for a considerable majority of people, the burden on them has become heavier, especially for the middle-aged and elderly, they have been in a state of weakness and fatigue for a long time, and they work too much every day, resulting in a large amount of metabolic waste.
If it is not relieved at night, it is easy to cause leg cramps. Generally, the sustainable time is 10 seconds or more, which affects our normal sleep.
Cramp inducement 3: poor blood flow
For patients with varicose veins or deep venous thrombosis in the legs, if they maintain a certain position for a long time during sleep, it will lead to poor blood flow in the human legs. When the blood stasis reaches a certain degree, it will cause spasm of human leg muscles, which is often called cramp.
Cramp inducement 4: wrong sleeping position
Many people don't pay attention to their sleeping position when they sleep, how comfortable they come, and even fall asleep with their mobile phone. However, a person's sleeping position is incorrect. Lie on his back for a long time, so that the quilt is pressed on his feet, or lie prone for a long time, so that the surface of his feet is against the bed. Some muscles of his lower leg are in a static state for a long time, which will also cause leg cramps, and will be accompanied by symptoms such as leg numbness and leg weakness.
In life, we will inevitably encounter cramps in the middle of the night. What should we do at this time?
1. Sit up immediately, straighten the leg with cramp, hold the soles of your feet with both hands, bend it back and break it, which can alleviate the cramp in a short time.
2. Getting out of bed and walking around, holding back the pain and pushing the soles of the cramped leg down on the ground is also one of the effective solutions.