If you are having leg cramps

This unbearable sharp pain in the calves that occurs suddenly, many familiar. No need to worry about especially if the leg cramps are sporadic. Many people suffer spontaneous, frequent, or nocturnal leg cramps. What is the cause of suffering, how to deal with them, and can warn them, tell Passion.ru.
What causes cramps in the legs
Seizures most often plague older people and middle age. The most important causes of seizures are inflammatory processes, hidden injuries, damage to the thyroid gland, diabetes, neurological disease. If you suspect that these diseases need to be examined by various doctors: phlebologist, a neurologist and an endocrinologist. As a result of treatment of the underlying disease, as a rule, cramps pass.
The emergence of nocturnal seizures provoke:
• varicose veins,
• flat,
• stress,
• excessive muscle tension,
• hypothermia in the cold or ice water.
It is often the appearance of night cramps is caused by deficiency of magnesium in the body, which is involved in transmitting nerve impulses muscle cells, as well as calcium and vitamin D. After all, there are many factors that contribute to the loss of the body.
The reasons for the lack of minerals in the body
A. Acceptance of a number of drugs that impede absorption and assimilation of magnesium. For example, such as Maalox antacid or Almagel widely used to treat heartburn, slow down the absorption of trace elements and vitamins. Aminophylline and insulin contribute to the removal of the cells of this mineral.
Two. Pregnancy. The mother of magnesium and calcium is required twice the norm.
Three. Stress can lead to loss of calcium, so necessary for the functioning of the nervous system and muscle relaxation.
4. Prevent the absorption of calcium diet with high protein content.
Five. Increased sweating. The human body loses through sweat a lot of magnesium, so most often muscle cramps occur in the summer.
First aid
If at night you have a cramp begins, you need to get into bed, pulled down his legs and carefully stand on the cool floor, but not on the mat. The position of your body should remain as straight, feet should be together. A few minutes later the blood circulation in the legs is restored, and along with it - and normal muscle tone.
The second way: take a deep breath, grab hold of the toes, which reduced spasm, and with force through the pain, pull them up and toward you, stretching your muscle spasm. Do both rocking motion of the leg. When the weakened muscle spasm, muscle massage summarized.
With a strong spasm several times pinch nerve. After gently massage the foot and calf and foot patting rubbing movement in the direction of the heel from the toe and heel to knee on. After that, lie down, placing a rolled blanket under your feet. This posture allows the outflow of blood and prevents repeated seizures.
Can help and warming ointment, applied to the leg muscles. You can use vodka or apple cider vinegar.

If repeated muscle spasms, make moist warm compresses. The heat reduces the sensitivity of the nervous and muscle relaxant.

Signs of aging

The human body, like an obedient and sensitive tool generates signals that started the process of aging. Experts say that they need time to catch. Sometimes this process is started too early, and the reasons are many: the disease, exhaustion, genes, sadness and stress, unfavorable environment, the installation of our consciousness and life. But if you provide your body with adequate protection, then we can look much younger than their own chronological age.
Quiz: What is your biological age?
Signs of aging are reflected not only on the face - the main ones are deeply hidden. To determine whether you have signs of aging, we propose to test yourself with the test, which uses eastern doctors for more than one millennium. Its accuracy is not in doubt, proof of that - thousands of generations.
A. Do you get tired quickly, there is often a desire to relax?
Two. Are you worried about right after waking up aching pain and stiffness in the spine?
Three. Do you feel sharp pains in the joints, especially knees?
4. How often do you have to get up to urinate at night (in this case the urine is transparent)?
Five. Are you tormented by insomnia, dream a nightmare, which is in danger of your life?
6. How often do you feel chilly, freezing limbs?
7. Notice a weakening of the sexual function?
Eight. For men: how often do arise premature ejaculation? For women: if a failure occurs in the menstrual cycle?
9. You are constantly experiencing headaches, dizziness?
10. Have you increased sweating?
11. There is a fatigue the eye, reduced vision, watery eyes?
12. Is there a feeling in my chest stamping, there is shallow breathing, often have a cold?
13. There is a shym yshax, there is hearing loss?
14. Do you have these symptoms: dry hair or increased hair loss, graying hair?
15. Feel the bitterness in the mouth, there is redness of the tongue?
16. Do pain in the solar plexus?
17. Do you often feel nervous, jumps a blood pressure?
18. Do you often feel causeless anxiety, the fear that makes you tremble and look around?
19. There is a distraction, forgetfulness?
20. Do you have observed a marked loss of weight (unless you are dieting), there are unexpected for a wrinkle on your face?
Test results:
Each answer is "yes" to this one point, confirming the early withering of the body.
If you answered yes to only the first 5-7 issues, it can not talk about the aging of the organism, and the weakening of kidney function.
If you answered yes to all 20 questions - the biological clock is equal to your age 70-80 years.
What to do if you find yourself the signs of aging?
However, if you find yourself the signs of aging - that is no reason to despair. Believe me, you are able to eliminate some undesirable manifestations of the body and look younger.
So, how to keep a youth:
A. Drink green tea
Green tea is high in antioxidants which neutralize free radicals in the body and slow the aging process.
Two. Eat dark chocolate
Leading dermatologists from Europe in the course of the study found that a couple of slices of chocolate consumed daily - the perfect remedy for wrinkles, besides reducing the risk of skin cancer. The reason is in substances, flavonoids contained in cocoa beans. But it's worth noting that it is useful to dark chocolate containing 70% cocoa.
By the way, Italian scientists have previously determined that two or three cloves a day of dark chocolate help to reduce inflammation in diseases of the circulatory system. But their counterparts from Britain have shown that a daily intake of chocolate helps overcome chronic fatigue and improves memory.
Three. Make fruit masks

How to assure the beauticians, the best remedy for wrinkles - the mask of the fruit. Prepare your own masks from strawberries, papaya, apples, grapefruit, etc.
4. Work out
Experts proved that helps slow the aging muscle tone. To keep in shape, rather half-hour of daily physical activity.
Five. Laugh
Laughter helps reduce blood levels of cortisol - a stress hormone, and its elevated level leads to the appearance of wrinkles.
6. Regularly make love
Regular sex increases blood levels of serotonin - the hormone of joy and slows the aging process.
7. Be careful with medications
Taking medicines, be sure to pay attention to whether they are compatible with other drugs, food and herbal medicine resources.
Eight. Tune in to the youth
And, perhaps most importantly - the inner spirit. Change your outlook on life for the better. Optimism, positive outlook on things, the habit of seeing all good, love of family and friendships will help you look younger!