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Cramp

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Introduction

Introduction Cramps are muscle spasms. Most of the leg cramps are caused by calcium deficiency, cold, and local nerve pressure. Usually you can make appropriate amount of calcium, more sun, pay attention to local warmth, but also pay attention to changes in posture, such as sitting posture, avoid nerve pressure, you can also do local muscle heat, massage, strengthen local blood circulation, if No improvement, you should go to the hospital for treatment.

Cause

Cause

High fever, epilepsy, tetanus, rabies, calcium deficiency, etc. can cause cramps, which are systemic, and localized such as gastrocnemius (commonly known as calf), often due to rapid exercise or work fatigue or severe twisting of the ankle Caused, often appearing while lying down or sleeping. Common causes of leg cramps are poor sleep postures, such as prolonged supine, so that the quilt is pressed against the foot, or prone for a long time, so that the foot surface is on the bed, forcing some muscles of the calf to be absolutely relaxed for a long time, causing the muscle to be "passive" Curled up." Fatigue, sleep, lack of rest, or excessive rest can lead to accumulation of local acidic metabolites, which can cause muscle spasms. If you walk or exercise for too long, so that the lower limbs are over-tired or lack of rest and sleep, lactic acid can accumulate; sleep rest is too long, blood circulation slows down, and carbon dioxide accumulates. Cold stimuli in the external environment, such as low room temperature in winter nights, when the quilt is too thin or the legs and feet are exposed to the outside.

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Related inspection

Body temperature measurement EEG for serum calcium (Ca2+, Ca)

Clinical manifestations:

1, the body tonic convulsions: body muscle rigidity, bursts of twitching, angulation of the horns (head back, the whole body is curved back and bowed), eyes up or gaze, unconscious.

2, limited convulsions: only local muscle twitch, such as only one side of the body twitch, or facial muscle twitch, or finger, toe twitch, or eyeball rotation, nystagmus, blinking action, gaze and so on. Most of them are unconscious. The fashion of the above ventilating can be a few seconds or a few minutes, in severe cases, several minutes or repeated episodes, and the convulsion lasts for more than 30 minutes.

3, febrile seizures: mainly seen in children from 6 months to 4 years old when the high heat occurred in the wind. The febrile seizures are short-lived, and the recovery is quick after the pumping. Most of them occur in the early stage of fever. In a fever of the disease, there is often only one episode of convulsion, which can rule out diseases and other serious diseases in the brain. The EEG is normal.

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