Restless leg syndrome how to return a responsibility?

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Silent night, a legs suddenly "restless" up, pain, itching, like ants crawling, unspeakable discomfort... In short, discomfort makes it difficult to sleep. For the leg discomfort at night, people often use the "chain reaction" caused by calcium deficiency or arthritis to explain it. Is this really the case? The doctor's answer is No. Restless legs disturb people's recuperative sleep, which is also a kind of disease, it is called restless legs syndrome. Now let's talk about restless legs syndrome?.

Restless leg syndrome how to return a responsibility?

First: irregular sleep, lack of sleep, will harm health. In order to have a quiet sleep, how to comfort your restless legs before going to bed? Mild restless legs syndrome can promote the blood circulation of legs and relieve the discomfort of legs by developing good living habits, such as washing feet with hot water, bathing legs or taking a hot bath one or two hours before going to sleep, and massage the legs at the same time. At ordinary times, the intake of coffee, tea and alcohol should be controlled. It is best to quit smoking and keep moderate exercise every day, All of these can alleviate the symptoms to a certain extent. The way of "massage + hot bath" can not only make the legs feel comfortable, but also make it easier to fall asleep.

Second: "restless legs syndrome", this disease sounds new, but it really happens to many people. According to experts, restless legs syndrome is one of the diseases leading to insomnia. It is characterized by serious performance in a quiet state and disappearing after activity. Generally speaking, it makes the patients feel uncomfortable in the legs, and forces the limbs to move involuntarily. People with this disease describe this feeling as pulling, dragging, insect bite, tingling, numbness, itching, tremor, heaviness, cramping and swelling, etc., which can only be alleviated by beating, shaking the lower limbs or taking a few steps to the ground. Once they stop or just fall asleep, they will feel sick, These symptoms will worsen. In the long run, sleep disorder is inevitable, which is also the reason why some people suffering from restless legs syndrome also feel useless taking sleeping pills. As a result of long-term sleep, many patients even appear depression and other emotional disorders, seriously affecting physical and mental health.

Third: if restless legs have seriously affected sleep or quality of life, we should also seek medical treatment as soon as possible, because simple sleeping drugs may not be effective for restless legs. Taking some sleep promoting drugs on our own can hardly make the legs really peaceful. At present, the best treatment for restless legs syndrome is dialectical treatment of traditional Chinese medicine.

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Under normal circumstances, when lying in bed at night, the symptoms become strong and reach the peak after midnight. Patients are forced to kick, move joints or massage their legs. Patients often describe that "there is no comfortable place to put their legs." Severe cases need to get up and keep walking to get relief. Insomnia is the inevitable result, most of the patients accompanied by periodic body movements during sleep. PMS is a rigid, repetitive flexion of the legs during REM sleep, which can wake the patient up. Due to sleep disorders at night, the patient suffered from severe daytime sleepiness and decreased work ability.