Muscle spasms are clinically referred to as cramps because of a condition caused by spontaneous tonic contractions of muscles.
Among them, the incidence of calf and toe cramps is the most common, and it will make people feel unbearable pain when they occur, and it may take a few seconds to tens of seconds to disappear.
I would like to remind everyone that if you always have leg cramps in the middle of the night, you should be vigilant that it is caused by the following four situations.
1. Calcium deficiency
When the bones are deficient in calcium, it will cause abnormal spasms in the muscles of the legs, making people feel obvious pain. This is especially true for children who are in the growing season, as well as elderly and menopausal women who are aging.
Most of them are sleeping at night, the body is in a static state of leg cramps, so that people are awakened in pain in sleep, and calcium nutrition needs to be supplemented in time to improve the condition.
2. Improper sleeping position
If people stay in a supine or prone position for a long time while sleeping, it is possible to make the leg muscles in a relaxed state for a long time, and local muscles may have passive spasms and pain;
In addition, if you press one leg for a long time while sleeping, it will also lead to poor blood supply to the muscles in the leg, causing numbness or cramps. Usually after adjusting the posture, the condition of leg cramps can be improved.
In addition, when not covering the quilt when sleeping, resulting in the legs being exposed to cold air for a long time, the stimulation of the legs by the cold will also cause local muscle tonic spasms, causing painful symptoms in the legs
Not only that, but the cold in the legs may also affect local blood circulation, making people feel numb in the legs.
After this happens, it is necessary to take warm measures in time, so that after the temperature of the legs rises, the pain symptoms can be alleviated.
3. Excessive fatigue or too much rest
If a person walks and stands for a long time, the human body is prone to a large number of acidic metabolites in the case of excessive fatigue, and if these metabolites are gathered in the legs, they will cause muscle spasms in the legs, causing different degrees of pain;
Long-term rest or sleep will also affect the slowing down of blood circulation in the legs, and a large amount of carbon dioxide will accumulate after the body's metabolic function is weakened, causing leg cramps after a large amount of acidic substances are generated.
In order to improve this situation, everyone should avoid physical overwork in peacetime, and pay attention to the combination of work and leisure, so as to avoid unnecessary injury to the body.
4. Disease
Some epilepsy, tetanus, rabies patients are prone to leg cramps in the case of illness or high fever in the body, especially at night when sleeping, the whole body is in a calm state, the frequency of muscle tonic contractions is higher, and the pain symptoms felt by patients are more obvious.
If you want to improve this situation, you must go to the hospital in time to treat the primary disease, and the body can only get better after controlling the primary disease.
Leg smoking in the middle of the night may be caused by the above four conditions, I hope that everyone will understand the situation after the symptoms to judge their own situation, and to be nourished.
If the cramping situation is more serious, repeated in the middle of the night, the pain is also more intense, after rest can not be improved, you must go to the hospital in time to receive the corresponding examination, ask the doctor to clarify the condition and then carry out targeted treatment, so that the body can be restored to health as soon as possible.