Water retention is quite common, especially during the IETA and when the weather changes, when it comes to creating of intumescences or edema.
Water retention symptoms
The problem is more common in women, usually a week before menstruation, due to hormonal changes, and as a result a bloating stomach is created, a feeling of heaviness in the legs and fatigue. Bloating of the stomach can cause poor blood circulation and lymph flow, malfunction of the heart, kidney, bladder and liver, hormonal changes, diabetes, and even food allergies and lack of important nutrients, especially certain vitamins and minerals. Water retention is promoted with the consumption of too much salt and too little fluid causing swelling of the stomach, and for the edema it is characteristic that when pressing on the surface of the skin an impression is left for a few moments. Edema can occur on any part of the body, and usually occurs on the lower legs, causing leg swelling, edema of the abdominal cavity, edema on the face, hands and fingers, sometimes in the lungs. Local swelling, for example joints and fingers, are usually temporary and are a consequence of long sitting or standing, as well as poor circulation due to ill body position, and generally disappear spontaneously without therapy.
This disorder is most often manifested on the feet and legs as well as swelling of the legs, but it can occur on the hands, arms, in the abdominal cavity and around the lungs (pulmonary edema).
How to prevent water retention?
Water retention occurs as a result of various diseases and you must first determine the cause of this condition in order to treat it. As a therapy for edema, diuretics are often given and a correction of the diet is highly recommended. The person to whom the doctor prescribed diuretic drugs as a therapy against water retention in the body has to be careful because they promote loss of potassium and magnesium,they are very important for our nervous system and muscles to function properly, fat burning and energy in general.
How to prevent flatulence and bloating of the stomach?
Mix equal parts of horsetail, corn silk and knotweed, take three tablespoons of the mixture, mix them with 7 dl of boiling water and let it sit covered for 60 minutes.
Strain and drink in small sips all throughout the day instead of water.
The following mixture is also good for bloated stomach:
Mix equal parts of the flower called, rosehip fruit, root selenium, birch and horsetail, take three tablespoons of the mixture, mix them with 7 dl of boiling water and let it sit covered for 60 minutes.
Strain and drink in small sips all throughout the day instead of water.
Tea mixture to treat stomach bloating
Take equal parts of horsetail, birch, knotweed, rosehip, selenium root, corn silk and a little basil and mix four tablespoons of the mixture with 9 dl of boiling water and let it sit covered for 60 minutes.
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