Cramps are involuntary muscle contractions, sudden and painful. They can appear on exertion or at rest.
The causes of cramping are many: excessive physical exertion, lack of heating, poor recovery after exercise, lack of hydration, lack of potassium, calcium or magnesium.
When a muscle contracts and that lack of oxygen, it produces more lactic acid than usual. Lactic acid will make the stiffer and more painful muscle, it also prevents the release of calcium and causes cramp.
So how prevent muscle cramps? Here are some tips:
- Avoid:
-the taking excessive coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco which increase muscle fatigability and delay the elimination of toxins
-the too intense or prolonged efforts
- Do not forget to :
-boire regularly before, during and after sports. During exercise, drink small sips every 20 minutes. There are a large number of sports drinks on the market, they are enriched in salt and minerals. Be careful not to choose too sweet.
-adapter your sportswear weather to help your muscles to fight against the cold or moisture.
- At power level, it is worth:
-boire fresh fruit juice that will facilitate the elimination of toxins from the body
-eat the honey, rich in mineral salts at a rate equivalent to three tablespoons per day
-avoid meat and sausage (rich in nitrogen difficult to remove)
- At the medical level:
-after any fluid loss (sweating, vomiting, diarrhea), take a potassium cure. Caution the potassium level in the blood is to be taken into account in certain treatments against hypertension.
-Make dissolve under the tongue of homeopathic granules of Cuprum metallicum 5CH when cramp
-it is a drug based on quinine and thiamine. This drug requires a prescription to be delivered in pharmacy.
- Grandmother remedy against nocturnal muscle cramps:
