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1. How alcohol affects the body
2. Causes of leg pain
3. Possible diseases
4. How to relieve pain
5. Prevention of leg pain and treatment of alcoholism

People regularly drink alcohol on holidays or at the end of the work week. After drinking, the next morning you feel terrible, which is accompanied by migraines, dizziness, nausea, and weakness. During a hangover, heaviness and pain in the legs may appear, which signals the development of severe pathologies. These symptoms cannot be ignored, since ethanol has a destructive effect on joints, bone, muscle, and cartilage tissue.

Content:

1. What structures are affected by alcoholic binges?
2. Caused disorders in the lower extremities
3. Characteristics of leg pain
4. Leg diseases due to alcoholism
5. Treatment

Alcohol in large quantities causes a number of pathological changes in the body. A person who recently relaxed under the influence of alcohol begins to suffer and present various complaints. In this article we will explain why your legs hurt after drinking.

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What body structures are affected by alcohol binge drinking?

Alcoholic drinks, taken rarely in small quantities, do not lead to critical consequences. Those occur with prolonged use of alcohol. Observed:

• toxic damage to body structures;

• 
  failure of physical and chemical processes in them;

• change in water-salt balance;
• lack of vitamins and microelements.

Alcohol affects the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, and genitourinary systems and does not spare the musculoskeletal system.

As for the musculoskeletal system, disorders due to alcohol abuse often manifest themselves as pain in the lower extremities. This should not be taken lightly - pain can signal pathologies that, as they progress, can lead to permanent or even irreversible disability.

Swelling of the face

Puffiness of the face, swollen eyelids, bags under the eyes immediately indicate a binge alcoholic. Swelling affects women more often than men. This is due to the characteristics of metabolism. The main reasons for this condition after binge drinking are:

• consumption of salty snacks and smoked foods together with alcohol;
• avitaminosis. Healthy foods are rarely consumed with alcohol. Alcohol also interferes with the absorption of microelements;
• sleep disturbance. Sleep after alcohol abuse is long, but superficial. As a result, anxiety and chronic fatigue arise, which negatively affects metabolic processes and causes fluid stagnation;
• allergic reaction. Alcoholic drinks contain chemical components that cause a reaction in the form of swelling.

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Minor swelling on the face can be removed using folk remedies:

• lotions from raw potatoes. You can apply slices of chopped vegetables to the site of swelling, but it is better to grate it on a fine grater so that the juice is released better. You need to keep the compress for at least 15 minutes;
• parsley. The greens should be chopped and applied to the site of swelling. The effectiveness of the compress increases if you add parsley to green tea;
• lotions made from strongly brewed black tea;
• massage. It should be carried out with light patting movements in the direction from the inside of the face to the outside;
• compresses made from cucumber cut into slices or mashed into pulp;
• rubbing with ice cubes. You can use plain water, but it is better to use frozen chamomile infusion or green tea. This method of combating edema cannot be used in the presence of inflammatory processes or sensitive skin.

When carrying out any procedure, it is recommended to maintain contrast and alternate cold compresses with hot ones. This way the swelling will go away faster. It is also recommended to maintain a drinking regime, since edema is a consequence of water and electrolyte imbalance. You need to drink juices with a high content of vitamin C, fruit drinks, compotes. To replenish the content of microelements, brine is recommended, but not marinade. Coffee should be excluded. The drink has a diuretic effect and removes beneficial elements from the body.

Traditional methods will only help if the drinking was one-time and the swelling is insignificant. With chronic heavy drinking, swelling is permanent. To eliminate the problem, you must first eliminate alcohol consumption and then undergo addiction treatment. In women, swelling may persist for a long time after therapy or remain permanently. This negatively affects appearance and health, so it is better for the fairer sex to completely stop drinking alcohol.

Caused disorders in the lower extremities

If a person regularly takes large amounts of alcohol, the following are observed in the lower extremities:

• slowing down blood flow through arterial and venous vessels;
• deterioration of metabolic processes - due to the fact that the supply of nutrients to them is disrupted;
• failure of nerve conduction.

Associated causes of pathological phenomena during a drunken state are that during it the alcoholic:

• eats little - again the tissues receive less nutrients;
• lies in one position - because of this, blood vessels and nerve endings are compressed with all the ensuing consequences.

The most common causes of leg disorders due to alcohol abuse are:

• venous insufficiency;
• deterioration of capillary patency;
• edema syndrome;
• lack of potassium;
• disturbance of calcium metabolism.

Under the influence of ethyl alcohol and its metabolites (substances that are formed as a result of its chemical transformation), the physical properties of the blood are disrupted. For this reason, it flows more slowly through vessels (especially small ones). This leads to a deterioration in the blood supply to tissue structures - they receive less oxygen, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, mineral compounds and vitamins.

When ethyl alcohol affects the smallest vessels (capillaries), they expand and then narrow, their patency deteriorates. Considering also the fact that blood flows through them more slowly, preconditions are created for the formation of small blood clots (blood clots), which clog the capillaries - the patency of small vessels is even more impaired.

Edema appears due to the fact that the outflow of venous blood worsens.

Alcohol binge provokes a failure in the metabolism of all mineral compounds. One of the most pronounced is potassium deficiency. As a result, nerve conduction suffers - the central nervous system generates commands to muscles and joints, but they are carried out with disturbances, and in difficult cases they are not carried out at all (paralysis occurs).

Under the influence of alcohol, calcium is absorbed worse, and there is less of it in bone structures. At the same time, urates (insoluble salts of uric acid) accumulate in them, which leads to joint pathologies.

How to relieve pain?

The main thing is to contact a neurologist in a timely manner and start therapy. We cannot hide the fact that unpleasant symptoms appear after drinking alcohol. This information will help the doctor make the correct diagnosis and choose a treatment strategy. If, after diagnosis, inflammation is detected in the soft tissues, the doctor may prescribe ointments for local application:

1. Nise – eliminates pain, slows down the destruction of bones and tissues.
2. Diclofenac - gives quick results and is inexpensive.
3. Meloxicam is a powerful anti-inflammatory drug with a pronounced effect.
4. Indomethacin - eliminates inflammation and pain, rarely causes side effects.

In severe cases, the doctor prescribes oral or injectable medications to relieve acute pain. If a specialist detects gout, treatment is aimed at removing uric acid and salt deposits. To eliminate the pathology, the following types of drugs are prescribed:

1. Steroids.
2. Painkillers.
3. Anti-inflammatory.
4. Uricosuric.

It will not be possible to achieve a positive result if a person continues to drink alcoholic beverages.

When varicose veins are detected, therapy is aimed at eliminating cholesterol plaques and blood clots, as well as strengthening blood vessels. For local treatment of problem areas, an ointment called Troxevasin is often prescribed.

If the pathology has not progressed to the chronic stage and the mobility of the lower extremities is slightly reduced, then the condition can be improved at home. For this you can use:

1. Warm foot bath with sea salt and medicinal herbs.
2. Massage to stimulate nerve endings and improve blood circulation.
3. Special underwear and elastic bandage to improve well-being with varicose veins.
4. Medicinal ointments, including Troxevasin, Lyoton, Venitan.
5. Vitamin and mineral complexes with high potassium content.
6. Toning drinks, including freshly squeezed juices and green tea.

These procedures will help alleviate the condition and eliminate pain. They will not help to completely get rid of the problem and replace treatment with a neurologist. Don't put off visiting your doctor.

Characteristics of leg pain

Due to the described pathological processes, pain occurs. Their characteristics are as follows:

• by localization - in the muscles, joints, bones of the legs and feet, less often the hips;
• according to the characteristics - aching, aching-pressing, sometimes twisting;
• by occurrence - observed constantly, intensifying in the evening and at night;
• in intensity - of varying severity, increase with physical activity.

At the same time they are concerned about:

• convulsions;
• feeling of heaviness;
• feeling of fullness in the legs and feet;
• numbness;
• weakness;
• difficulty walking - the patient complains that his legs are giving out after heavy drinking;
• tingling;
• decreased sensitivity.

The muscles become flabby and their volume decreases.

Leg diseases due to alcoholism

Over time, the described pain syndrome increases in alcoholics. But it is not the syndrome itself that should cause concern, but the pathologies that this syndrome signals. Most often this is:

• alcoholic polyneuropathy - damage to peripheral nerve endings;
• alcoholic myopathy - muscle damage;
• phlebothrombitis - the formation of blood clots in the veins due to damage to their walls;
• arthrosis - degenerative changes in the joints.

Treatment

Using medications to purely eliminate pain in the legs after heavy drinking and other unpleasant sensations is a vicious tactic: it is necessary to identify and treat the diseases that provoked their appearance. Since the immediate causes of severe discomfort can be various pathologies, consultation with different specialists will be required:

• therapist;
• surgeon;
• phlebologist;
• orthopedist;
• neurologist.

A comprehensive examination is necessary, because symptoms can be triggered by changes in muscle mass, joints and bone structures.

Treatment usually includes:

• painkillers;
• diuretics;
• drugs that normalize conduction through nerve structures.

Physiotherapeutic methods are also used.

All prescriptions must be made exclusively by a doctor. He not only determines the optimal treatment regimen, but also monitors the dynamics of the diseases that cause pain and makes the necessary changes to the prescription.

Please note: It is impossible to treat pathologies that provoke the described pain without eliminating their main cause - addiction to alcohol. The patient should go to a drug treatment clinic - there they will help him get rid of alcoholism, which caused pathologies accompanied by pain.

Causes of seizures

Factors that provoke muscle contractions are:

· Intoxication of the brain with alcohol, narcotic or toxic substances.

· Head injury or congenital characteristics of the person.

· Concomitant medical conditions, such as a tumor, blood clot, or inflammation in the brain.

· Lack of microelements potassium and magnesium in the body. It occurs with repeated vomiting and diarrhea associated with a hangover .

If a person has prerequisites for the occurrence of convulsive contractions, then a large dose of alcohol will act as a trigger that will provoke a negative symptom. chronic alcoholics and prolonged can also cause muscle contractions .

Regularly recurring seizures, which are accompanied by loss of consciousness and memory, hallucinations and a distorted perception of reality, indicate the development of alcoholic epilepsy. To identify the cause of epilepsy and rule out other causes of seizures, your doctor will perform a neurological examination. During it, the doctor checks muscle strength, reflexes and sensations. In addition, the heart, lungs and blood pressure also need to be examined.

A CT scan or MRI of the head is usually ordered to find out if there are changes in the brain that explain the epilepsy.