Question: I’m having bone and palm pain and swelling of feet. Pain is under the feet which goes away after walking.
Answer:
Causes for swelling in the feet and ankles:
- Local trauma. This is associated with pain on any attempt to walk or put pressure on the foot, localized redness with a evident history of an injury/trauma.
- Arthritis, a condition resulting in inflamed joints also causes localized pain and swelling.
- Varicosity with deep venous thrombosis.
- Systemic Conditions can also result in swelling in the feet and ankle and is characterized by retention of sodium and fluids.A cardiac disorder or a kidney trouble or even a lung disease results in edema feet.
- A thyroid dysfunction.
- Anemia and hypo-protienimia may also cause edema of the extremities.
- Hence, it is vital that you get yourself examined by a doctor immediately and get the necessary investigations done.
- What is your age?
- Is there a family history of cardiac, kidney or lung disorders?
Treatments for Swollen Legs and Ankles:
- Always keep your limbs elevated (above the level of your heart) while sitting and lying down to avoid leg and ankle swelling.
- Bryonia 30 every 2 hours will diminish the edema considerably and rapidly.
- Don’t sit or stand for prolonged periods of time, take breaks and walk for short span of time to reduce leg swellings.
- Restrict your salt consumption.
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My mother 84 years old has her left leg and foot swollen. She has visited several physicians and also under medication. Her condition has become worse.
Please suggest whom she must be referred to as she also is diabetic and suffers from hypertension.
Did you have the inflammation immediately after you removed the cast? Do you have any pain?
There is a possibility that the fracture, for which you applied the cast, has not healed properly or that you removed the cast too early before the healing could take place. This may probably be the cause of the inflammation and edema. You can confirm it simply by taking an X-ray of your right leg.
Do you have anyone suffering from diabetes in your family, (your parents or your siblings)? Did you get your blood sugar checked?
Diabetes has a tendency to delay healing process. Normally following any fracture, a cast is ideally applied for a period of minimum 6 weeks, which varies depending upon the age, constitution of the individual and other considerations. Fractures in patients suffering from diabetes will take longer to heal.
Do you like in a tropical country? What you have typically described is an example of elephantiasis, a symptom of Filariasis, which involves edema and thickening of the underlying skin tissue, without pain.
These are just a few suggestions based on what you have mentioned. Please share your personal details like your occupation, country, age, etc and specific local and systemic symptoms for me to be able to give you a more appropriate probable diagnosis.
I have once been on a cast, last two months my leg started swelling, it started like an allergy on the right leg with slight inflammation like I was stung by an insect, I have gone for the creatine, kinase and cholesterol test and all is well. What is happening to my leg?