What are the causes of leg cramps in children?

Sometimes it is very worrying for adults when children are sick. After all, children have no resistance, and if the disease is not treated in time, it will affect the child's physical development. Some children will experience leg cramps. In order to solve this problem, today we will tell you what are the causes of leg cramps in children?

The most common causes of cramps are as follows:

① Cold stimulation from the external environment, such as low room temperature at night in winter, using a quilt that is too thin during sleep, or exposing legs and feet outside the quilt.

② Fatigue, lack of sleep, rest or excessive rest can lead to the accumulation of local acidic metabolic products, which can cause muscle spasms. Walking or exercising for too long, which causes excessive fatigue in the lower limbs, or lack of rest and sleep, can cause lactic acid accumulation. Sleeping and resting too much or too long can slow down blood circulation and cause carbon dioxide accumulation.

③ Decreased estrogen levels and osteoporosis in elderly women can cause low blood calcium levels, increased muscle irritability, and frequent cramps.

④ Bad sleeping posture, such as lying on your back for a long time with the quilt pressing on your feet, or lying on your stomach for a long time with your feet against the bed, forcing certain calf muscles to be in an absolutely relaxed state for a long time, causing "passive contracture" of the muscles.

What should you do when cramps occur? Taking different countermeasures according to different causes can quickly relieve cramps and relieve pain. When cramps occur, just do the opposite, that is, bend your toes in the direction opposite to the force and persist for more than 1 to 2 minutes, and the effect will be achieved. Specifically, if the muscles in the back of the calf cramp, you can bend your foot so that the sole of your foot is lifted up, and at the same time try to straighten your knee joint; when the muscles in the front of the calf cramp, you can press down on the sole of your foot and bend your toes forcefully.

Common causes of leg cramps

①Cold stimulation. Such as exercising in a cold environment in winter. Insufficient warm-up exercises or lower water temperature during swimming in summer can easily cause leg cramps. If you don't cover yourself with a blanket when you sleep at night, your calf muscles will be stimulated by the cold. The spasms would be so painful that they would wake people up.

② Muscles contract too quickly and continuously. During strenuous exercise. The whole body is in a state of tension and the leg muscles contract too quickly. If the relaxation time is too short, the local metabolic product lactic acid will increase, and muscle contraction and relaxation will be difficult to coordinate, thus causing calf muscle cramps.

③Excessive sweating. Long exercise time. You exercise a lot, sweat a lot, and don't replenish salt in time. A large amount of fluid and electrolytes are lost from the body. Accumulation of metabolic waste. Poor local blood circulation in muscles can also lead to cramps.

④Excessive fatigue. The calf muscles are most susceptible to fatigue when traveling long distances, climbing mountains, or climbing heights. Because every time I climb high. The whole body weight is supported by one foot. The strength required for the muscles of this leg to lift the foot will be six times the human body weight. When it is fatigued to a certain extent, cramps will occur.

⑤ Calcium deficiency. During muscle contraction. Calcium ions play an important role. When the calcium ion concentration in the blood is too low, muscles become easily excited and cramp. Teenagers grow and develop rapidly and are easily deficient in calcium, which is why they often suffer from leg cramps.

The above describes the knowledge about the causes of leg cramps in children. I hope that this knowledge can be of great help to parents. After all, such situations often occur in children, which is very troublesome for adults. Therefore, when your children have these conditions, you should seek treatment. I hope that children can grow up healthy and happy.