& ldquo; Human feet are like tree roots;, This proverb spread among the people shows the importance of feet. The human body is an organism with multiple tissues and organs interrelated. Your feet are a mirror of your health. Paying attention to the abnormal changes of both feet is helpful to detect some diseases as soon as possible and buy time for treatment. Let’s take a look with you.
Foot swelling
foot swelling is also one of the common manifestations of foot abnormalities. If it is found that it belongs to physiological foot swelling, it is mostly caused by diseases.
1. Cardiogenic diseases: cardiogenic diseases, such as chronic cardiac insufficiency and heart failure, can cause edema of feet. Therefore, the feet appear unwarranted edema, do not be careless, it is best to go to the hospital to check the heart.
2. Kidney disease: kidney diseases such as renal insufficiency and nephrotic syndrome are the most common causes of foot swelling. At the same time, judge whether the foot edema caused by the kidney. You can also look at the eyes. Generally, if there is a problem with the kidney, the eyes will also be swollen.
3. Vascular diseases: vascular diseases can also cause foot swelling, such as venous valve insufficiency, venous reflux disorder and deep venous thrombosis.
4. Liver diseases: the liver is an important organ for human protein synthesis. For people with chronic liver diseases, the amount of albumin in the blood decreases and the blood osmotic pressure decreases, which will cause foot swelling.
Foot numbness
1. Precursor of stroke: foot numbness may be a precursor of stroke. If people with arteriosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other diseases often feel numbness in their feet, it may be a precursor of stroke. Most of these patients show weakness and numbness in one or both limbs, most of which will not only occur on the feet. If asked carefully, patients will also be accompanied by aphasia, hearing changes, blurred speech, etc. This phenomenon is called & ldquo; in medicine; Minor stroke & rdquo;, It often occurs before explosive stroke. People with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as hypertension must pay attention to it.
2. Lumbar disc herniation: in patients with lumbar disc herniation, the sciatic nerve is easy to be compressed. The sciatic nerve is the main nerve trunk innervating the lower limbs. Its pathway is along the waist, hip, back of thigh, posterolateral of lower leg to the outside of foot. Therefore, patients with lumbar disc herniation are prone to foot numbness, and they will be accompanied by low back pain, leg pain and so on. There are also some patients with alternating numbness in their feet. Most of these people belong to central lumbar disc herniation.
3, diabetes complications: the blood sugar increase of sugar friend can cause nerve fiber metabolism disorder, leading to peripheral neuropathy. At this time, numbness at the end of limbs will also occur. According to the general situation, the lower extremities will be more serious than the upper extremities. If the patients already know that they have diabetes, they should actively treat the primary diseases that cause the diseases of the upper and lower extremities. Diabetes mellitus is also a must if patients with foot numbness have family history or obesity.
Foot pain
, early signs of diabetic foot: some friends will suffer from leg pain and foot pain after walking for a certain period of time. Many people think of these symptoms as &ldquo. Old cold legs & rdquo;, Or think it’s caused by lumbar disease. These symptoms may be common diseases for ordinary people, but for diabetics, they may be signals of diabetic foot. Be more careful.
toe pain, gout is easy to cause sudden pain in the big toe, accompanied by redness and swelling. Osteoarthritis and thumb stiffness can also cause redness, swelling and pain in the big toe. Pain in the little toe (usually the third and fourth metatarsal) is often associated with Morton neuroma (also known as interphalangeal neuroma). Women are 8 to 10 times more likely to suffer from the disease than men. The cause is usually trauma or excessive toe pressure.
2. Arteriosclerosis of lower limbs: the elderly feel a little pain in their feet after walking for some time. Don’t be careless! In addition to suspected lumbar disc herniation, the possibility of lower extremity arteriosclerosis obliterans or acute arterial embolism should also be considered. Arteriosclerosis obliterans of the lower limbs is a series of symptoms caused by insufficient blood supply to the legs and feet because the arteries on the legs are blocked. Generally, it’s OK when you don’t walk and don’t feel pain; Once you walk more, you will have foot pain and leg pain.