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For maintaining optimal health, It’s crucial to have routine screenings since Leg Edema can often cause a few symptoms in the early stages. As one of the best kidney specialists, Dr. Fowad Shahzad is an expert in Leg Edema treatment and diagnosing patients with Leg Edema at his Walk-in Health Clinic, reducing the risk of complications and helping them keep themselves as healthy as possible.

What Is Leg Edema?

Edema is swelling caused if excess fluid gets trapped in the tissues of your muscles. You may notice it more in your hands, feet, arms, ankles, and legs, but edema can affect any part of your body.

It can result from pregnancy, medication, or any underlying disease such as kidney disease, congestive heart failure, or liver cirrhosis. In mild cases, you can take medication to remove excess fluid. Reducing the amount of salt in your food also helps relieve edema often. However, when edema occurs as a sign of an underlying disease, separate treatment might be required for the disease itself.

What Are The Risk Factors For Leg Edema?

In pregnancy, the body retains more water and sodium than usual since the fluid is needed by the fetus and placenta. This often increases the risk of developing edema.

The risk of edema may also be increased by the intake of certain medications, including:

Hypertension medications
Steroid drugs
Certain diabetes medications called thiazolidinediones.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Estrogens

Chronic illnesses such as liver/ kidney disease or congestive heart failure can also increase the risk of edema. In addition to this, surgery can obstruct a lymph node in some cases leading to swelling in an arm or leg, commonly on one side only.

What Are The Common Symptoms That Leg Edema Can Cause?

Symptoms of edema can include the following:

Puffiness or swelling of the tissues directly under your skin, generally in your legs or arms
Shiny or Stretched skin
Retention of dimples (pits) on the skin after being pressed for several seconds.
Increase in the size of the abdomen

If you have swelling or any of the symptoms mentioned above, you should make an appointment to see your doctor for treatment. If you have symptoms like Shortness of breath, Difficulty breathing, Chest pain, you might require prompt treatment as these can be signs of pulmonary edema.

Also, if you develop leg pain and swelling that won’t go away due to being in a sitting position for prolonged periods, such as on a long flight, you should immediately call your doctor for swelling leg treatment. Persistent leg pain and swelling can be an indicator of a blood clot deep in your vein.

How Is Edema Treated?

Mild edema usually gets cured without any treatment. Severe cases of edema may require treatment with drugs to help your body expel excess fluid through urination.

However, your doctor will first determine if these drugs are an appropriate option for you based on your personal medical history. In case edema occurs as a sign of an underlying disease, that disease would require separate treatment as well.

If you’re in the vicinity, you can pay us a visit after you’ve booked your appointment. We have the best doctors and staff to offer effective solutions for you.

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Specialist Leg Edema and Diuretic Clinic

Home - Specialist Leg Edema and Diuretic Clinic

What Is Leg Edema?

What Are The Risk Factors For Leg Edema?

What Are The Common Symptoms That Leg Edema Can Cause?

How Is Edema Treated?

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