Click a hole, swollen legs are sometimes an early warning of cancer!

According to the “Youth Times” report, the 92-year-old Uncle Bi has been very strong for many years and has hardly been in a hospital for decades.

Half a month before admission to the hospital, Uncle Bi appeared inexplicablyswollen legs< span> symptoms, his legs were very weak, so he also fell at home. Even after wrestling, Uncle Bi was reluctant to go to the hospital for examination. The family persuaded him back and forth for a long time before finally persuading him to go to the hospital for examination.

After going to the hospital, after examination, Uncle Bi was found to be short of breath, abnormally swollen abdomen, positive for tenderness in the liver area, and pain in both lower extremities Moderate pitting edema. The doctor’s initial judgment was likely to be an advanced liver tumor, but further examination overturned the doctor’s judgment. Uncle Bi suffered fromadvanced gastric and rectal cancer, accompanied by liver and bone metastases.

This result is unacceptable to the family. How could Uncle Bi, who has always been strong and strong, suddenly have terminal cancer? The abnormal edema on Uncle Bi’s legs is actually a hint of cancer, but this is only a clinical case. There are many reasons for leg swelling. Follow Xiao Ai to see them one by one.

1. The legs are swollen, if you press a hole, it is possible that these diseases have already caused ghosts

The first thing to emphasize is that swollen legs are not necessarily diseases or even cancer. Wu Xianming, director of the Department of Nephrology, Rheumatism and Immunology, Zhengzhou No. 3 Hospital said that leg edema may be due to excessive intake of salt in the diet, resulting in water and sodium in the body Retention, caused by increased burden on the kidneys, may also be caused by poor blood circulation in the lower extremities due to prolonged sitting. In addition to physiological factors, these diseases may also induce body edema.

1. Liver disease

Abnormal liver function can lead to ascites, which in turn causes lower extremity Abnormal.

2. Kidney disease

The kidney is the organ responsible for metabolizing water in our body. Abnormal kidney function will lead to the inability of water to be excreted from the body in time, and a large amount of water will accumulate in the body, causing renal edema.

3. Heart disease

The role of the heart in the body is to continuously recycle blood and The oxygen-rich blood that is pumped out is supplied to the various tissues of the body. Abnormal heart function will cause the heart to not pump blood normally, and the venous blood will not return normally, which is easy to cause systemic edema symptoms.

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When the respiratory system is abnormal, it is also easy to cause abnormal edema in the body. For example, some elderly people suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary edema, which will lead to the involvement of the heart, and then causePulmonary heart disease occurs.

5. Lower extremity vascular disease

There are veins and arteries in our lower extremities. Occlusion or thrombosis of any of the blood vessels may cause abnormal changes in the lower extremities, and edema is one of the more common manifestations.

I believe that many people have heard the old saying “men are afraid of wearing boots and women are afraid of wearing hats”. Once edema occurs, it is not far from death? Is there any scientific basis for this claim?

Second, it is said that men are afraid of wearing boots and women are afraid of wearing hats. Is the death not far from the swollen legs?

This sentence actually means that men are afraid of swollen feet and women are afraid of swollen faces. Once edema occurs, it means that the person’s life is coming to an end. In fact, there are many causes of edema, ranging from mild to severe, and it cannot be roughly understood that death is not far away.

Take cancer as an example, edema in cancer patients is not necessarily a precursor to death. Malignant tumors may lead to qualitative changes in various organs in the body, such as abnormal liver and kidney functionand then cause edema, and may also severe malnutrition, anemia, hypoalbuminemia, and vitamin B deficiency in patients, which may also lead to decreased plasma colloid osmotic pressure, Induced edema, and some patients have edema due to lower extremity blood vessels and lymphatic vessels are compressed by the lesions, resulting in blood and lymphatic reflux Edema caused by the disorder.

Guo Lihua, co-supervisor of postdoctoral workstation of Yunnan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine< /strong> said that for some cancerous edema with known etiology, corresponding treatment can be carried out according to the nature and onset of the primary disease. In some patients, after the primary disease is controlled, the physiological disorder in the body will be corrected, and the symptoms of edema can also be relieved.

Many times, the legs can be used as a “barometer” for our health. In addition to edema, when these three abnormal symptoms occur in the legs, we also need to be vigilant and seek medical attention in time.

Third, a final reminder: if these abnormalities occur in the legs, don’t be careless

1. Nocturnal pain

Osteosarcoma can cause abnormal leg pain in patients. The symptoms are more severe than the daytime symptoms, and the pain will continue to increase after exertion and trauma. As the disease progresses, the pain will also develop gradually and may evolve into persistent pain.

2. Easy to fracture

When the tumor metastasizes to bone, it will lead to the patient’s fracture. Bone becomes “brittle” and fractures can occur with no daily injury or minor stress. Such fractures are called pathological fractures.

3. Mass palpable

Mesenchymal malignant tumor< /span>It mostly occurs in the extremities. The disease is caused by two or more mesenchymal sarcomas, including osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, chondrosarcoma, and angiosarcoma, among which malignant In most cases, the disease will cause severe damage to the patient’s bone tissue. The symptoms of the disease are not very obvious in the early stages, but abnormal lumps appear in the legs. As the disease progresses, the lumps grow rapidly and may grow to several kilograms in size.

It is worth reminding that the above symptoms are not necessarily all diseases, cancers It may also be caused by some physiological reasons, whether it is leg swelling or other symptoms, the first thing you need to do after finding an abnormality is to seek medical examination to avoid delaying the best time for treatment.

The legs are very important to everyone. You should observe the state of your legs more on a daily basis, and seek medical attention in time if any abnormality is found. #HealthTrue Knowledge Plan#

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