Edema - a sign of many dangerous diseases

Edema is a sign of many deadly dangerous diseases such as liver, kidney, cancer . So when you get signs of edema, you should go to the doctor to find the cause and have timely treatment.

Edema is a phenomenon of hydration in the subcutaneous or organ organs of the body. Edema may be localized in the limbs, face, chest, sometimes full body edema.

Why is the body edema?

According to Dr. Phan Van Ngoc, Head of the General Department of Internal Medicine, Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City:

The edema of the body consists of two forms: soft edema and stiff edema . Hard edema occurs usually as a thyroid-related disease. And soft edema, also called edema, comes from the phenomenon of fluid from the inside of the circuit to the outside of the cell.

Compared with hard edema, soft edema is easier to detect. When you use your hand to press your skin on a hard floor when you pull your hand out, you see the imprint where it is sunk.

Causes of edema may be due to the body's inability to hold water when it lacks protein and albumin, which causes the body to suffer.

Foot skin is concave when pressing down with your hand

Detect edema

In the eyes, people can see immediately, but sometimes it is difficult to identify the edema. The patient feels heavy, heavy feet. The place is swollen and swollen, causing the wrinkles, fish eyes and bone heads to lose. Skin of pale edema area, press into the place where the edema of the skin is concave, especially press on the front of the tibia.

The signs are associated with less urine, large liver, ascites, difficulty breathing . Water retention, so the weight can increase daily from 1 to 2 kg.

Full body edema

Usually edema from the face, abdomen, chest, legs, hands, accompanied by pleural effusion, peritoneum, pericardium, testicular membrane. Meet the following diseases:

Fatty kidney : Very large edema. White edema, at first edema in the face, after edema whole body. Often accompanied by pleural effusion, peritoneal fluid. Eating light does not reduce edema. Urine is high in protein. Blood tests: urea, creatinine are not high, protein is much reduced, cholesterol is much increased.

Acute or chronic glomerulonephritis : White, soft edema, concave, full body edema, clear at the lower extremities. Eating pale and well reduced. May be accompanied by hypertension, pleural effusion, pericardium. Less urine, cloudy, protein, urine. May be anemic. Renal dysfunction, creatinine increased.

Malnutrition : edema of the whole body or the lower extremities, white, soft edema, indentation, the degree of edema in the morning and afternoon equally. Urine does not have protein. Often due to lack of food or chronic diseases such as long-term digestive disorders, tuberculosis, cancer, paralysis, long-term chronic diseases.

Edema due to endocrine : Edema due to increased aldosteron: White edema, indentation, edema of the lower extremities, sometimes edema, discreet edema, there are cases of self-relief. Meet in women, related to the menstrual cycle. Urine does not have protein. Treatment with spirolacton is effective.

Edema due to hypothyroidism : stiffness, non-concave, rounded eyes, thick lips, large tongue. Toenails, hands well, dry, hard, brittle hair. Slow, poor intellectual development, reduced temperature, lower blood pressure, slow pulse.

Edema due to adrenal adrenal function : Red round face, hard edema, increased blood pressure. Meet in people with adrenocortical tumors, people who take corticosteroids for a long time, if they stop taking the symptoms, the symptoms will go away.

Suitable for signs of cardiovascular disease

Fugitive

Breast edema : Also known as a blouse, the breast edema may be raised on the neck, face or both hands. Due to the pressure on the lymph nodes in the chest and the superior vena cava. On the chest skin, there are many swollen purple blood vessels, patients with chest pain and big breasts. Chest X-rays often show mediastinal tumors.

Edema of the lower extremities : Due to heart failure and cirrhosis:

Due to heart failure : at first edema with 2 ankles, soft edema, indentation. Edema appeared in the afternoon, lost in the early morning and at rest. The legs were very big, sometimes cracking the skin, the yellow water oozing out. Eating pale and well reduced. Accompanied by large heart, enlarged liver, floating neck veins, fast vessels, shortness of breath, poor urination. Severe heart failure may have ascites, pleural effusion.

Due to cirrhosis : the liver can be large, hard, often atrophic. Less edema, pressing concave, after edema. Ascites quickly recurred. May be accompanied by pleural effusion, testicular membrane, floating blood vessels in the skin of the abdomen. Impaired liver function.

Edema due to lack of vitamin B1 : (Cholera disease or edema). Bipedal edema, indentation, usually well-defined in the afternoon, legs feel numb as crawling ants, or cramps, knee-ribbed reflexes are lost. Often due to lack of long-term eating. Treatment with vitamin B1 edema is markedly reduced. If the mother is raising the child, the baby also has vitamin B1 deficiency, or crying at night, called "stomach" crying.

Edema due to pregnancy : Meet in pregnant women, with or without proteinuria. Periodic antenatal care is required to determine.

Edema of one limb : Much more in the legs than in the hands, due to diseases of the blood vessels.

Thrombophlebitis : Soft edema, indentation, warm skin. Very painful when fitting the limbs. Put your feet up high, lie down and less fit. There is fever, occurs in postpartum people, after pelvic surgery, severe infections.

Lymphatic vasculitis : soft edema, indentation, very painful. Red, hot, and painful skin on the skin. The corresponding lymph nodes in the area such as groin, armpits are also swollen and painful. Sometimes there is a fever. Detects scratches, wounds, boils. In the new case of filariasis, worm larvae can only be found in venous blood at night.

Hard edema : Usually elephant leg edema, sequelae of lymphatic vasculitis caused by worms only. The lymphatic tube ruptures into the organ under the skin, causing stiff edema. The skin is very thick and hard, not concave. Usually one leg, sometimes both legs but not evenly. Genital edema such as scrubby, large and hard scrotum. If the lymphatic tube ruptures into the renal pelvis, then the patient urinates to obstruct the opaque color like the water in the rice.

Allergic edema : Usually occurs suddenly after eating or contacting allergy agents such as medicine, food, house dust, pollen, and caterpillar . All around the eyes, mouth, lumpy skin and itchy, itchy go very quickly when taking anti-allergy medicine, sometimes exist for several days.

In addition, edema may be due to a decrease in the venous system, due to the causes of intravenous compression due to inflammation, cancer or systemic diseases, anemia.

When you have edema, you need to go to a medical facility for the doctors to examine, do tests, identify the disease. From there you will receive advice and treatments for each specific cause of each disease.