After a night of sleep, people should feel comfortable and refreshed. But many people wake up and find that their joints are stiff, , numb, , dizzy, and even swollen.
Some diseases like to show their legs in the morning, and some inconspicuous minor symptoms may be signals from the disease.
" Life Times " interviewed an authoritative expert, summarizing the most common abnormal symptoms after getting up in the morning, and telling you how to deal with them symptomatically.
interviewed experts
Director of Nephrology Department, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Director of Nephrology Department, Hu Ying,
Hydrome, Deputy Chief Physician of Orthopedic Surgery Department, Wuhan Central Hospital, Wang Yang,
Hydrome, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Director of Neurology Department, Yuan Baoyu,
Water Swelling
thyroid , abnormal heart and kidney function
After getting up in the morning, if edema often occurs in facial, eyelids , and limbs, it will slowly fade or continue to exist after a while. Pay attention to checking the following diseases:
swollen in the morning and not swollen at night → Beware of abnormal kidney function
edema caused by kidney disease has a typical feature: heavy in the morning and light in the evening, the eyelids are very swollen in the morning, and slowly fade in the afternoon, which is easy to be ignored.
If the edema area is pressed and loosened, the depression does not recover within a few seconds. If this depression edema occurs, beware of heart failure .
Eyelid edema → Beware of abnormal thyroid function
If the eyelids are swollen from morning to night, and the degree of swelling has not changed significantly, beware of abnormal thyroid function.
Recommendation:
If morning edema occurs frequently, go to the cardiology, nephrology or endocrinology department to check for related diseases in time.
But if you drink a lot of water the night before, or if you only occasionally experience mild edema due to fatigue and poor rest, most of them are not serious.
Articular joint stiffness
Osteoarthropathy, rheumatism and immune diseases
After getting up in the morning, if you find that your joints such as fingers, waist and knees are stiff and not flexible enough, you need moderate activity to relieve it. This situation is called morning stiffness.
calculates the length of morning stagnation, which usually starts from the feeling of stiffness after a person wakes up and disappears completely. Morning stiffness that grows at different times often implies different diseases:
Morning stiffness for half an hour → Beware of osteoarthritis
Patients with osteoarthritis may experience morning stiffness after catching a cold or exhausted, which will generally relieve within half an hour. Systemic lupus erythematosus . When systemic sclerosis involves joints, morning stiffness may also occur, but generally not exceeding half an hour.
Morning stiffness for 1 hour → Beware of rheumatoid arthritis
Morning stiffness caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Patients often experience movement disorders between hands and feet, which lasts for more than 1 hour.
Recommendation:
People with morning stiffness should go to the orthopedics or rheumatism and immunology department for treatment and control the primary disease in time.
After waking up, you might as well exercise your body appropriately to increase joint mobility. As the muscles contract, the edema fluid is absorbed by the lymphatic vessels and veins, and the tissues are softened, and morning stiffness will be relieved.
Hand
Nervous system abnormalities
Hand often numb after getting up in the morning. If the sleeping position is excluded, you should be alert to the disease.
unilateral numbness → Beware of cervical spondylosis
People who have been working at their desks for a long time, sit for a long time, and have poor sitting posture. If they wake up in the morning, they will experience numbness or radiating pain in their palms and arms.
Hand numbness in the middle of the night or in the morning → Beware of Carpal tunnel syndrome
Often numbness in the middle of the night or in the morning, beware of carpal tunnel syndrome, especially office workers, chefs, etc. who often do repeated wrist movements.
Both side numbness → Beware of Diabetes complications
Diabetes Patients with both fingers numb and feel gloves-wearing, and it is not limited to morning and evening, beware of diabetic neuropathy.
Recommendation:
The elderly can supplement vitamin B1 and B6 and vitamin C under the guidance of a doctor to improve the body's metabolic function and relieve symptoms of numbness in hands and feet.
It is best to lie flat when sleeping, and do not press your hands and feet. The height of the pillow is generally 7 to 9 cm, and the softness and hardness should be moderate.
Regularly check blood pressure, blood lipids and do blood rheology examination . If there is hypertension or hyperlipidemia, treat it in time.
head dizziness
Hypertension and otolithia
0When I get up in the morning, I should be wary of abnormal blood pressure and otolithia.
- Patients with hypertension feel dizzy when they wake up, which may be due to hypertension in the early morning, which is more likely to develop cardiovascular and cerebrovascular acute diseases.
- If you get up quickly, sit up quickly, stand up and feel dizzy, accompanied by black eyes or even fainting, you should be alert to orthostatic hypotension .
- If you change the head posture, you will experience obvious dizziness, accompanied by symptoms such as rotation of the visual object, nausea and vomiting. Beware of otolithiasis.
suggestion:
The elderly and patients with hypertension should avoid emotional excitement in the morning, first slowly stretch in bed for about 10 minutes, then slowly get up with your side.
patients who are prone to increase blood pressure in the early morning should use longer-acting antihypertensive drugs under the guidance of a doctor. At the same time, do not do strenuous exercise in the morning, but change the exercise time to the afternoon or evening.
High pressure, excessive fatigue, lowering your head to play with your mobile phone, and being in a bad head position for a long time will aggravate the vasospasm of the inner ear and raise the risk of otolithiasis. These should be avoided as much as possible.
Heel pain
Planet fasciitis
If you get out of bed in the morning, or after resting, your heel suddenly feels like a needle, it will relieve it after walking. When you continue to exercise or stand for a long time, you should be alert to Planet fasciitis.
This is because after a night of rest, the plantar fascia no longer bears weight and will be in a relatively shortened state. When you get out of bed and step on the ground in the morning, it will cause greater pulling to the plantar fascia, which will cause pain.
Recommendation:
People with heel pain should choose shoes with shock absorption function and wear less soft and thin-soled cloth shoes.
If you like to wear flat shoes, you can add an heel pad to achieve the effect of moving the center of gravity forward. You should also pay attention to keeping your feet warm, controlling your weight, and avoid standing or walking for a long time.
You should pay attention to sole muscle exercise in life: practice using toe curling towels and picking up glass balls with your toes; you can also sit down and step on ball-like objects with your feet, roll gently with your soles, and massage and stimulate arch .
3 cough is obvious in the morning
cough variant asthma
cough often coughs in the early morning or at night, beware of cough variant asthma.This type of person has increased sensitivity and coughs when stimulated by cold air, smoke or perfume.
suggestion: Try to avoid irritation of cigarettes and perfume in life. You may as well wear a scarf when it is cold. Inhaled glucocorticoid combined with bronchodilator can be used for treatment under the guidance of a doctor.
Urgent urine abnormal
Kidney problems or stones
The first urine foam in the morning is obvious and lasts for a long time. It may be caused by kidney disease. You should go to the hospital for routine urine tests in time.
It should be noted that foaming in urine may also be caused by physiological factors, such as drinking too little water, sweating too much, diarrhea, fever, strenuous exercise, nervousness, urination too quickly, and standing too high when urinating.
The first time I urinate in the morning, the urine is red and pink, thick brown, and soy sauce. Although the urination becomes normal afterwards, you should also be wary of inflammation, stones and even tumors.
Recommendation:
Try to avoid holding urine in life. Holding urine not only makes the bladder overfilled, but also causes difficulty in urination , urinary retention and renal failure.
Reduce long-term sitting, and men should pay attention to avoid riding bicycles or motorcycles for a long time. Every hour you sit, you should stand up and move your body.
Drinking water is sufficient. Healthy adults should not drink less than 1500 ml of water per day. Try to keep the urine color clear and yellow. ▲
Editor of this issue: Zheng Ronghua
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