Hello night time friends,
Am on holiday in Italy Verona/Garda and am wide awake having had horrible cramps in both legs and both feet. (Had them for the last few days). I'm in a holiday apartment at the moment with nothing in the store cupboard - moving to hotel at Lake Garda on Saturday.
Any advice please?
Thanks
Christine
Cramp is awful. My doctor prescribed quinine sulfate which is brilliant. Interestingly enough I was watching the US Open tennis today and one player was doing really well and then got cramp so was hobbling around. He was given a handful of salt and it seemed to work as he then won with a glitch in the middle. My grandmother used to keep a tomato by her bed and would cover it in salt as a tomato allows you to take a lot of salt. It sounds like an old wive's tale but obviously there is something in it. Some people find magnesium helps.
Thank you Piglette. There's no salt here in the apartment but I ll get some tomorrow.
All your suggestions (even if old wives tales) are excellent)!
Sensible advice and tomatoes are good for you. I eat the small ones like sweets.
Add a cucumber (kept in the fridge wrapped in foil) and eat about 1 inch at a time about 3 times a day, or whenever you feel hunger pangs. Loads of minerals and it also stops you feeling hungry and it cleans mirrors and windows as well.
The cucumber or the tomatoes for the windows??😂😂😂
Oh in the words of a comedian, which I forget (age) 'Oh you are awful' 😄😄
😂🤣👏🏽💜❣️ and cleans mirrors and windows as well!!!
I have an A4 page on Cucumbers, which I reproduced (with permission of course) in a Newsletter many moons ago.................
You can cross the Sahara with a dozen...........now I do not, repeat not, know anyone who would be daft enough to try it........and not me, anything over 20c forget it.
Cramps are no fun at all! I felt the beginnings in both calves...and one foot (although never fully cramped)
I expected the GP to recommend yet another supplement, but instead he suggested a magnesium spray. Its widely available over the counter in all good pharmacies an in larger supermarkets.
I was also told that an Epsom salt soak is also a good way to introduce minerals via the skin!
Hope it's not the heat and/or dehydration causing you cramps...so please stay hydrated in either case.
Enjoy the rest of your holidays.
Thank you Stiffjoints. I'll try the pharmacy here in Verona today.
Love the name. I'm thinking if changing mine to rustyrobotwalk.
Christine
🤣🤣 i hear you!
Please do go to the docs if the cramps continue...just to be on the safe side!
Who will almost certainly suggest magnesium supplements! That's what they do here ...
Most likely! I'm normally okay with supplements...but I actually take 11 pills a day...and at 41 my other half thinks that's a little over zealous...so I am trying to introduce a conscious diet plan incorporating as much as I can through food wherever possible...and supplementing via baths and creams wherever safe and effective...
However...if the pros of supplements outweigh the cons...then hand me.some more pills...what's one more !!!! Lol
...and drink fluids!!! Ounces of Half your body weight a day! If it doesn't ease the leg cramps, you forget cuz you are running to the loo all the time! Counts as steps on fitbit!
🙏🏽 No kidding...drink fluids💃🏼
Magnesium spray works well for me, if you can find it where you are.
Too much walking Christine?😀
Love Verona and Gardasee - used to go quite a lot till old age stopped us.😟 Enjoy!
Hi Oxford
Sorry to hear your having issues especially on your holiday!
Best Wishes
Get Well Soon
MrsN 🌷
Quinine is a key component of tonic water - might help
I was staggered to read in a magazine this week, that you have to drink about 300 gin and tonics per day to get enough quinine a day or 150 bottles of tonic. Me, I would choose gin.............🍸 I think. 🤔🤔
Keep the gin...which Helps all things bad 😁
Pickle juice....wouldn't fancy it but saw someone use it and it was a miracle cure!
Aaargh! X
Lots of water - dehydration can cause cramps. And some salt.
bananas. Do you have powerade zero there? it has magnesium and potassium which can help. pickles as well for the sodium. these are things we recommend to our weight loss clients who end up with muscle cramping during their detox phase.
Thanjs. Got Magnesium/potassium l. Cramps gone. Thank you everyone. 👍🌷👍
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