Itching and burning sensations on the feet from the knee to the toes of the foot: causes and treatment

Discomfort in the legs is felt in people over 40 years old quite often. From fatigue and heaviness in the legs, as well as itching, redness and burning, women most often suffer.

If the symptoms are caused by fatigue from a long standing on your feet or wearing shoes with high heels, then after rest everything goes by itself. If discomfort is felt often and even at night, then this is a sign of a serious illness.

There are many reasons for such unpleasant symptoms. You should consider all the possible processes in the body.

"Temporary" causes

The causes of itching and burning not related to the diseases include:

• bearing of the child;
• uncomfortable shoes;
• reaction to synthetic linen;
• alcohol abuse;
• uncomfortable posture while sleeping;
• strong load on the legs while standing;
• appearance on the feet of corns and spurs.

The phlebological side of the

issue If tweaking occurs in the area below the knee, this may indicate the development of a serious disease, one of the main causes of is varicose veins.

Unpleasant symptoms are caused by insufficient supply of oxygen and nutrients to the affected area. The skin in this place becomes dry, darkens and flakes, and therefore there is an itch.

The affected skin can not be combed, as a wound can be formed, which in case of a complication in a trophic ulcer is transformed, it will be difficult to heal.

The main phlebological causes of pain, burning and itching in the legs are associated with the following pathologies of the vascular system:

1. Thrombophlebitis is an inflammatory disease of the walls of blood vessels and the formation of a thrombus in it. An impetus to the development of pathology can be trauma, a change in the composition of the blood, an infection. The foot swells, the skin turns red, the body temperature rises.
2. Varicose veins - there is a thickening and lengthening of the superficial veins with their deformation. The causes of varicose include heredity, changes in the hormonal background, obesity and other factors. Burning in this case often occurs in the evening, accompanied by heaviness in the legs, swelling and convulsions.
3. Atherosclerosis of vessels - narrowing of vessels due to the formation of atherosclerotic plaques, which reduce the blood supply of the legs. Together with burning and itching, numbness of the fingers, chilliness in the feet, skin on the legs becomes pale.
4. Obliterating endarteritis - inflammation of the arteries on the legs, provoking their constriction. The main cause of the disease is autoimmune processes. Initial manifestations of the disease: burning in the calves, fatigue of the legs and the feeling of crawling flies.

"Unusual" causes of

Several unusual, not first glance, causes of unpleasant symptoms in the lower limbs:

• diseases of the nervous system ( inflammation of the nervous tissue, trauma, toxic poisoning);
• bone system damage - can provoke compression of the nerve end;
• is an allergy or skin disease ( dermatitis, fungal infection);
• disruption of endocrine system function ( diabetes mellitus).

Between us, the women

If you separately consider the features of burning and itching on the legs in women, you can highlight the overestimated statistical indicators - in the fairer sex, such problems develop 2 times more often than men.

Blame for all frequent hormonal disorders due to critical days and possible pregnancy. Also highlight the desire of girls to walk on high heels. This leads to an increase in pressure on the vessels, resulting in the development of varicose veins, atherosclerosis and other serious pathologies.

Burning, sensation of heat, tingling and itching in the legs during pregnancy is common, and that's why:

1. Firstly, , the load on the legs increases, which is comparable to the long wearing of high-heeled shoes.
2. Secondly, , the vessels of the legs of a woman during pregnancy pass more blood through themselves - the blood circulates faster during pregnancy.
3. Thirdly, , the cause of unpleasant symptoms may be gestosis - a vascular disease of pregnant women, characterized by increased arterial pressure and swelling of the extremities. Due to high arterial pressure and edema, the vessels undergo an even greater load. As a result, they expand, the tone of the walls decreases, varicose and other pathologies develop.

A few words about babies

Symptomatics in the form of burning and itching of the lower extremities in children speaks of the present congenital anomaly of the peripheral vascular system, which in medicine is called angiodysplasia.

Initially, parents may notice characteristic vascular networks, which later protrude veins. In the absence of timely treatment, the anomaly provokes anatomical functional disorders of the limbs.

The cause of the disease is often intrauterine disorders of embryonic veins due to the influence of unfavorable factors.

How symptomatic is injected

At the very beginning of a vascular disease a person feels a slight tingling, reminiscent of injections in the nerve endings of the skin.

As a rule, after a short rest, the symptomatology presented must pass, but in the case of an already developed pathology, tingling gives way to a feeling of warmth along the whole surface of the leg - from the knee to the fingertips.

Heat gradually turns into a burning sensation - it speaks already of the expansion of the walls of blood vessels and veins. When the symptoms are removed, the patient feels an itch - this is due to the removal of excess blood and the narrowing of the walls to the initial healthy state.

If patients often experience heat influx and subsequent burning sensation in the foot to the tips of the foot - this indicates the development of flat feet.

Often, if the cause of the development of vascular disease is a prolonged stay on the legs or the preference of high heels, the formation of flat feet is entirely acceptable.

Here it is possible to allocate pathologies and destructive processes in the field of a knee joint.

What can I do at home?

In the absence of contraindications and acute symptoms, it is possible to resort to the elimination of burning and pathological heat inflow to the legs at home.

Medical aid to the legs

The most effective remedies that are relevant for such symptoms:

• heparin-based - have a resolving effect than contribute to the prevention of inflammation of the skin and pain relief - Lyoton 1000, Dolobene, Heparin ointment;
• compounds with natural components , substitutes for folk medicine with a high concentration of useful substances - Venitan, Troxevasin, - promote vascular strengthening;
• non-steroid preparations - recommended if discomfort in the legs is caused by the initial stage of thrombophlebitis - Voltaren, Fastum-gel;
• based on hormones, anti-inflammatory compounds - Sinaflane, Flucinar;
• phlebotonics and blood-thinning drugs for improving blood microcirculation, prevention of edema - Fleobodia 600, Detralex, Venolife, Aspirin.

Folk remedies

Among the folk recipes can be identified as follows:

1. Rubbing apple cider vinegar - after each bath, simply rub the affected area with apple cider vinegar.
2. Gadgets made of blue and white clay - purchase a loose component in the pharmacy and dilute it according to the instructions. Apply the composition after showering on the affected area and wrap it with food film. Soak for 1.5 hours and rinse with cool water.
3. Tincture of acacia flowers - used for grinding and compresses.100 g of flowers have a bottle of vodka. The ingredients are mixed and insisted for 3 weeks in a dark place. Then tincture filter and rub the entire surface of the legs.

If the sensation of burning and itching after rest does not pass, you need to use the bath. A small amount of cool water is added to the tub with the addition of apple cider vinegar - 1 liter of water.l.vinegar.

It should be kept in the bath for half an hour. If discomfort does not leave, you need to urgently consult a doctor - this may be the first symptomatology of impaired blood outflow.

The first steps in the hospital

If a person seeks a doctor with complaints of burning and tingling in his legs, he is usually recommended to undergo the following examination procedures:

• visual inspection from the phlebologist - the doctor will assess the condition of the capillaries and veins on the legs at the time of treatment;
• duplex scanning - allows to assess the patency of veins and their expansion at the moment;
• contrast venography - allows to assess the condition of veins, to detect thrombi and inflammation.

Specialists of other profiles may be additionally involved, if there is a suspicion that the discomfort is not caused by phlebological problems.

Assistance of

Doctors As a rule, when there is discomfort in the legs, people do not run to see a doctor. And in vain, because such symptoms may indicate the presence of sclerotic plaques and blood clots, which often becomes the cause of death.

To help doctors should resort immediately if there is numbness in the leg, severe pain, lack of mobility of the lower limbs, and dizziness, with headaches, nausea and vomiting, pain in the heart.

If you identify the above signs, doctors will conduct a full examination. In the case of detection of dangerous formations for human life, an operation is immediately performed.

Surgical intervention is also carried out due to:

• started trophic changes on the skin;
• presence of thrombi;
• of extensive varicose veins;
• violations of blood outflow.

Violation of the outflow of blood often causes a heart attack, stroke and other serious lesions of organs and the body as a whole.

Keep an eye on the young

To keep your feet healthy and strong, use the following guidelines:

• discard bad habits;
• discard high heels and uncomfortable shoes;
• try to walk more and just stand in one place;
• lead an active lifestyle, replacing a comfortable sofa for walks in the park;
• take a complex of vitamins;
• use folk recipes to eliminate swelling;
• use the drugs listed above for the prevention of vascular diseases;
• do not go to baths and saunas;
• every time after showering, water your feet with cool water.

The implementation of these recommendations will help to avoid unpleasant and quite dangerous diseases, as well as their consequences.