Are leg cramps in the middle of the night caused by calcium deficiency?

Have you ever had this experience: after working hard all day, you want to have a good sleep at night, but you are always disturbed by various things. In summer, especially at night, mosquitoes will always fly around your ears, disturbing you from falling asleep. When the weather is cold, if you don't close the windows in the middle of the night, you will sometimes wake up from the cold.

Especially in summer, when the weather is very hot, many friends don't want to close the windows when they go to bed at night. After all, only by opening the windows at night can the indoor temperature be slightly lowered. But I never expected that the night before yesterday, when I was sleeping well, my calf suddenly cramped and it hurt so much that I couldn't fall asleep. When I was sleeping soundly at night, my legs suddenly hurt a lot. When I woke up, I found that I had kicked off the quilt. It was still raining outside. It might be because the weather was cold and my calf got cold, so I had cramps.

When I was young, I always had calf cramps or knee pain. When I was young, the elders in my family would say that it hurt because I was still growing. But now we have grown up, why do we still have calf cramps and knee pain? It can't be that we are still growing, right?

In fact, calf cramps have nothing to do with our growth or calcium deficiency. If you have leg cramps in the middle of the night, first check if your quilt is not covered properly. Although it is still summer, the temperature at night is also very low. If the quilt is not covered properly, and the window is open or the air conditioner is turned on, it is very easy for the calves to get cold. If the calves are exposed to low temperatures for a long time, muscle cramps are very likely to occur. This is why so many people go swimming in the summer and get leg cramps as soon as they get into the water.

Not only that, if you do very intense exercise before going to bed, such as mountain climbing, you may also get calf cramps at night. After all, when you exercise, the calf muscles are in a tense state for a long time, and when you go to bed at night, the calf suddenly relaxes, and this relaxation is very likely to cause calf cramps.

Finally, if it is not because of catching a cold or doing very strenuous exercise before going to bed, then we should consider whether there is something wrong with our body. If our body metabolism is abnormal, the lactic acid in the body will not be able to be decomposed in time. Therefore, the blood flow rate slows down, and sometimes it will cause calf cramps. At this time, we must develop the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, and exercise every day, but don't exercise too much.

Of course, if you have calf cramps and are particularly painful at night, don't panic. First, lift your toes upward and use your hands to pull your legs as close to your body as possible. This can relieve the pain to a great extent in a short time. If you want to relieve leg pain, the most important thing is to do a good job of prevention. Don't kick the quilt when you sleep at night and keep warm. If you do a lot of exercise during the day, you must relax your calf muscles before going to bed.

In short, calf cramps are not entirely due to calcium deficiency, nor are they because you want to grow taller. We must analyze the reasons in time, make corresponding judgments, and then deal with them. In addition, some pregnant women also experience calf cramps during pregnancy. Of course, these are relatively normal phenomena. Especially for those mothers who are calcium deficient, calf cramps are also common. Be sure to keep warm when sleeping at night. After the calf cramps, family members must help mothers to relieve it in time, rub the cramped calf with their hands, and slowly relax it.