• Wear elastic stockings if your legs swell.
• Do the same in pregnancy and in both cases use every opportunity to take the weight off your feet. This greatly helps reduce the swelling.
• Come off the Pill and use another method of contraception.
• Prevent allergies by eliminating foods and other allergens from your diet and surroundings.
• Take vitamin B6. This seems to affect the balance between oestrogen and sodium. Taking 200 mg a day pre-menstrually has been shown to prevent fluid retention. B6 is especially good in pregnancy. Never take more than 200 mg a day.
• Take vitamin Ñ-it seems to enhance the action of vitamin B6. It also has a diuretic effect of its own.
• Drink more water – additional 4-6 glasses a day on top of what you currently drink. This increases the excretion efficiency of the kidneys.
• Take less salt. Some people are exceptionally sensitive to salt and as little as 1 g can produce swelling in them. One large pickled cucumber, for example, contains 2 g salt.
• Eat only complex carbohydrates (as found in fruit, vegetables and whole grains)-no refined ones. Sugar is a major culprit when it comes to water retention, and we consume quantities of sugar without being aware of its presence. Look for anything with the suffix ‘ose’ on the label (fructose, lactose, dextrose, maltose etc) and avoid it.
• Include in your diet natural diuretics, such as pineapple, cucumber, parsley, alfalfa, strawberries, apples, grapes, beetroot and chamomile tea.
• Ensure that you eat plenty of calcium-containing foods, especially if your fluid retention is a part of your pregnancy symptoms, as there is a link between the amount of calcium in the diet and fluid retention during pregnancy.
• Take more exercise. Any exercise that improves the tone of blood vessels will help.
• Try to lie down flat at least once a day for twenty minutes or so, as urine production is increased in the horizontal position.
• Do the same in pregnancy and in both cases use every opportunity to take the weight off your feet. This greatly helps reduce the swelling.
• Prevent allergies by eliminating foods and other allergens from your diet and surroundings.
• Take vitamin B6. This seems to affect the balance between oestrogen and sodium. Taking 200 mg a day pre-menstrually has been shown to prevent fluid retention. B6 is especially good in pregnancy. Never take more than 200 mg a day.
• Take vitamin Ñ-it seems to enhance the action of vitamin B6. It also has a diuretic effect of its own.
• Drink more water – additional 4-6 glasses a day on top of what you currently drink. This increases the excretion efficiency of the kidneys.
• Take less salt. Some people are exceptionally sensitive to salt and as little as 1 g can produce swelling in them. One large pickled cucumber, for example, contains 2 g salt.
• Eat only complex carbohydrates (as found in fruit, vegetables and whole grains)-no refined ones. Sugar is a major culprit when it comes to water retention, and we consume quantities of sugar without being aware of its presence. Look for anything with the suffix ‘ose’ on the label (fructose, lactose, dextrose, maltose etc) and avoid it.
• Include in your diet natural diuretics, such as pineapple, cucumber, parsley, alfalfa, strawberries, apples, grapes, beetroot and chamomile tea.
• Ensure that you eat plenty of calcium-containing foods, especially if your fluid retention is a part of your pregnancy symptoms, as there is a link between the amount of calcium in the diet and fluid retention during pregnancy.
• Take more exercise. Any exercise that improves the tone of blood vessels will help.
• Try to lie down flat at least once a day for twenty minutes or so, as urine production is increased in the horizontal position.
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