If I get cold or my legs just chill, my lower abdomen immediately starts to hurt and a strange discomfort appears. Whitish discharge and burning, which are relieved by keeping the feet in hot water and putting on socks.
I tried to temper myself and wandered around cold water sea, but it seems to me that nothing helped. What are the symptoms of cystitis in women, is it different from the chronic one?
What symptoms should you look out for first?
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I have had cystitis several times. But it is called chronic only if you get sick of it constantly every winter or even several times a year.
My cystitis begins with heaviness in the lower abdomen and then pain when urinating, frequent urge to use the toilet. But my cystitis cannot be cured with warm socks or a hot bath - it's rather just an inflammation. I have always been treated with medicines from the pharmacy + folk remedies and drink a lot.
Once I had to have had cystitis, it can be said to be a common cold of the genitals, if it is properly treated with medicines, and not with warm baths, then it will not be chronic.
If a woman has had cystitis at least once, then at the slightest hypothermia, symptoms and illness return. Cystitis must be well treated, and in the future, take care of your health.
You need to visit a good competent urologist - he will direct you to research, all kinds of analyzes and give general preliminary recommendations first. You may also need to visit a gynecologist. After that, when the picture becomes clear, they will prescribe treatment and talk about prevention. Chronic cystitis, alas, requires careful observation.
Oh, and I was tormented at one time with this case. The first symptom is a burning sensation during urination, and God forbid that there is just a burning sensation without admixture of blood! It even came to me. My first salvation is a heating pad between my legs, once my mother-in-law advised me, thank you very much! After that, this is my first method to eliminate discomfort!
The first symptoms are frequent urination. Unfortunately, most women have a clear predisposition to cystitis, so you need to constantly protect yourself from hypothermia, and not walk in cold water, thereby simply provoking another relapse. It is advisable to stabilize your diet, give up spicy and fatty foods, and also not abuse alcoholic beverages.
Cystitis is usually quite painful, with frequent urination, burning and sharp pain after emptying, with a constant feeling of fullness of the bladder, low body temperature, sometimes even with blood and mucus in the urine. For me, he needs to be treated by a urologist + gynecologist, just warm socks and hot water will not cure him. It is necessary to pass general tests and according to Nechiporenko, ultrasound is sometimes prescribed. You are more likely to have hypothermia.
I think the author does not have cystitis, but problems like a woman, be sure to show yourself to a gynecologist. Cystitis is a very painful condition, it cannot be confused with anything, it is characterized primarily by frequent urination with pain, and stabbing and cutting pains in the bladder can be felt. By itself, cystitis never goes away, only medicines, the treatment is prescribed by the urologist, you cannot not treat it - otherwise the infection from the bladder will rise to the kidneys or acute illness will turn into a chronic form, the same happens if cystitis is treated incorrectly or not completed. To make a diagnosis, it is enough to pass general analysis urine.
And my cystitis is painless, maybe because, as soon as I notice that I began to run to the toilet often, I immediately start drinking kidney tea. After a day or two, this unpleasant symptom disappears. My legs are also constantly freezing, this is due to poor patency of the vessels of the lower extremities. And the lower abdomen, as a rule, hurts due to inflammation of the female organs. So, first of all, it is worth visiting a gynecologist, and for prevention you can drink a renal herbal collection "Nephrophyt"
Indeed, whitish discharge can be with inflammation of the appendages or walls of the vagina after hypothermia. Then the chamomile baths will help and, of course, a consultation with a gynecologist.
This discharge is an alarming symptom. And here you cannot do with home remedies. You may need serious medication or complex treatment. An urgent appointment with a gynecologist. There is a serious health hazard.
In this state, it is hardly useful for you to walk barefoot in cold water. If discomfort and burning are also accompanied by frequent urination, then these are symptoms of cystitis, and during exacerbations, for example, Cyston can help you. In general, in combination with discharge, this may be associated with gynecology. In this case, it is generally harmful for you to overcool and keep your feet in cold water.
Your symptoms are not cystitis, but rather thrush or another chronic gynecological problem. It would be necessary to get tested, not to overcool, to rest more.
At the first signs of the onset of cystitis, it is a slight coldness in the legs and urinary discomfort. Take off pain - this is a warm bottle between the legs, anesthetic, or better an injection of baralgin, the pain relieves faster. I have cystitis at the age of 18, and now I'm 46. I'm saving myself, it's especially hard when an aggravation in summer is hot to lie with a hot bottle between my legs.
Check with your doctor, your symptoms are not very similar to cystitis. This sore develops very rapidly and warming up the legs would not help you. Cystitis is treated with pills, for the prevention of mono it will burrow well on the sand at the sea.
Cystitis can occur with hypothermia of the body, with prolonged sitting position, if you eat a lot of spicy, spicy food, if there are foci of infection in the body, if there are any other chronic inflammatory diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to undergo an examination, and then draw conclusions and prescribe treatment.
You have clear signs chronic illness... Only not urological, but gynecological. The main symptoms of cystitis are frequent, painful urination. White discharge and discharge in general, of any nature, is the work of the pathogenic microflora of the vagina and other genital organs. Contact your gynecologist with your problem and take the necessary tests.
Hello. I myself am familiar with this problem - I have chronic cystitis. Everything is the same with you. One has only to slightly overcool the limbs - that's all, I want to go to the toilet often and painfully. I was treated, the pills relieve pain, but they do not cure completely, and if you do not freeze in your legs, then not everything is so bad! And yes, check your kidneys. Perhaps the sand is just coming out?
“As a preventive measure, it is also good to drink the Italian drug Monurel. It is created on the basis of cranberry extract and contains proanthocyanins, which prevent E. coli from fixing on the walls of the bladder. And this is just the most common reason the occurrence of a chronic disease.
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I was diagnosed with chronic cystitis 5 years ago, suffered pains in the lower abdomen, very painful urination. Warming up helped me: I heated a brick on the stove, put it in a metal bucket, sat on this bucket and wrapped myself in a blanket. I sat there until the brick had cooled completely, but I still had to go to the doctor.
Since the cystitis bacterium attaches to the walls of the bladder, antibiotics alone (even fosfomycin) cannot cure it. A full complex treatment is needed, including antibiotics and herbal preparations. Today the leading drug, which is even included in the European and American recommendations for the treatment of cystitis, is Monurel. It on cranberry extract completely removes the infection from the body and prevents its recurrence.
I agree with you, a good natural preparation. As a prophylaxis of cystitis, the first remedy. And during treatment it gives excellent results, especially in combination with antibiotics.
For many years I have suffered from chronic cystitis, I tried a lot of things, both from drugs, and from berry fruit drinks, and herbal decoctions. But they must be drunk in large quantities and time is needed. to do it all. The doctor advised me to take Uroprofit, and in advance, without waiting for the next symptoms. It turned out to be very effective, such prophylaxis has helped me to live without cystitis symptoms for almost a year. And of course - intimate hygiene (very thorough), do not get cold, and by the way, diet is also important - less salinity, smoked meats (by the way, this is useful for everyone, not only for those with bladder problems).
The fact that with hypothermia symptoms of cystitis appear indicates the presence of microbes in your body. With a decrease in immunity, the growth of immune cells slows down, which contributes to the further multiplication of microorganisms.
You don't need to temper yourself, wander in cold water, etc. In case of recurrent symptoms, you should consult a urologist. The doctor will prescribe laboratory tests, after which he will make a diagnosis.
In the case of cystitis, you need to act clearly and ruthlessly treated with antibiotics. Be sure to get tested for antibiotic susceptibility. To know specifically to which group your microorganisms are susceptible, and not to point your finger to the sky. If you treat cystitis correctly and painstakingly, there will be no relapses that can poison your life systematically.
And I did not initially treat cystitis correctly, and it turned into a chronic one. Now from time to time there are exacerbations, but much less often. And all because I started taking cranberries and bearberry, and they have anti-inflammatory, diuretic, and antimicrobial effects. I also took horsetail, and he relieves pain and pain in the lower abdomen quite well. Naturally, all these components were taken not in the form of decoctions, but in the form of capsules - Uroprofit are called. Also in the composition of this complex, in addition to the components that I indicated above, there is vitamin C.
How does a cold develop?
Many of us have faced this - we caught a cold (cold) feet, and the next day the symptoms of a cold manifest themselves - a sore throat, fever, runny nose and cough worries.
Along with ARVI, hypothermia also often causes cystitis, nephritis and other inflammatory diseases of the genitourinary system. However, some people are more likely to suffer from respiratory infectionsand others - from genitourinary.
What is the reason for this? We can say that in each person a certain organ is most vulnerable - the kidneys, tonsils, nasal sinuses, etc. And this is due not only to the individual characteristics of the organism, but also to the history of diseases in the past. It is possible that a person has a focus of chronic infection in a particular organ.
Each hypothermia provokes in this case an exacerbation of the infectious process, and nephritis, sinusitis, tonsillitis, etc., begin to disturb.
Why is cooling feet dangerous?
Why is it the hypothermia of the legs that people consider so dangerous? In fact, this popular belief is far from the truth. Obviously, hypothermia of the trunk, for example, the region of the heart, waist, lungs, is much more dangerous than hypothermia of the legs.
It is not surprising that it is the lower extremities of mammals, that is, the legs of humans, that are best adapted to withstand frost and wind, because they almost constantly come into contact with a cold surface. But for the same reason, it is easiest to catch a cold on your feet - it is unlikely that you will wet your neck or chest area in the cold, but entering a puddle in winter is as easy as shelling pears.
Thus, cold feet are not the most dangerous, but simply the most common hypothermia.
Pain in the legs with a cold
Many people complain that their legs hurt when they have a cold. With what it can be connected?
In most cases, pain in muscles and joints is caused by intoxication - poisoning of the body with the products of the vital activity of the virus. It is because of intoxication with ARVI that symptoms such as headache, joint aches, muscle pain, fever, etc. A particularly pronounced intoxication syndrome is observed with influenza, but it is characteristic to one degree or another for all acute respiratory viral infections.
What causes pain in muscles and joints with a cold? Scientists believe that viral infection disrupts metabolism in tissues. At the same time, substances accumulate in the cells, which should normally be utilized. So, with ARVI, lactate, ammonia and other toxic waste products accumulate in the muscles. They are annoying nerve endingsdamage to muscle fibers.
The consequences of this can be observed within 10-14 days. That is why some people have pain in their legs after a cold for some time - muscles ache, their weakness is observed, joints ache, although other symptoms of the disease no longer bother.
Thus, pain in the legs during ARVI does not mean that a person has a cold in his feet - it means that the whole body is suffering from a viral infection.
Inflammation of the nerves of the legs
So is it possible to get a cold leg (s)? If we are talking about pain in muscles and joints associated with severe hypothermia, you can answer positively. In this case, a cold of the feet means inflammation of the nerves or muscle tissue as a result 
impact low temperatures... In this case, myositis (inflammation of the muscles) is usually associated with spasm, and neuritis (inflammation of a nerve) can be caused by infection, ischemia, muscle spasm, and even injury.
How to understand that a nerve in your leg has caught a cold? The following symptoms will help in diagnosis:
- muscle pain;
- numbness of the leg;
- decreased sensitivity of the skin surface on the affected limb;
- decreased muscle strength;
- cyanosis of the skin;
- dryness and peeling of the skin (since metabolic processes are disrupted).
it general symptomscharacteristic of inflammation of any nerve. Specific symptoms that help diagnose the type of neuritis depend on the localization of the inflammation focus:
- with neuritis sciatic nerve pain in the gluteal muscles increases with lifting a straight leg, squatting;
- with neuritis of the femoral nerve, the knee reflex is disturbed, the front surface of the thigh grows numb, there is severe pain when the knees are extended and the leg is bent in the hip joint;
- if you are concerned about pain in the legs and lower back, weakness of the lower extremities, a violation of the sensitivity of the skin, it is possible that there is plexitis of the lumbosacral region (neuritis of a group of nerves).
In addition, for the diagnosis, it is necessary to undergo some examinations - electroneurography, examination by a neurologist, reflex tests.
Treatment for a cold nerve is directed at the cause of the disease. With infectious neuritis, antibiotics and antiviral drugs are prescribed. If neuritis is associated with ischemia, treatment includes vasodilator drugs.
Therapy also includes drugs that relieve symptoms of the disease. So, without fail, drugs are prescribed to relieve swelling, anti-inflammatory drugs, pain relievers. At the stage of recovery (after 7-10 days of treatment), they resort to physiotherapeutic procedures. Phonophoresis, UHF, massage, physiotherapy exercises, electrical stimulation give a good effect. All this helps the nerves and muscles to restore their previous strength and activity.
Cystitis is a fairly common infectious disease, the provocateur of which is also cold. Cystitis is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bladder. It is very simple to get cystitis - you have a cold on your feet, and after a couple of days you have a whole bunch of its manifestations. Among the symptoms of cystitis are:
- frequent urination (in severe cases, a person goes to the toilet every 20 minutes);
- severe pain in the perineum and lower abdomen;
- pain when urinating;
- excretion of a small amount of blood in the urine;
- body temperature may also be elevated;
- general weakness, headache.
It is known that women suffer from cystitis much more often than men. This is due to the fact that the urethra of women is much shorter, that is, it is much easier for bacteria to penetrate from the surface of the skin into the bladder. In addition, in women, the urethra is located in close proximity to the anus, which increases the risk of E. coli (it is known that it is this microorganism in most cases that is responsible for the development of inflammatory processes in the urogenital organs). All this leads to the fact that the woman has a slight cold in her legs, and her lower abdomen already hurts and other symptoms of cystitis are observed.
If you suspect you have inflammation of the bladder, see your doctor - the condition can become chronic. In addition, its symptoms can be confused with symptoms of inflammation of the kidneys or uterine appendages in women.
Treatment of cystitis includes antibiotic therapy and herbal remedies (Urolesan, etc.). In addition, the patient must comply with bed rest, avoid irritating food (spicy, salty), drink plenty of water.
What to do if your feet are frozen?
What to do if your feet are cold? In this article, we told you that hypothermia can lead to the most unpleasant consequences for your health. This is why start your cold prevention measures as soon as you get home. Take a hot foot bath, shower, inhale with saline and essential oils, and sip on sweet berry or herbal tea. It would be appropriate to accept antiviral drug, for example, based on interferon.
If you do catch a cold, provide your body with normal conditions to fight off the illness. As you know, "a cold on the feet" does not lead to anything good - you run the risk of complications, delaying the healing process, the transition of the disease into a chronic form.
We talk with Tatyana Vladimirovna Kuznetsova, Director General of the Moscow Medical Women's Center, about how a woman can protect herself from inflammatory diseases of the genital tract in the fall.
- Tatyana Vladimirovna, there is an opinion that inflammation of the uterine appendages provokes cold and it is in the fall and winter that women are more susceptible to this disease. Is it really?
This is a misconception. The fact is that inflammation of the appendages occurs only when an infection is already present in the body. If there is no infection, then the inflammatory process will not occur. Cooling can play a provoking role, but at the same time exacerbate an existing chronic or acquired disease. Unfortunately, genital infection is very common today. In our Center, there are rarely patients who, according to the test results, have a normal physiological flora in the body - basically every woman has one, or even several infections at once.
- Are these infections transmitted only through sexual contact?
Not necessarily, everyday methods of their distribution are also possible. You can get infected anywhere, especially after a summer vacation, swimming in reservoirs, when visiting a bath. So, if, after swimming in a lake or river, you do not change into a dry swimsuit, and return home, do not take a shower, then if there was an untreated chronic infection in the body, it will immediately declare itself with pain, malaise, and sometimes fever.
It is dangerous that there are a lot of infections, ranging from seemingly harmless thrush - it causes serious changes in the body with a long course - to chlamydia, staphylococcal and streptococcal infections.
But sometimes their symptoms coincide with signs of completely different diseases. Severe pain, periodically appearing during menstruation, often indicate a very common today, a serious disease - endometriosis. The reasons for its exacerbation can be the fact that girls during menstruation continue to engage in physical education at school, women - to lift weights and, which is already completely unacceptable - to have sex. Therefore, every woman should visit a gynecologist at least once every six months, do the necessary tests and make sure that everything is in order with her health.
- Many women in winter do not pay attention to pain in the lower abdomen. It is believed that this is a small cold, it will go away by itself ...
This is incorrect reasoning. If a woman has not given birth, any inflammation of the uterine appendages, any exacerbation of inflammatory processes can lead to an adhesive process. And as a result - to tubal infertility, when the pipes become impassable.
- Will warm clothes in the offseason save you from inflammation of the appendages?
Warm clothing in itself is not a panacea, because it is infection... But. Of course, with the onset of cold weather, you must immediately switch to seasonal clothing and shoes. On our streets, in late autumn, you can observe girls and young women in thin, out of season, tights, light raincoats, short jackets. This is a potential risk group, because most likely have some kind of untreated infection.
- But, you see, in chilly weather it is no wonder to freeze, catch a cold, and being warmly dressed. Is it possible in such cases to take antibiotics or hot baths as a preventive measure?
First of all, of course, one must try not to overcool. If you got your feet wet through, got very cold, for example, at a bus stop waiting for transport, sat on a stone slab, then at home you need to warm your feet well. You can sit on the edge of the tub, turn on a hot shower, and water your feet. Then you need to pay attention to the onset of menstruation: not the same as usual, more abundant and prolonged, it may indicate the development inflammatory process in the genitals. But more often gynecologists deal with an exacerbation of an inflammatory process that a woman already has, and this suggests that a woman's body already has a sluggish infection that either proceeded unnoticed or was not healed earlier. As far as antibiotics are concerned, I do not recommend taking them without a doctor's recommendation. The fact is that the causative agents of some infections are simply insensitive to antibiotics, and only a doctor can determine which type of pathogen led to an exacerbation of the disease.
- Tatyana Vladimirovna, it turns out that much in the prevention of diseases depends on the woman herself?
Modern medicine can make a woman healthy. But she herself does not need to run herself: she needs to observe hygiene, monitor nutrition, play sports, lead a normal life, including a sexual one, visit a gynecologist on time - and many health problems can be avoided. And if you look in the mirror more often, apply light makeup - you will be satisfied with yourself. Love yourself.