Dropsy

Dropsy is not a disease itself, but only an indicator of a disease of some internal organs - the heart, kidneys, liver.

With kidney disease, swelling first appears on the face, then dropsy spreads throughout the body. At the same time, at the beginning of the disease, there is still heaviness near the bladder, urinary retention, and a burning sensation in the bladder.

With heart disease, swelling first appears on the legs and ankles, and then gradually rises upward.

With liver disease, abdominal dropsy appears, which can sometimes reach particularly large sizes.

It is necessary to treat the underlying disease causing swelling, i.e. heart or kidneys, and as soon as swelling is noticed in any place, you must immediately stop consuming a lot of liquid, even water, and not eat salt at all. But consume as many diaphoretic and diuretic vegetables and fruits as possible, such as celery, parsley, asparagus, onions, watermelon, pumpkin, strawberries, black currants, grapes.

Also dairy products, especially sour ones - yogurt, cottage cheese.

Orally from medications as a diuretic, take methenamine 0.3 three times a day.

Home and folk remedies for dropsy, especially abdominal:

1. Drink tea from an infusion of nettle roots. This remedy sometimes quickly stops dropsy, especially if it is caught at the very beginning. You need to finely chop the dried nettle roots, take a teaspoon per glass of boiling water, leave and drink two cups a day.

2. Drink a cup a day of infusion of young juniper stems.

3. Drink two tablespoons of onion juice a day: cut two medium onions into thin slices in the evening, sprinkle with a little sugar, leave overnight so that the onions release their juice. In the morning, squeeze and drink, you can even do it on an empty stomach.

4. Cut off the skin from the turnip, throw away the pulp, and put the skin in a pot, pour boiling water over it, close it tightly and put it in a hot oven for four hours, but do not boil, but simmer. Then strain, squeeze well and drink a cup a day. Approximate portion of the broth: for a glass of turnip skin, 3 cups of boiling water.

5. Burn the stems from ordinary Russian beans on something clean, for example, on a stone board, on an iron sheet, etc., then collect the ash, turn it into powder, sift and store in a glass jar with a ground stopper. Drink 3-4 times a day like this: pour a tablespoon of vodka into a cup, add half a teaspoon of the indicated ash, stir and drink with water, or even better, carrot juice.

6. Black cockroaches. This product is very good. Cockroaches can be taken in two forms: a) dried, crushed into powder and taken three times a day with water; b) take about a teaspoon with the top of dried cockroaches, pour a glass of cold water and leave to infuse for 4-5 days. Then take a tablespoon a day.

7. For dropsy, especially abdominal, a powerful remedy is fasting, carried out systematically, especially from the very beginning of the disease: you need to drink only two glasses of tea a day four times a year for seven days - one glass at 12 noon, and the second glass in the evening, sugarless. And be sure to give an enema of clean water every day during this seven-day period.

Whoever for some reason cannot use the indicated remedies, let him drink two glasses of cucumber pickle a day, which is also useful for dropsy, although it does not act as quickly as other remedies, but it is easier to get.

A tincture of agave leaf and wormwood in water in equal proportions (a teaspoon of the mixture per glass of boiling water) protects against dropsy, expelling watery, painful juices.

A pocket of water or dropsy is a benign tumor located in the subcutaneous fatty tissue. It is quite rare in children. Sometimes the reason to suspect that a child has dropsy is his or her excess weight. In this case, obvious swelling is most often not observed. Redness is often observed on the skin, the skin over the formation is hot and tense. Visually visible is a bright red nodule, ranging in size from a pea to a cherry, delimited by a white-pink rim. Dropsy grows quite quickly, reaching large sizes, 7–15 cm. When they are located on the face, they cause significant cosmetic defects, they also compress nearby vessels and nerves, so the slightest injury when touched causes severe pain.

The formation of dropsy is caused by various etiological factors, of which the first five are divided into endogenous and associated with complications or side effects of therapy, leading to the appearance of extensive hematomas or tissues; the rest are associated with various connective tissue diseases that produce interstitial fluid that supports tumor growth. Often, dropsy is part of genetic syndromes associated with skin manifestations accompanied by tuberous sclerosis, Ehler-Danlos disease (hyperelasticity), congenital heart defects, etc. Doctors distinguish allergic, viral, bacterial or parasitic water pockets. However, not a single scientific work devoted to this particular disease was found. As well as the reasons for the appearance of this phenomenon, there is no absolutely clear information about it. All that exists is folk traditions, stories and myths accumulated by specialists about the causes of its occurrence. This entire basis is unknown to medicine. It is difficult to judge the opinion of some scientists about the possibility of the occurrence of skin formations in the presence of uterine fibroids, for example, since arguments about the formation of the so-called uterine hodgepodge or other external manifestations with an increase in fibroids are limited to the folk experience of our great-grandmothers. At the same time, almost all doctors are unanimous on the issue of the appearance of formations on the genital organs due to breast cancer. Any formations on the mucous membranes, even for no apparent reason, must be examined by doctors not only in a clinical setting, but also through laser therapy and surgical treatment. Doctors do not recommend that people turn to traditional medicine on their own, resort to the help of healers, self-medicate, or try traditional methods on themselves. Even if any neoplasm appears, the diagnosis can only be made by a specialist with the appropriate education.

Dropsy ** Dropsy** (lat. hydrops) is a rare chronic disease manifested by the presence of internal cavities filled with clear or turbid liquid (transudate). Internal fluid can accumulate in any organ or tissue of the body, but most often in the serous cavities and tissues.