Night cramps - remedy

Top up with multi-vitamins !

(indian)Tonic water. Buy it in any supermarket or off licence.
I used to favour sugar free ad lime flavoured, cos its horrible.
It contains quinine, which is the best cure for cramps and which the doc would give you in tablet form.

You don't need gallons of it. Just the odd glass.

Wheat is cramping you muscles, it causes inflammation, don't eat carby foods, esp bread.
Stop consuming so much weight and it will go, I used to suffer from this badly particularly around the shoulders area and my thighs, terrible pain, went away when I changed diet, still occasionally consume refined wheaty foods but nowhere near as much.

I'm not a sports nutritionist's but that's just my experience.

I like bread though !

So do I, but not as much as I like a good nights sleeps, good night

GN

don't like multi vitamins? rocks, will take your advice and seek out
foods with magnesium.

Since I had a triple heart bypass and stents the excruciatingly painful leg cramps I
used to suffer from have vanished ...

...bit drastic.

Think I will stick with the tonic water.

Drinking alcohol is the culprit in many cases. Alcohol dehydrates you and depletes your electrolytes preventing your muscles from functioning correctly (it says here.) 

Yet telling someone to stop drinking isn't going to work. So they should take calcium and magnesium before they retire.
If that doesn't do the trick, take potassium as well.

On the odd occasions that I drink these days, I down plenty of water before I go to bed, that works for me as well.   



The doctor prescribed quinine

If you get cramps during exercise, you can get supplements containing the minerals above which are intended specifically to replace depleted electrolytes.

A banana contains about a tenth of your daily potassium needs.
Which is far more potassium than you'd get in a tablet.

Aug 8, 2017 -- 3:22AM, Breedingmad wrote:

Since I had a triple heart bypass and stents the excruciatingly painful leg cramps Iused to suffer from have vanished ...

I thought you were a younger poster....what age are you ?

Yes I thought he was a child as well.

28-35 ....I was guessing

eat more tinned tomatoes, used on the greyhounds to prevent cramps

instant remedy if you still get, them,bare feet on cold tiled floor bathroom,kitchen,agony when I get them muscels go hard as steel

We don't have to believe anything we read on here.

Yes 1tp I've heard that one before.

bloody mary wiv touch of tonic on the bathroom floor should just about cover it,