If legs are edema.

 I m  having lymphostasis for low extremities, where is finding erysipelas, prescribed antibiotics, which are cured her, but in month she returned without water rashes, but with redness and burning.

Again prescribed antibiotics and diuretics as furosemide, but in lymphostasis legs are strong edema from fingers till knees and both hands, please help me, am disability and 90 y.old.

Unfortunately this is not rare diagnosis, in lymphostatis are meeting legs edemas, heaviness feeling, discomfort, repeat episodes for inflammation for subcutaneous fatty cellulose answers doctor Raskin. Lymphedema is lymphatic system disease, where is lymph outflow destroying, which filling in tissues. Lymph importance playing role in human s organism, and answers for transport for interstitial liquid.And these  destroys leading to edema for  subcutaneous cellulose and destroying  normal skin feeding. Yes, erysipelas curing with antibiotics, and prescribing is right. And by you tests am checked,which you sent me,that  you are having mitral valve failure  and tricuspid , that increasing legs edemas. And here needing curing heart problems and heart failure, thus cure for lymphostasis  will success. And in hard  lymphostasis ,is a cure hard, with apparatus lymph drainage massage, which doing for 1-2 times/day within hour ,with manual moves till lymphatic ducts for emptying and decompression for lymphatic nodules, such procedure returning for extremities a normal  size. After every this séance doing bandaging for damage extremity. A using gauzes for minimal elastic, compensating for pressure falling in tissues. This is importance for therapy, that preventing delaying liquid in tissues of damaging extremity. Apply gauzes for night, and not removing till next séance of manual lymph drainage. And on the ending cure course, when extremity is normal size, for every patient ordering special compression jersey. And before sleep, his removing, but a few patients keeping bandaging with elastic gauzes for night. After bandage applying, adding physical exercises, and they are needing for activating all muscles groups and joints of edema extremities. And patient sleeping, that damaged extremity is keeping on high position as on the level, or slighter higher for heart level, but bandaging is most effectivity.

A doctor will help select bandaging materials, and learn for bandaging base, thus you are needing visiting his. And you will not learn this just by books, or by checking for working are specialists.

And against complications  doctor will take a full anamnesis in patient.If for  lymphostatis accompanies are pathologic conditions as hypertension, paralysis, diabetes, heart failure, bronchial asthma and other, thus needing observing are additional methods for precautions.