What provokes repeated cramps in the legs? How to deal with it?

My husband and my mother both suffered from extreme leg cramps usually at night. Since they have started taking Vitamin E (400 Units) the cramps have stopped. Each just takes 1 Vitamin E capsule in the morning faithfully and neither has had a leg cramp in years.

Potassium shortage could cause it. If you wake up with cramps in your legs, the best thing is to get up and walk around on them. It helps to work out the cramps.

Apart from having a low potassium intake, you need to relax the legs a lot, because poor blood circulation leads to leg cramps as well.

Occasionally walk, when sitting don't sit on your legs or curl them.

I heard magnesium can help cramps. Magnesium helps the absorption of calcium. You can get powdered magnesium and take as needed in till cramps go away. Just heard that lately from a message therapist. Hope that helps.

try doing leg calve stretches against a wall until eventually now mattress.Flex your foot lower back and forth various situations additionally. I even have this problem too and that i'm 19 weeks alongside. additionally at night in mattress in case you flex you foot promptly such as you're status it is going to help do away with the soreness too. wish this helps you is does me.

Might be low in potassium intake, eat some fruits that are high in potassium like bananas, that might help.

Lake of potassium. You need to take vitamins or eat bananas.

i heard you need to drink more milk? but wether its for the calcium (which doesn't make sense to me?) or the vitamin D or...something? the first guy is most likely right though, sounds right-ish...

You need more potassium in your diet

I have an answer but it doesn't meet the guidelines.