Home remedies · Everyday life & travel
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Get up every hour or at least circle the feet and tense the calves, drink plenty, no tight bands.
The calf muscle is the pump of the leg veins. When it stands still, so does the blood — that is exactly the risk on long journeys.
It does not replace compression stockings with raised risk.
After a long journey: a one-sided swollen, warm, painful leg, or sudden breathlessness and chest pain, is an emergency — the same day, not the next.
Have it assessed: heat with confusion, dry hot skin or clouded consciousness — that is more than exhaustion. A one-sided swollen leg after a long journey. And anything new that does not go away within a few days.