What Causes Swollen Hands in the Morning?

Because the causes of swollen hands and fingers in the morning can vary, it’s important to understand the exact cause of the swelling before considering what kind of treatment to seek. Causes can include:

1. Dehydration: The most common cause for swollen hands when you wake up in the morning is fluid retention. If you don’t drink enough water each day, your body can go into dehydration mode when you sleep. What that means is the body holds onto the fluids; as a result, your hands and fingers, and in some cases, your feet swell because of water retention.

2. Sleep posture: How you sleep can lead to swollen hands and fingers in the morning. If you toss and turn when you sleep it’s possible that you could bend your wrist and cause swelling.

3. Arthritis: Swelling related to arthritis is caused by inflammation of the joints. The swelling and stiffness due to arthritis can last for a few hours after you wake up; it tends to affect the smaller joints, like those in your hands.

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of arthritis that causes the finger joints to swell. Psoriatic arthritis causes swelling in the fingers and joints while osteoarthritis develops when the cartilage between your finger joints degenerates. Cervical or neck spondylosis is a form of arthritis that affects the neck, but, it can creep into the fingers.

4. High sodium diet: A poor diet high in sodium can lead to swollen hands and fingers in the morning. When you eat foods with high levels of sodium (deep fried, processed foods, sauces, dressings) or don’t eat enough healthy foods, your body retains water.

5. Kidney issues: Your kidney and liver can cause your hands and joints to swell in the mornings. Both of these organs are responsible for filtering fluids in your body. If either or both organs are not functioning properly, water can build up in the body and accumulate in your hands and feet.

6. Allergies: If you have allergies, it’s quite possible that you can come into contact with something that causes a reaction in your body, resulting in swollen hands and fingers in the morning.

For example, angioedema or angioneurotic edema is a skin condition characterized by swelling beneath the surface of the skin and is often caused by an allergic reaction. While it typically affects the underlying skin layers of the eyes, ears, and lips, it can also affect the fingers.

7. Pregnancy: If you are pregnant you might wake up in the morning with swollen hands, fingers and feet. There are a number of reasons why this happens. During pregnancy, your body produces around 50% more blood and other body fluids to help your baby grow. And around 25% of your pregnancy weight comes from fluid retention. And some of that extra fluid is going to go to your hands and feet.

8. Activity or inactivity: If you constantly use your hands in strenuous activities at work, or exercise, or other repetitive motions, your hands and fingers could swell due to bad circulation. At the same time, because you are inactive while you sleep, it’s possible your hands could feel swollen in the morning from blood being pushed to the hands.

9. Infections: Infections like paronychia, a skin condition of the fingernails, cellulitis, a bacterial skin infection, and osteomyelitis, a bone disease, can also cause swelling in the hands and fingers as your immune system tries to fight the infections.

Symptoms of Swollen Hands in the Morning

There are at least 40 conditions associated with swollen hands in the morning, stiffness, numbness or tingling. The most obvious symptom of swollen hands and fingers in the morning is of course…having swollen hands and fingers. But there are other symptoms you need to be aware of:

• Pain: Pain from swollen hands and fingers in the morning can be constant or it can come and go. Your hands and fingers can experience pain if you’re at rest. You might also feel pain in one part of your hands and fingers or all over.

• Stiffness: Stiffness is a classic symptom of swollen hands and fingers when you wake up.

• Difficulty moving a joint: Your hands and fingers shouldn’t be in pain when you wake up. And it shouldn’t hurt to climb out of bed.

Treatment for Swollen Hands in the Morning

Regardless of what causes your swollen hands and fingers in the morning when you wake up, there are a number of things you can do to wave goodbye to the pain.

• Raise your hands above your head for 3.5 minutes
• Give yourself a hand massage or better yet, have someone else do it for you
• Perform hand exercises to get your muscles moving
• Ice your hands, it reduces swelling
• Drink lots of water during the day
• Reduce the amount of alcohol you drink
• Avoid salty and processed foods
• Exercise daily
• Ask your health practitioner about anti-inflammatories

Understand the Causes of Your Swollen Hands

Waking up with swollen hands and fingers in the morning can be frustrating. The more you understand the causes of your swollen hands the better you’ll be able to take steps to ease the symptoms.

Keep a journal of your symptoms; make a note of what parts of your hand are swollen, when, and for how long. The more your health practitioner knows, the more they will understand the type and extent of your issue.

Tips For Swollen Feet

Are your feet swollen too?

If so, here are some helpful articles:

6 Tips for Relieving Edema and Water Weight

5 Powerful Anti-Inflammatory Drinks for Relieving Edema 

Common Causes of Foot Pain and Natural Solutions

Is Vitamin B17 The Greatest Cover Up In History?

Alanna Ketler.

It has been becoming increasingly apparent in recent years that there are a number of alternative cancer treatment methods which have proven to either eradicate cancer cells on their own, or even assist with the more traditional methods of chemotherapy and radiation. Many of these alternative treatments do not get the recognition that they deserve from either mainstream media or mainstream medicine. In fact, in many states alternative cancer treatments have been banned or made illegal and, according to the law, one can even be forced to undergo chemotherapy against one’s will. It is important to note, however, that choosing one of these natural, alternative cancer treatments does require you to do a lot of research, because there is very little funding, or merit, allotted to their study. The cancer industry does not want to look at these alternative methods and spends very little of their funds informing people about preventative medicine. In fact, one particular vitamin that is believed to be extremely beneficial in fighting cancer cells has actually been banned by the FDA and is illegal for treatment in the United States, and that is Laetrile.

Laetrile contains one of the greatest concentrations of vitamin B-17 on the planet, and it can be found in the often-overlooked seed of a popular fruit: the apricot. Apricot seeds can be found beneath the hard pit inside the apricot, and many people are unaware that they are both edible and delicious, and that they contain a cancer-fighting agent called amygdalin within.

Amygdalin contains glucose, benzaldehyde, and cyanide, and it is the latter which is believed to be the active cancer-fighting ingredient of Laetrile. It is important to note, however, that cyanide is actually toxic to all cells, which makes the overall toxicity of Laetrile a concern. Yet studies suggest that Laetrile is more toxic to cancer cells than to normal cells. After all, your chances of getting cyanide poisoning from apple seeds or almonds are extremely slim, and we mustn’t forget that cancer is toxic to begin with. (And the last time I checked, so are chemotherapy and radiation.)

You May Be Asking The Following Question

Question: “If B17 is so powerful and helpful towards cancer elimination, then why is it not prescribed by modern physicians as a treatment?”

 Simple Answer: “A control for cancer is known, and it comes from nature, but it is not widely available to the public because it cannot be patented, and therefore is not commercially attractive to the pharmaceutical industry.”
 — G. Edward Griffin.

Dr. Sugiura’s Research

Dr. Kanematsu Suigura spent the majority of his career at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and has authored more than 250 papers; he has also received numerous awards, one of which included the highest honors from the Japan Medical Association for outstanding contributions in cancer research. He specifically studied Laetrile and discovered that it showed very positive results with preventing malignant lung tumors in laboratory mice. In control groups which received only plain saline, the lung tumors spread to between 80 and 90 percent of the mice, but in those given Laetrile, the tumors only spread to between 10 and 20 percent.

And Now For The Cover-Up…

By 1974 findings for Laetrile’s cancer fighting properties were so positive that the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center had signed off on clinical trials — but then everything changed. The center started to get other scientists to perform the experiments involving Laetrile and whenever an experiment showed the possibility of a positive outcome, the research was completely scrapped and disregarded. Other scientists working at Sloan Kettering who had previously been on board with the cancer-fighting properties of Laetrile started to characterize these studies, and Sugiura himself, as fraudulent, even though nothing scientifically had changed to negate Sugiura’s findings.

Ralph Moss was a friend and colleague of Dr. Sugiura’s and was well informed about his findings in regards to Laetrile. When things started to go downhill, Moss found himself stuck in a moral dilemma: he could lie to support his employer, Sloan Kettering, or tell the truth about Laetrile and sacrifice his job. In the end, Moss chose to tell the truth and came clean at a press conference that was held in July of 1977. This ended up being his final day as an employee of the Sloan Kettering foundation.

According to Ralph Moss, the Laetrile cover-up really only makes sense when viewed through the lens of “the politics of cancer.” According to Moss: “The people on Sloan Kettering’s Board of Directors were a ‘Who’s Who’ of investors in petrochemical and other polluting industries. In other words, the hospital was being run by people who made their wealth by investing in the worst cancer-causing things on the planet.”

More Information About Laetrile’s Cancer Fighting Properties

Even though Laetrile is not an FDA-approved cancer treatment, there are doctors who are choosing to use it ‘illegally,’ like John A. Richardson. He has been treating cancer patients at his clinic in San Francisco, California and it has been working a whole lot better than the traditional methods of treatment. His numerous success stories are documented in his book, Laetrile Case Histories: The Richardson Cancer Clinic Experience.

The FDA considers Laetrile an unapproved form of cancer treatment and it is illegal for a practitioner to administer. As a result of these regulations, you cannot buy Laetrile in the United States, although you can buy Vitamin B17/amygdalin in supplement form. Apricots themselves are not illegal, of course, so you can always gather their seeds on your own, though this is immensely time consuming. If you do choose this course of action, be aware that you are doing it at your own discretion. Because I am not a doctor and cannot give out medical advice, I highly suggest that you find a doctor who practices alternative medicine and who can best direct you on how to properly use this treatment.

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