What’s The Difference?

Among muscle cramps, spasms and pain the only difference is the severity or degree of effect, extreme pain being the most severe.

Muscle irritability, at times, is a symptom of calcium deficiency that will become painful muscle cramps or spasms if not handled or mismanaged. In extreme cases where the blood calcium level drops too low, a calcium deficiency can cause debilitating convulsions.

Cramps or spasms of the uterus starting ten days prior to a woman’s monthly menstrual cycle often escalate just prior to the menses onset. During adolescent years, when the normal demand for calcium by the growing body is escalated, this condition can be aggravated. In fact, teenagers of both genders go through “growing pains” associated with temporary calcium deficiency. Even infants can experience cramps or spasms – called colic.

Elevated muscle spasms or cramps can cause varying degrees of pain, including temporary headaches and the more severe variety, migraine headaches.

The Right Way to Handle Muscle Cramps, Spasms and Pain

People find in many cases that a remedy of the lack of calcium (and magnesium) often ceases their muscle cramping or alleviates their pain. As a result, more people are learning to avoid drugs as a solution to the problem.

Calcium needs its partner mineral, magnesium. A balanced ratio of two parts calcium to one part magnesium is optimum for muscle function maintenance. Contractions are engineered by calcium, and muscle relaxation is brought on by magnesium. In turn, calcium and magnesium both need the presence of an acid, such as Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) or apple cider vinegar, to improve their absorption and to help avoid increased mineral deficiency problems, like unwelcome calcium deposits in joints (arthritis) and kidneys (stones). Vitamin C is the more practical, better-tasting solution of the two choices.

Commonly, cramps and spasms occur in the lower legs or toes but these can also occur inside the intestinal tract – a condition known as spastic colitis or spastic constipation.