[pct-l] Feet Swelling

[Yoshihiro Murakami]

Dear Sean

Today is Sunday, so I have consulted the brief handbook of mountain
medicine, because I cannot understand the swelling of feet. I had
never  experienced the swelling.

There are three causes of the swelling.

1. The altitude sickness. In this case, the swelling disappears as
soon as clime down the mountain.

2.The lack of water.  When the amount of drinking  is a little, the
excretion of water is disturbed because of the hormone. This
phenomenon continues for a few days.

3. The lack of carbohydrate. In this case our body uses the protein
for energy resource, and the kidney must work excessively.  As a
result, the kidney function will be disturbed. This disturbance last
long.

The footwear does not cause swelling. I think your case is the
malfunction of kidney. If you  take more carbohydrate foods and water,
the swelling problem will disappear.



2010/2/17 Sean 'Miner' Nordeen <sean at lifesadventures.net>:
> I started the trail in April 2009 with a half size larger in a pair of new balance shoes.  They were the same pair that I had been going backpacking in for the past year on trips lasting 2 to 6 days and never had any problems with blisters.
>
> However, due to the hotter evnironment of the PCT, I started to get blisters by day 2.  After 2 weeks on the trail, I went home to heal up from an injury and I found that my normal size shoes didn't fit and realized that my half size larger shoes now fit perfect.  I promptly bought new shoes that were 1.5 sizes larger then I normally wore and I wore that size for the rest of the trip.  When I returned home, I couldn't even wear my original size shoes with any comfort until 3 months latter.
>
> I normally use superfeet insoles and used the same sized insole was used no matter what size of Shoe I bought since they were all in the same size range.  I suspect this helped my comfort since I was always getting similar arch support no matter what size I wore and they helped keep my feet from moving around in the shoe as easily.
>
> So what you can do is start with the smaller shoes but keep a pair oif larger shoes available (say in a bounce box) in case you need them (or you can attempt to buy a larger pair in Idyllwild or Big Bear if you decide you need them).  You can decide on what your final shoe size is on the trail.
>
> -Miner
>
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Sincerely
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Hiro    ( Yoshihiro Murakami )
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Backpacking for 30 years in Japan
2009 JMT, the first America.
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