The fluid that is leaking from your legs is lymphatic fluid.
Lymphatic fluid can escape from your tissues and leak out of your legs due to severe swelling, which is a condition called weeping edema or lymphorrhea.
The leaking fluid from your legs often occurs due to conditions like heart failure, venous insufficiency or lymphedema, which causes more fluid to build up than your body can manage.
When your legs or leg becomes severely swollen, the skin stretches and then becomes thin.
As a result, the excess fluid eventually forces it's way through the tiny breaks in your skin and or causes blisters to form, which allows the watery, clear or slightly yellowish lymphatic fluid to seep out.
Common causes of the fluid leakage from your legs are complications of severe or chronic edema, which can be caused by heart, liver or kidney conditions, lymphedema or even venous insufficiency.
Heart, liver or kidney conditions like congestive heart failure, liver disease or kidney disease can cause your body to retain excess salt and fluid and lead to the fluid leaking from your legs.
Lymphedema, which results in damages or blockages in your lymphatic system result in a buildup of protein rich lymph fluid.
And venous insufficiency, which results in weakened valves in your leg veins cause blood to pool, pushing fluid into your surrounding tissue.
When you have fluid leaking from your legs, it requires prompt medical attention, because if left untreated the fluid that is leaking from your leg or legs can create open wounds, which are also highly susceptible to bacterial infections such as cellulitis, which can also become serious or even life threatening.
If the fluid leaking from your legs is also accompanied by chest pain, shortness of breath or any sudden severe swelling in one leg, which could indicate a blood clot, or rapidly spreading redness and warmth in the leg, you should get to the ER and seek emergency medical care immediately.
In the short term, for management, keep the area that is leaking fluid clean.
Gently cleanse the skin where the fluid is leaking from the legs, to prevent bacteria from entering the open pores.
And cover the leaks of fluid with thick, sterile pads to manage the moisture and to protect your skin from breaking down.
Prop your legs up above the level of your heart several times a day to help gravity drain the fluid.
And don't constrict the leg with tight bands unless they are specifically fitted and prescribed by a doctor.