Varicose veins on the legs are a chronic disease. The causes of varicose veins can be hereditary factors, passive lifestyle, high load on the legs and blood vessels. Varicose veins are common during pregnancy.
In pregnant women, the load on the legs increases, edema often occurs, and against this background blood clots and other problems with the blood vessels may appear, causing varicose veins.
At the first symptoms of varicose veins (swollen veins, veins in the legs, severe swelling of the legs, pain in the legs and feet), you should see a phlebologist. A thorough examination is required to determine the diagnosis and degree of varicose veins. After receiving the necessary data, the doctor will tell you how to treat varicose veins on the legs, prescribe the necessary medications and procedures.
What specialists treat varicose veins?
When varicose veins occur, many patients do not know which doctor treats varicose veins? All vascular diseases are treated by a phlebologist. Phlebologist is a narrow medical specialization involving the diagnosis and treatment of vascular pathological diseases.
Naturally, a phlebologist should not be visited when the varicose veins are at an advanced stage. It is best to get a personal phlebologist who can see the development of venous disease at an early stage and prescribe treatment.
If you have varicose veins, it is recommended to contact a venous specialist - a phlebologist
Methods of treating varicose veins
Varicose veins are one of the most unpleasant and dangerous diseases, for the effective treatment of which various methods are used. How to treat varicose veins? Varicose veins can be treated by choosing one of several methods.
Treatment options for varicose veins depend on the degree of complexity of the disease and the individual characteristics of the human body. The procedure for treating varicose veins must be agreed with the doctor. Among the methods of combating varicose veins in the legs, the following effective methods can be distinguished:
Sclerotherapy
The essence of this technique is that a special substance (sclerosant) is injected into a diseased vein using a thin needle.
Sclerosant, enters the vein, causing its walls to attach and remove the affected ducts from the network of common blood vessels in the legs.
Sclerotherapy helps to get rid of small varicose veins in 3-5 weeks, and in three months, the varicose veins and large bruises will disappear.
Surgical vein removal (Phlebectomy)
This technique is used for the neglect of severe varicose veins. Surgical surgery is performed when the varicose veins cause the appearance of large knots and seals in the vessel, provoking the appearance of large blood clots. Significant disadvantages of surgery for varicose veins are scars and scars on the skin.
Laser therapy for varicose veins is used as a simple and painless method of treating varicose veins. The laser acts on the affected vessel according to the same principles as the sclerotherapy procedure. The walls of blood vessels under the influence of laser radiation are soldered, but it takes a long time to treat varicose veins effectively. A positive aspect of laser therapy for varicose veins is the absence of scars on the skin.
Hirudotherapy or treatment of varicose veins with leeches. Leeches for varicose veins are often used by adherents of natural remedies. This does not mean that hirudotherapy techniques are effective, it has many shortcomings. To get a significant effect of hirudotherapy, you need to undergo several courses, each of which has 8 sessions. Treatment of varicose veins with leeches is only effective in the early stages of vascular disease.
Prevention of varicose veins
Varicose veins begin to manifest in the form of severe or episodic pain in the legs, the appearance of vascular tissue on the skin of the feet and veins that stand out in blue.
It is best to warn of varicose veins first, rather than later look for various methods of healing. Here are some precautions you can take to prevent the development of varicose veins.
- Do not wear high-heeled shoes that are tight and uncomfortable. From uncomfortable shoes in the foot ducts, the pressure increases, which leads to the formation of blood clots and the expansion of varicose veins.
- Exercising regularly can help you avoid varicose veins. It is best to spend time every day walking, running, dancing, swimming. Varicose veins most often develop in sellers, hairdressers, stewardesses. Why is this trend being observed? The feet of people from such professions during the day receive a large static load as a result of long standing. As a result, the development of varicose veins.
- Weight must be monitored continuously, as extra weight increases the load on the leg ducts and increases blood pressure in the walls.
- It is best to arrange regular walks with bare feet on various rough surfaces (gravel, sand, hay). In this way, effective toning of the veins in the legs can be achieved, and at the same time, the leg muscles relax and relax well.
- Do not often eat salty and spicy foods, alcoholic beverages. All spicy and salty foods contribute to the formation of blood clots and the development of varicose veins. You can thin the concentrated blood with plain water or tomato juice without salt.
- Varicose veins often provoke the development of unpleasant phenomena such as cellulite. How to treat cellulite with varicose veins? For patients with varicose veins, a number of procedures are contraindicated to effectively fight cellulite. Therefore, the doctor must choose an individual treatment plan for varicose veins, which will show the method of dealing with the resulting cellulite. With varicose veins, it is permissible to use a number of procedures aimed at eliminating the symptoms of cellulite. These treatments include blue clay foot bandages, contrast water treatments, swimming and brisk walking. With varicose veins, high temperature exposure to the affected leg is highly undesirable. For this reason, it is necessary to leave the thermal wrap in the fight against cellulite. With varicose veins, you can not visit the baths and saunas, go to the solarium, massage the affected legs with swollen veins. With varicose veins, the power load is contraindicated. Therefore, people who suffer from varicose veins will not be able to get rid of cellulite through strenuous activity.
Varicose veins - when should you see a doctor?
The first symptoms of early varicose veins are definitely a signal to visit a doctor. The main signs of varicose vein development are:
- Severe weight and fatigue in the legs, swelling in the legs.
- Night cramps in calf muscles.
- Burns and pain in the legs.
- Widest Vein
- Appearance of small spider veins or large swelling on the surface of the skin.
Varicose veins can occur not only in the lower limbs. Also known are varicose veins of the small pelvis, uterine varicose veins, varicose veins in the esophagus or genitals. With the development of one type of varicose vein, the following symptoms appear:
- Severe pain in the lower abdomen
- Inflatable Groin Veins
- Unpleasant discharge from the genitals
- Pain during sexual intercourse
- Pain in the sacrum and lower back that increases with the onset of menstruation
- Disorders in the menstrual cycle, prolonged menstruation with discharge spots.
Symptoms listed are not specific, can signal other diseases. However, if you suspect varicose veins, it is best to visit a competent specialist who will make an accurate diagnosis and prescribe the necessary procedures.
Diagnosis of varicose veins
Diagnostic measures to determine the level of varicose veins are started by the doctor since the patient applied. If the early stages of varicose veins are diagnosed, then treatment will be conservative. That is why a visit to the doctor should not be delayed if you suspect varicose veins.
For an accurate diagnosis of varicose veins and their degree of complexity, a thorough examination is performed using laboratory and hardware techniques. Patients must pass the tests required to conduct clinical and laboratory research, as well as undergo several procedures.
In particular, it is necessary to make triplex ultrasound, dopplerographic ultrasound of blood vessels, perform a minimum assessment of invasive venous blood flow. For an accurate diagnosis, you will need to make an x-ray of the vein (a special procedure in which a radiopaque contrast agent is injected into a diseased vein), to check the pressure on the vein over time.
Based on the results obtained, the phlebologist draws a comprehensive conclusion on the presence of varicose veins from various stages.
Traditional medicine for varicose veins
Varicose veins are a common disease that, in most cases, cannot be treated with conventional medicine.
Varicose veins often occur in pregnant women who cannot take strong medications.
That is why the treatment of varicose veins at home, using proven traditional medicine, is increasingly practiced.
- With varicose veins, a hop cone decoction helps, which you need to drink three times a day, one glass. Chopped hop cones (1 tbsp) must be poured with boiling water and slightly hardened.
- Apple cider vinegar for the treatment of varicose veins is used externally and internally. Drink apple cider vinegar diluted with water, one tablespoon a day. The leg area affected by varicose veins is rubbed with pure apple cider vinegar, if there are no lesions and boils on the skin.
- Before going to bed, grated raw potatoes or finely chopped green tomatoes can be applied to swollen veins and bruises.
- For the treatment of varicose veins with folk remedies, you can prepare a special ointment from the collection of herbs. You need to take a teaspoon of dried herbs chamomile, St. John's wort. John, chicory, coltsfoot and meadowsweet. The whole collection of ingredients is poured with water in the amount of 1 ml, and boiled until boiling. After boiling, you need to add badger fat to the composition. For a week, the ointment should be applied to the feet with swollen veins, wrapping the feet with plastic wrap.
Treatment with folk remedies does not always have a lasting effect on varicose veins, but effectively soothes the veins and ducts. Alternative treatment of varicose veins can be used if there is no opportunity for drug treatment.
You can reduce the risk of getting varicose veins by observing a proper diet and doing regular physical activity. Varicose veins can be completely cured with surgical intervention, performed after a thorough examination by a phlebologist.