When you are suffering from varicose veins, you will be recommended compression socks to relieve the symptoms of varicose veins. If these don’t produce enough results, your doctor will recommend surgical procedures to seal off the varicose veins.
What are the risk factors of varicose veins?
- Don’t sit or stand for extended periods of time,
- Be physically active as much as possible so that the legs’ muscles stimulate the blood flow.
- Raise your legs so it becomes easier for healthy blood flow.
- Don’t cross your legs while sitting so that blood flow can’t be obstructed.
- Overweight people are prone to suffer from varicose veins. Therefore you are advised to lose weight to maintain healthy blood flow.
Before getting any kind of vein treatment, schedule your appointment at an authorized vein center.
A vein center is a section of Cardiovascular Associates that are experts in handling vein disease. All the clinical staff is dedicated to providing the best possible care for vein disease.
Are compression stockings helpful?
People with varicose veins are initially advised to put on compression stockings. These special socks put a little pressure on the veins that help the blood flow back to the heart in a healthy manner.
When are other treatments and procedures considered?
Your doctor may recommend medical treatment for varicose veins if;
- You don’t relieve the varicose veins symptoms.
- There are complications such as venous leg ulcers.
- If the varicose vein appearance is very upsetting.
- the person finds the appearance of their varicose veins very upsetting.
Varicose veins can be surgically removed or closed off utilizing heat energy or foam. The elimination procedure doesn’t affect the blood flow as the blood arranges its route through the healthy veins.
- How serious is varicose vein surgery?
Varicose vein surgery is recommended when the patients have larger varicose veins.
The main methods to terminate varicose veins are:
Vein ligation and stripping: this method includes a couple of incisions. One incision is at the top of the leg just beneath the affected area and the other behind the knee or at the ankle. The physician first ties the veins where he or she makes the top incision (vein ligation). Then, he or she inserts a long wire into the vein using the lower incision.
At long last, a button-like cap is joined to the lower end of the wire and the whole vein is gotten out through the cut close to the crotch.
Phlebectomy: In this methodology, a few tiny cuts (only a couple of millimeters wide) are made along the impacted vein. A little snare is then used to haul the vein out of these cuts quite far. The vein is then cut and taken out in a few pieces. This procedure is essentially utilized for more modest veins, similar to those that branch off from bigger veins. It is intended to forestall the kind of scarring that can happen when greater cuts are made during different sorts of methodology.
Consult your doctor first, when the vein issue is severe.
