Alternative names:
Other names varical are:
Varicosity and Varicosis
Varicosity - enlarged and tortuous veins, arteries or lymphatic vessels.
Causes
What are varicose veins and who gets them? Well, you yourself, but why? What causes varicose veins in the first place? Determination of the turgid veins, veins usually occur in the legs. This is very ugly, because I am sure that I know, but more than they painfully.
A valve inside the veins open to flow, then closed the blood rises. If the valves are weak or damaged, blood from the veins and swimming pool.
If the valve dampers blood from valves. Tail blood flow fills veins and appears on the walls. As a result, blood vessels get bigger and zyb and often rolled trying to press as habitual. These veins.
Bad or damaged valves in veins can cause varicose veins. After arteries provide oxygen-rich blood to the body, veins return blood to the heart. Veins on the legs to the grave to do it.
Bad valve may be the cause for weak wall veins. If the walls of veins are weak, they lose their normal elasticity. Be as overblown eraser. This wall veins longer and wider and causes the valves in the closed lid.
The longer a person is in motion, the greater reserve of blood in the veins. As more and more pools of blood in the veins, the walls of veins stretch. Symptoms of varicose veins to appear bluish, soft, gummy and sometimes tender chunks and veins under the skin. They are painful, but not always. Very small veins in the legs also increases. They are known as spider veins through the web test. These veins on samom dele does not meet the truth.
Treatment and prevention include common sense, Selfreliance approach. Treatment includes raised legs sitting. This helps reduce pain, swelling, and helps prevent varicose veins at all. Sit and watch TV or read, or even a computer, try to remember that your feet on a chair or on the legs, the more the better. This helps recirculate the blood back into the body. Another thing that may be able to support custom installation training socks. While not very attractive, and when they wear pants at home. Warning of varicose veins include the following recommendations:
- Wear your support stockings or tights
- Do not wear tight knee hose or knee socks, belts and rigid, which will have detrimental consequences for the entire movement.
- In the original stand, especially if you have a job where you stand all day, especially in one place. Raise your legs to the chair, simultaneously, switching parties, and move, if possible. Walking is still better than standing all day.
- Avoid sitting with your legs crossed
- Short walk during the day, go for lunch. As circles on a calf and Ankle pumping during the day.
- Each day, or lie on the floor in a room near the wall. Put your feet on the wall. Is there at least fifteen minutes a day. This will allow part or a large portion of blood, which are combined in the legs at the back of the legs and body. Also very relaxing and destressing. Take a nap or read, while this event, if you want.
It may be at higher risk because of weak keys walls, age or family history of varicose veins. It may be a higher risk if you have high pressure in the veins as a result of overweight or obesity, or pregnancy.
Symptoms
Chronic venous insufficiency - a brown skin coloring ankle, varicose eczema and seal tissue around the veins (liposclerosis) is evidence that more extensive tissue damage caused.
Surface thrombophlebitis - inflammation of veins. In the superficial veins become red, hot, tender and painful, and blood clot in a superficial veins. This can be solved within a few weeks. For patients with knee phlebitis above 20% (1 of 5 patients) is the primary deep venous thrombosis (thrombosis of deep veins or THV). Sometimes when severe phlebitis varicose veins begin to disappear, but it is important to assess the vascular surgeon, so that no residual differences that require further treatment to prevent phlebitis.
Bleeding - bleeding from varicose veins are relatively common, especially in large roots-type veins. If the bleeding does not appear in general are small, very vascular surface blebs on the skin.
Varicose ulcer - if tissue loss is sufficiently large, the development of ulcers on the skin above the ankle. Many patients are afraid when they hear the word plague, but this only means that there is no loss of skin and tissue under the skin effect.
Examinations and Tests
The main tools for diagnosis of varicose veins on physical examination and medical history. Wen is usually diagnosed based on appearance, as well as other special tests needed to confirm the diagnosis.
If the problem lies in the deep veins or complications that are suspected based on symptoms and treatment, other tests may be conducted.
If you plan to varicose veins operation or skleroterapiya for further research can help determine the location of the veins, the problem is that reading is the best chance of success.
Doplerovskie Duplex ultrasound of the most widely used noninvasive test medical examination, blood flow in leg veins.
Venogram can evaluate complications of varicose veins, such as deep veins. Investigations are rarely useful in the diagnosis and treatment of varicose veins.
Treatment
Will varicose veins return after treatment?
Veins that are actually there, but again could not cope and that there is no danger of periodic varicose veins. New veins may appear, even after appropriate treatment. It is possible that the veins, but it is not possible to eliminate the tendency to develop varicose veins for a treatment. Sometimes in patients with varicose veins by injection therapy, which can not be introduced because they are physically not cleared to resume.
Reflux in deep veins can cause veins to return, but it is often not treated.
Even with varicose veins, usually return more than one year if the most relevant and effective operations are performed.
Possible complications
All these forms of varicose monitoring, but it does not necessarily sweep type to another.
Warning
Wen can be prevented to some extent:
Wear compression stockings. They improve circulation, varicose veins, and the main reason that the treatment of symptoms.
Regular grow legs. Adjustable height legs to keep blood in the lower legs association and improves blood flow to other parts of the body.
Avoid long periods standing or sitting. Sit or stand for long periods also puts added emphasis on the veins on the legs.
Implementation and control weight. Walking, cycling, swimming and veins recommended.
This can alleviate symptoms, slow the progression of varicose veins and prevent complications such as ulcers or bleeding. This is especially important if family history of varicose veins. These measures help to avoid surgery or other treatment in the veins.