How to treat varicose and spider veins?
There are many types of therapies available to help patients with both varicose veins and spider veins. While thousands of people every year consider getting treatment for varicose and spider veins, it is only necessary in severe cases and most people elect treatment for cosmetic purposes. Some varicose veins may sometimes worsen without treatment. Your physician will first try methods that don’t require surgery to relieve your symptoms. If you have mild to moderate varicose veins, elevating your legs can help reduce leg swelling and relieve other symptoms. Your physician may instruct you to prop your feet up above the level of your heart 3 or 4 times a day for about 15 minutes at a time. When you need to stand for a long period of time, you can flex your legs occasionally to allow the venous pump to keep blood moving toward your heart. If you bump your leg so hard that you know it is likely to bruise, elevate your leg and apply ice or a cold pack as soon as you can for the next hour o
How to treat varicose and spider veins? The old saying “there are many ways to skin a cat” applies to the many types of therapy available to help patients with both varicose veins and spider veins. A conservative treatment is support stockings to be put on before getting out of bed in the morning and worn all day. This will not make either the spider or varicose veins go away and probably not even prevent any leg veins from worsening but it may provide some symptomatic relief while being worn. Stockings can be custom fit or bought over the counter in a drug store and both types are available in different degrees of compression. Injections of medications into veins is known as sclerotherapy. It has been a successful method of treating both spider veins as well as varicose veins since the 1600s. The medicines used in sclerotherapy act upon the inner lining of the vein walls to gradually cause them to seal shut and stop the flow of blood through them. This method of treatment of treatment
