Varicose veins on women's legs are treated with surgery. Minimally invasive surgery designed to close dilated veins can be used. In most cases, sclerotherapy is used for this purpose. But most women don't want to see a doctor, let alone use a knife. They prefer to treat varicose veins at home.
How to treat at home?
It is impossible to treat varicose veins at home. Although conservative treatment is adopted, it cannot reverse the pathological process, nor can it improve women's condition in the long term. Family therapy goals:
- Reduce the symptoms of varicose veins;
- Reduce the possibility of complications;
- Slow down the pathological progress;
- improve the quality of life.
At home, women can use pharmacy drugs, folk remedies, and compression services. It is possible to use procedures to reduce the severity of symptoms, and to observe hygiene at work and rest, which can improve the quality of life to a certain extent.
Recommended procedures for use at home:
- Hot and cold shower;
- Lie with your leg raised;
- Bath with salt or soda water, herbal soup;
- massage;
- Physical Exercise.
Can use tights-stockings or golf balls. They narrow the venous cavity and fully or partially compensate for the failure of the venous valve.
How to treat with medication?
There are many drugs to treat varicose veins. Different drugs have different effects. It is recommended to agree with your doctor about their reception, because the dosage, the duration of the course, and the drug combination are selected according to your health and the stage of varicose veins.
Women can use the following types of drugs at home:
- Intravenous injection.The preparation is mainly derived from plants. After being taken orally or applied to the skin, the preparation can increase the tension of the vein wall, thereby narrowing the vascular cavity. They have a temporary effect that lasts for several hours. Pills are more effective than ointments.
- Antioxidants (Vitamin E, C, α-lipoic acid)Used to improve tissue nutrition. These drugs are needed to slow down the destructive processes that occur in tissues by disrupting the blood supply to the tissues.
- Antiplatelet agents.Drugs that reduce the possibility of thrombosis. Usually, acetylsalicylic acid is used in low doses for this purpose. This group of drugs also has anesthesia and decongestion effects.
- Anticoagulant.They are applied to the skin in the form of a gel. These are medicines containing heparin. It reduces the possibility of thrombosis.
How to treat with pills?
Basically, the pills used for women with varicose veins are venotonics. All these pills are toxic to the stomach, therefore:
- The course of treatment should be limited;
- Pills should not be taken for peptic ulcer or gastritis;
- The dosage should be monitored by a doctor;
- Tablets should only be taken after meals.
We remind you that varicose veins cannot be cured with pills. They are only used to relieve symptoms of disease.
How to use folk remedies for treatment?
It is futile to treat most diseases with folk remedies. But this does not apply to varicose veins on women's legs. In fact, almost all medicines sold in pharmacies to treat this disease are of plant origin. Therefore, you can use herbs or foods that contain the same active ingredients as medicines.
It should be remembered that compared with the use of pharmacy drugs, folk remedies for varicose veins have many disadvantages:
- There is no way to control the dose. Therefore, the risk of side effects will be higher and the possibility of reducing the symptoms of varicose veins will be lower.
- Time-consuming process. You will have to make decoctions or infusions yourself, which will take a lot of time and effort.
- unpalatable. Obviously, swallowing pills is more pleasant than drinking a portion of stinky broth or alcohol tincture. Folk remedies for external use are not always effective, and in addition, it is not always pleasant due to the special smell that permeates the entire house.
More or less effective folk methods:
- The use of infusions and decoctions of grapes or chestnuts-can increase the tone of blood vessel walls. Oral is more effective. Topical use is unlikely to have a major impact on the course of varicose veins.
- Topical use of warming agents (camphor oil, horseradish, pepper). Reduce swelling, pain and relax muscles.
- There is willow bark soup inside. It contains acetylsalicylic acid, which has analgesic effect and reduces blood clotting, reducing the risk of blood clots.
Folk remedies for varicose veins (not worth trying):
- Decoction of most plants: burdock, wormwood, comfrey, acacia;
- Compressed food: beets, potatoes, honey;
- Rituals, spells, prayers, conspiracies can and do help someone, but their effectiveness has not been clinically proven.
Like drug therapy, replacement therapy only has a symptomatic effect. In other words, the methods you use cannot cure anything, but can only reduce the clinical manifestations of varicose veins and improve the quality of life.
Output
The main methods of treating varicose veins are sclerotherapy and surgery. It is impossible to restore the ship to its previous appearance. Treatment at home is possible, but its purpose is not to completely cure the disease, but to improve women’s quality of life, reduce symptoms, slow the development of varicose veins and prevent complications. Home therapy is done through therapy, pressure taking, pills or folk remedies.