Varicose veins are one of the most common vascular diseases.
Varicose veins still plagued our ancestors, but later doctors tried to overcome the disease, but without success. In our time, chronic venous insufficiency continues to ruin beautiful women and men’s legs. However, modern medicine provides a series of methods on how to get rid of varicose veins in the legs.
According to some reports, more than 10% of the population suffers from this disease in one form or another, and women are more susceptible to this disease.
Varicose veins can occur at any age, even in childhood. The decisive factor in the development of the disease is genetic predisposition.
Causes of varicose veins
The main cause of varicose veins is genetically determined connective tissue defects, including the tissues that make up blood vessels. Genetic predisposition means that if a first-line relative has any form of varicose veins, then the person is at risk for the disease.
For the development of varicose veins, the patient's lifestyle also requires special conditions. These factors cause habitual stagnation of blood in the lower body by generating static load.
Varicose veins in the legs usually occur in people who work and stand for long periods of time: hairdressers, shop assistants, surgical surgeons.
Pregnancy can cause pelvic varicose veins, because the enlarged uterus can cause long-term compression of the pelvic floor veins. In addition, people with a sedentary lifestyle may also experience pelvic varicose veins.
Factors that affect blood circulation and cause varicose veins in the legs also include the habit of wearing tight clothes and shoes, and sitting cross-legged. The cause of pelvic varices can be used as a contraceptive method through incomplete intercourse.
Symptoms of varicose veins
The symptoms of varicose veins in the legs are as follows:
- Feeling very tired, feeling heavy and full in the legs, worse at night;
- Leg pain, no clear location, pain and pulling, and afternoon pain syndrome is also aggravated;
- The appearance of external symptoms of varicose veins in the legs. Telangiectasia or spider veins are intertwined with purple or cyan colored blood vessels. As the disease progresses, large veins begin to appear in the form of curved and swollen subcutaneous cords, the so-called worm-like veins;
- In the late stage, signs of complications of leg varicose veins will appear: thrombophlebitis, trophic ulcers, thrombosis. These are serious complications that can cause a significant decrease in the patient's quality of life (trophic ulcers), and in some cases even death (pulmonary embolism caused by venous thrombosis of the lower extremities).
The symptoms of female pelvic varicose are non-specific, similar to the symptoms of female genital tract inflammatory diseases, which is why diagnosis errors often occur.
The main symptoms of pelvic varicose are:
- Intermittent pain in the pelvic area. Tracking the dependence of the pain syndrome on the phases of the menstrual cycle, the pain usually gets worse shortly before the start of menstruation;
- The vagina secretes a lot of mucus.
A special case of pelvic varicose is hemorrhoids and all its inherent symptoms.
Symptoms of varicose veins in men are usually not noticed at all, but discovered accidentally during the physical examination. Usually, this is the characteristic worm-like pattern of the enlarged venous plexus on one side of the scrotum, and unilateral pain in this area appears after weight bearing.
Diagnosis of varicose veins
The diagnosis is based on the symptoms of varicose veins, external examination data, and the results of hardware research methods. In this regard, the largest amount of information is Doppler ultrasound and duplex ultrasound vascular scanning.
If a woman's pelvic varices is difficult to diagnose, transuterine venography can be used.
To confirm the diagnosis of testicular varicose veins, special functional tests (for example, Valsava test) are used.
Varicose Vein Treatment
The treatment of varicose veins depends on the location of the pathology and can be conservative or surgical. The most commonly used combinations.
As a conservative treatment for varicose veins in the legs, medications and compression therapy are used. The use of the drug has no independent meaning, but it helps relieve the symptoms of varicose veins in the legs: eliminate the feeling of heaviness, fatigue and pain.
Compression therapy includes wearing medical compression stockings, which can compress and massage superficial veins and help eliminate venous congestion. Compression therapy is very effective and can be considered an independent method to treat varicose veins in the early or postoperative period. At present, medical compression stockings are made of high-tech materials, and long-term wearing will not cause any problems, including aesthetic problems.
The most thorough treatment for all types of varicose veins is surgery. Phlebologists now prefer minimally invasive techniques: varicose sclerosing, laser surgery, endoscopic phlebectomy, and microsurgery phlebectomy of veins. These technologies enable you to obtain excellent results with minimal risk of surgery and postoperative complications.
Classical varicose vein surgery is also used, in which the damaged part of the vein is bandaged and removed. In this case, the blood flow is bypassed.
It should be understood that the modern treatment of varicose veins and all its achievements have not eliminated the main cause of the disease-the weakness of the blood vessel wall. Therefore, the treatment performed needs to prevent the recurrence of the disease for life, and if possible, completely eliminate the factors that lead to the development of varicose veins. Only in this way can it be said that the disease is completely cured.
Using folk remedies to treat varicose veins
Folk remedies for varicose veins are widely and actively used, but their effects are usually insignificant. The use of folk remedies to treat varicose veins is a symptomatic treatment that can alleviate the discomfort caused by the disease and its complications. Generally, decoctions and ointments based on medicinal plants with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects are used for this purpose.