An expert in the field of diagnosis and treatment of varicose disease, Phlebologist Irakli Kutidze, answers questions about how to deal with varicose veins.
"According to statistics, 80% of women are sick varicose veins. What are the prevention methods? For example, if the work is sitting, and there is no opportunity to play sports, is it enough to walk like a varicose varicose, for example, kilometer-two in the morning and in the evening?
Indeed, the modern lifestyle, constant stress, overwork and non-normalized work schedule lead to chronic fatigue, which simply leaves no desire to play sports. With sedentary work occurs stagnation of venous blood in the legs. Such static load leads to veins overloads on the legs, and subsequently to the development of varicose disease. Hiking loads have favorably affect the venous system, stimulate the work of the icy muscles, which are a kind of muscle pump, which "chases" blood through itself. Walking - a useful occupation that good affects the entire body, and not just on the veins on the legs.
However, as is well known, one of the main causes of varicose disease is heredity. If there is information about the disease, what to do relatives? How to protect yourself and baby, for example, from varicose veins?
If someone from your relatives has been diagnosed with varicose disease, it is worth more carefully and carefully treat their health, in particular, to the legs. To protect yourself from varicose veins, it is necessary to carry out preventive measures: periodic physical exertion, wearing compression knitwear, compliance with labor and recreation. Well, periodic dispensarization with the implementation of ultrasound research veins of the lower extremities. And when identifying functional changes and increasing the symptoms of the disease, you need to consult a doctor. Varicose vein extension has the property to constantly progress. And the further, the more difficult the treatment.
About treatment - a separate conversation. Advertising on TV and on the Internet is a shot of information about miraculous creams and ointments. Is it worth trying treatment yourself, is it harmful to publicly available ointments?
Before starting to be treated, it is still necessary to determine the cause of concern. Self-treatment rarely leads to positive results, and on the contrary, only pulls out a goal of the doctor and aggravates the disease. Unfortunately, if the diagnosis of varicose disease is still installed by a specialist, the cream and ointment will not solve the problem with the varicose veins of the lower limbs. All possible ointments, creams, pills and compression knitwear eliminate the symptoms of varicose veins, stop pain, remove swelling, but do not treat varicose veins. "