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8 Best Treatments to Get Rid Of Varicose Veins
A varicose vein is a condition when the veins become enlarged and overfilled with blood. The veins are usually swollen and protrude through the skin. This is a common condition that affects over 25 percent of the world’s adult population. Varicose veins commonly affect the lower limbs. Because of instant pressure and gravity, it is harder for the blood to flow upward and it accumulates in the veins of your leg.
Varicose veins cause both aesthetic and physical discomfort. The bluish-purple veins that protrude through the skin can decrease your self-confidence. Besides, it can trigger symptoms like leg swelling, heaviness, pain, and discoloration. Treating varicose veins can help reduce the symptoms, enhance the appearance of your legs, and improve overall well-being.
Below are 8 best traditional and alternative treatments that can help you treat varicose veins.
1. Lifestyle changes
Lifestyle changes play a major role in the treatment of varicose veins. It is important to avoid sitting for a long time and move more. Activities like walking improve the blood flow in the legs and prevent further development of varicosis. You may also try physical therapy to maintain healthy body weight, another important factor for the treatment of varicose veins. Excessive weight puts unnecessary pressure on your legs and can aggravate symptoms like pain and swelling.
It is also very important to wear the right clothing and shoes. You need to avoid wearing skinny jeans because they prevent normal blood flow to the legs. If you frequently wear high heels, replace them with comfortable shoes without heels or with small heels. High heels are bad for your veins because they overstrain calf muscles.
2. Compression stockings
It is recommended for almost everyone with varicose veins to wear compression stockings. They squeeze your legs steadily, thereby promoting a blood flow in the leg veins. A compression stocking is a first-line treatment that is used before trying other treatment options. In combination with lifestyle changes, it helps most people with varicose veins. You can opt for compression stockings at any pharmacy or medical supply store.
3. Massage
The massage itself cannot treat the varicose veins, but it relieves the symptoms, like swelling, and improves the quality of your life. This therapy cannot re-circulate the blood and improve the blood flow from your leg to the heart. But this is an effective option for temporary relief.
If you want to try massage to improve your varicose veins treatment, you need to visit an experienced doctor who regularly deals with this condition. The hand of an inexperienced therapist can further aggravate varicose.
4. Horse chestnut
Horse chestnut is a plant that contains a significant amount of poison called esculin. The leaf and seed of this plant are often used to treat varicose veins. Taking the supplements with horse chestnut seed extract containing 16% to 20% of the chemical aescin can help improve the symptoms. It improves the blood flow, pain, tiredness, and swelling in the legs. It isn’t recommended to take horse chestnut supplements without a prescription from your doctor.
5. Sclerotherapy
Sclerotherapy is a procedure during which the doctor destroys the affected vein by injecting it with a special solution. This solution causes the collapse of the vein and redirects blood to healthy veins. Over time, your body destroys this vein completely, and it disappears. This procedure is usually used to treat small varicose veins that are located close to the skin surface.
When the large veins are affected by varicose, the doctor may use foam sclerotherapy. In this case, the doctor turns the solution into foam because foam can cover a larger surface than a liquid. Both sclerotherapy and foam sclerotherapy helps improve the appearance of legs and eliminate bluish veins.
6. Laser ablation
Laser ablation is a procedure that uses heat to destroy the affected vein. During the procedure, your doctor makes a small cut on your leg and inserts a catheter that will be guided to the affected vein. When it reaches the affected vein, the doctor puts laser fibers in the catheter and heats them with the help of a laser. As a result, the veins close up and shrink completely. Over time, your body reabsorbs this vein and it disappears. When the varicose vein disappears, your body redirects the bloodstream in the healthy veins.
This method is often used to treat large or deep varicose veins. After this procedure, your doctor may prescribe you OTC medication to ease pain and discomfort. General recommendations after laser vein ablation include:
Keeping the incision clean and dry
Avoiding hot baths
Not sitting, standing, or lying down for a long time
Wearing compression stockings
Walking 3 times a day for 15 minutes
7. Radiofrequency ablation
Radiofrequency ablation is a minimally-invasive procedure used for the treatment of varicose veins. In this procedure, the doctor uses radiofrequency energy to destroy the affected vein. This procedure is similar to laser ablation, but here, the doctor uses radiofrequency energy instead of laser energy. The doctor directs radiofrequency energy in the vein through the thin tube inserted in the vein.
This treatment option can be used for both small and large varicose vein treatment. The general post-surgical recommendations are similar to laser ablation.
8. Endoscopic vein surgery
This type of varicose vein treatment is used only in the most severe cases when the varicosis causes skin ulcers. During this procedure, the doctor makes a small incision near the affected vein and inserts a special device with a tiny camera at the end. Then, the doctor closes the affected vein and removes it through the small incisions in your leg. Endoscopic vein surgery is an outpatient procedure, so you don’t need to stay in the hospital and can return home. You will be able to return to your normal life within the several weeks following the procedure.
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