Varicose veins are one of the most common vascular pathologies.
Varicose veins still bother our ancestors, but then doctors failed to try to cure the disease. In our time, chronic venous insufficiency continues to disfigure the legs of beautiful women and men, however, modern medicine offers a variety of methods of how to get rid of varicose veins on the legs.
According to some reports, more than 10% of the population suffers from the disease in one form or another, women are more susceptible to it.
Varicose veins can occur at any age, even in childhood. The determining factor in the development of the disease is hereditary predisposition.
Causes of varicose veins
The main cause of varicose veins is the imperfection of genetically determined connective tissue, including those that form the ducts. Hereditary predisposition means that if the first relative suffers from any form of varicose veins, then the person is at risk for the disease.
For the development of varicose veins, special conditions are also required, created by the lifestyle of the patient. These factors cause the normal stagnation of blood in the lower part of the body by creating a static load.
Varicose veins in the legs often occur in people whose work is associated with prolonged standing: hairdressers, shop assistants, operating surgeons.
Pelvic varicose veins can be triggered by pregnancy, as an enlarged uterus can cause prolonged compression of the pelvic floor veins. Also, pelvic varicose veins occur in people who lead an inactive lifestyle.
Factors that disrupt blood circulation and cause varicose veins in the legs also include wearing tight clothing and shoes, the habit of sitting cross-legged. The reason for the development of pelvic varicose veins can be practiced incomplete intercourse as a method of contraception.
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 in the evening;
- Pain in the legs, which has no obvious localization, is painful and interesting in nature, the pain syndrome also increases in the afternoon;
- The appearance of external symptoms of varicose veins in the legs. Telangiectasias, or spider veins, are a network of purple or cyanotic thin veins. As the disease progresses, large veins begin to appear in the form of swollen, winding subcutaneous cords, called worm-like veins;
- At an advanced stage, the signs of complications of varicose veins in the legs combine: thrombophlebitis, trophic ulcers, thrombosis. This is a formidable complication that causes a significant deterioration in the quality of life of patients (trophic ulcers), and in some cases even death (pulmonary embolism due to venous thrombosis in the lower extremities).
The symptoms of pelvic varicose veins in women are nonspecific, and resemble the symptoms of inflammatory diseases of the female genital tract, which is why diagnostic errors are often made.
The main symptoms of pelvic varicose veins are:
- Intermittent pain in the pelvic area. The dependence of the pain syndrome on the phase of the menstrual cycle is detected, just before the onset of menstruation, the pain, as a rule, increases;
- A lot of mucus comes out of the vagina.
A special case of manifestation of pelvic varicose veins is hemorrhoids with all the symptoms inherent.
Symptoms of testicular varicose veins in men are often not noticed at all, and are discovered by chance during a medical examination. As a rule, this is a worm -like pattern characteristic of an enlarged venous plexus on one side of the scrotum, attracting unilateral pain in this area that appears after loading.
Diagnosis of varicose veins
Diagnosis is based on varicose vein symptoms, external examination data, as well as the results of hardware research methods. In this capacity, the most informative are Doppler ultrasound and duplex ultrasound angioscanning.
If it is difficult to diagnose pelvic varicose veins in women, trans-uterine phlebography may be used.
To confirm the diagnosis of testicular varicose veins, special functional tests are used (e. g. , the Valsava test).
Varicose Veins Treatment
Treatment of varicose veins depends on the location of the pathology, and can be conservative or surgical. The most commonly used combination of some of them.
As a conservative treatment for varicose veins in the legs, drug therapy and compression are used. The use of the drug has no independent meaning, but it helps reduce the symptoms of varicose veins in the legs: to relieve heaviness, fatigue and pain.
Compression therapy consists of wearing medical compression socks, which have a compressive effect and massaging the superficial veins, helping to relieve venous congestion. Compression therapy is very effective and can be considered as an independent method of treating varicose veins in the legs in the early stages of development or in the postoperative period. Currently, medical compression socks are created from high -tech materials and do not cause any problems during prolonged wear, including aesthetic ones.
The most radical treatment for all types of varicose veins is surgery. Now phlebologists prefer minimally invasive techniques: sclerosing of varicose veins, laser surgery, endoscopic phlebectomy, microsurgical venous phlebectomy. These techniques allow you to achieve excellent results with minimal risk of surgical and postoperative complications.
Classical surgical treatment of varicose veins is also used, in which the damaged part of the vein is bandaged and cut. In this case, blood flow is intercepted.
It should be understood that modern treatment of varicose veins, with all its achievements, does not eliminate the main cause of the disease - the weakness of the vascular wall. Therefore, the treatment carried out requires lifelong prevention of recurrence of the disease, and, if possible, complete elimination of factors that contribute to the development of varicose veins. Only this approach will make it possible to talk about a complete cure of this disease.
The use of folk remedies for varicose veins
Folk remedies for varicose veins are widely and actively used, but their effectiveness is usually insignificant. The use of folk remedies for varicose veins is desirable as a symptomatic therapy to reduce the discomfort caused by the disease and its complications. As a rule, decoctions and ointments based on medicinal plants, which have anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects, are used for this purpose.