Varicose veins can be exposed to not only the veins of the legs – similar may change the veins:
- of the esophagus and the stomach;
- pelvic in women;
- left spermatic cord and the testicles in males.
But the causes of the development of all of these types of varicose veins are totally different. So prevention is radically different.
In this article are considered only events that prevent the most common type of varicose veins – the defeat of the lower limbs. In addition to the fact that it occupies 70% of the total incidence, only its prevention is very effective.
An integrated approach to the prevention of the development of varicose veins of the legs involves:
- Decide whether you need prevention – readings
- Pay attention to the shoes
- Choose the correct operation
- To be active, but remember to vacation
- Normal weight and eat right
- Say "no" to bad habits
- Do not be lazy to make material of gymnastics
- Make a draining massage to the feet
- Wear compression stockings
- Sometimes need medication
- Forecast for the prevention
The prevention of any disease, including varicose veins of the veins of the legs, nothing more easy than that of the treatment with. But if this knowledge is to engage in full and correctly, can prevent the onset of disease, or to avoid serious consequences.
Only hard work on yourself can give you the maximum effect. Above all, this is generally true for people with a high risk of the development of varicose veins of the veins of the legs. The prevention of this disease must become for them an integral part of the style of life, a daily habit pleasant. In fact, nothing complicated there is no.
For all matters relating to the prevention of varicose disease of the lower limbs, please contact the sosudistomu surgeon or phlebologist.
Decide whether you need prevention – readings
The main group of risk for development of varicose veins of the veins of the legs, have specific need for prevention, are the people:
- Having a genetic predisposition family members with this disease.
- Women, sick of dishormonal disorders in the ovaries.
- Pregnant women and mothers.
- People associated with heavy physical work, long remaining standing or sitting (characteristics of the profession and a sedentary life-style).
- The lovers of walking with high heels, take a hot bath, a sauna, spicy foods and alcoholic beverages.
- Face with the presence of characteristic ˮvenarumˮ complaints: swelling of the legs in the area of the ankles towards the evening, cramps and pain in the calf, heaviness of the legs, strengthening the venous figure, the vascular network.
The most important risk factors for varicose veins – hereditary predisposition, pregnancy, and dishormonal violations of women. All the other assumptions alone are not able to cause disease, but stratifying on the basis, speed up its appearance and weight.
Pay attention to the shoes
The question of selecting the correct shoe to a greater extent for women but for men is also relevant. It is considered the best these shoes:
- convenient and comfortable (not pressing the foot and the leg, but it wasn't too free);
- should not be high and thin heels – the better of 4-5 cm;
- use insoles-orthotics;
- it's not worth to continue to walk in flat shoes.
Choose the correct operation
The question of job change is not always easy to resolve, even if it comes to health. But if the risk of varicose veins of the veins of the legs are too big or have appeared the first signs of the disease, it is best to adhere to these preventive recommendations:
- Eliminate or reduce to a minimum the hard work associated with exercise on the abdominal wall and lower limbs.
- Not a lot of time in a continuous way (2-3 hours) hold upright or sitting.
- Are contraindicated courses, lifting weights and other weights, water sports.
The basic rule – working conditions must be such that the blood in the legs is not stagnant and does not have an excess of pressure on the walls of the veins. Most venous stasis is expressed, when the feet are vertically arranged feet down, and the calf muscles fixed (when a person is standing or sitting in one position).
To be active, but remember to vacation
The lack of physical exercise (sedentary lifestyle) – encourages the development of varicose veins in the legs. Then you need to fight:
- do exercises in the morning;
- do not be lazy to walk – walking in open air;
- engage in physical activity or sports, related to exercises for the legs and stop (walking, jogging, swimming, cycling, aerobics).
But overwork is not worth it. Do not forget to vacation – sleep about 8 hours a night, with alternating periods of activity with periods of rest. Posterior muscles of the leg play a role in pump that pushes the blood in the veins in the direction opposite to the force of gravity (from bottom to top). The cargo, which they have, very big. Dealing with it can only muscle, that have restored the reserves of energy after a busy day.
Normal weight and eat right
The lower limbs obese people, experience the highest loads. Accordingly, the weight reduction – it is the prevention of varicose veins, as well as decrease the daily tension of the veins of the legs. For this you can use several different methods, but do not necessarily adhere to these dietary recommendations:
- Limit fatty foods of animal origin (meat, pork, duck, fat-free sour cream, eggs) and digestible carbohydrates (sweets, white bread, biscuits, pastries, cakes).
- Refuse of spices and savoury.
- Eat a moderate amount of liquid and reduce to a minimum the salt.
- Enrich the diet of food of vegetable origin: fruit, vegetables, oils (linseed oil, olive oil, sunflower oil).
Say "no" to bad habits
The most common bad habits – smoking of tobacco and the abuse of alcohol is – in and of itself does not cause varicose veins of the veins, but in combination with other predisposing factors that contribute to its onset and progression. So people at risk should give up on them. Do it yourself is not easy. When it is necessary to consult a doctor-expert in narcology.
Do not be lazy to make material of gymnastics
Any activity of people that have the fund for the varicose veins on the legs, should be combined with the periods of discharge. All you need to do 5-10 minutes of pay for the performance of simple leg exercises at least 1-2 times during the day and definitely in the evening after its end. For this does not need an office or special conditions.
Most of the exercises in material gymnastics you can perform directly in the workplace:
- In the sitting position, perform 10-20 flexor et extensor movements alternately with each foot, in this way, the muscles of the part of a group of tibia more reduced and relaxed.
- If you have the time seated, get up and walk, better on the stairs. You can walk even on flat ground, simulating walking the stairs – run a step, from heel to toe, to the muscles of the calf are well diminished and laid back.
- In the upright position, standing on the toes, stay in this position for a few seconds and sit back on your heels. Follow these steps first with both feet at the same time (multiple times), and then, alternately, each foot, so that when the right rises up on the tip, the left was the heel, and vice versa.
- If there is the possibility to sit or lie down and place the foot on some support for occupying the position above of the basin (for example, laid the legs on the chair, on the table, on the wall).
Material gymnastics, designed to prevent the varicose veins of the legs, really basic and productive. All you need – do not be lazy to do these exercises.
Make a draining massage to the feet
The meaning of haurientes massage to the legs and improving the flow of blood to the superficial and deep veins. Do it yourself themselves, at least in the evening after a day of work, and if there is the possibility, and on her course.
Elementary techniques haurientes self-massage:
- Sit back, put the foot to the sole at the level of the surface, on which are seated, for she was slightly bent in the knee (less than 90).
- The rubbing movements massage the skin and muscles in the direction of the fingers of the foot to the knee iuncturam for the entire circumference.
- Grasp the foot with both hands, in this way, for large fingers are on the back, and all the others – on the plantar surface.
- Crush the segment that bend the fingers, and gradually move them upwards during the tibia at the knee iuncturam. When you move to a new phase without problems squeeze for a few seconds, then relax the hands and move them over.
- Squeeze the fingers brush the side surface of the heel. Compress the fabric with your fingers for a few seconds, relaxing the fingers, move them upward to the sides of the tendon of Achilles and of the muscles of the calf towards the knee.
- Pat the leg with both hands in the direction from the bottom to the top.
The total duration of the session haurientes of self-massage is about 10 minutes. After him, it is advisable to perform the exercise ˮbirchˮ (for 3-5 minutes, place the leg as high as you can, and better in the vertical with heels up).
Wear compression stockings
Special products of compression stockings it is best to strengthen loose or changed the veins of the legs, and do not allow their extension. This method of prevention is better to act, the more you use individually selected compression hosiery. Wear it every day before getting out of bed after sleep. At the end of the work day, when the load on the foot will be lower, products to turn.
What to look for when you choose to compression stockings:
- Must be comfortable for daily use. The products meet all the requirements – are thin (depending on the type of nylon tights), in a uniform and properly tightening the fabric, looks elegant and durable. Best place to buy hosiery of this type, compared to the normal elastic bandages or crassus knitwear.
- To choose the right product. This can be tights, stockings and socks.
- Pay attention in class compression – the force with which the mesh compresses the fabric. For prevention you can use a quote of hosiery (class zero compression) or therapeutic, but only the first compression class.
Sometimes need medication
Pharmacological prevention of varicose veins is indicated for people of high-risk groups (with a lot of conditions for the expansion of the veins of the legs) or with the typical "venous events" (which are described in the section "Decide if you are in need of the prevention – testimony").
Remember: creams and gels have fast, but the short-term effect, and the pill began to work slowly, but continuously. The drugs you can use every day, and medicines internal receive – in the form of prior courses 2 times a year, lasting about a month.
Forecast for the prevention
In the table reflection prediction efficiency can prevent the development of varicose veins of the veins of the legs, taking into account the risk of the onset of the disease.
| Predisposition to varicose veins | The percentage of cases, if the comprehensive prevention | That will be without a complete prevention |
|---|---|---|
| Low | Less than 5% – easy varicose veins | Sick 95%: mild – 45%, medium – 50% |
| Reasonable | 30%: of these, lightweight and form – 20%, the average severity – 10% | Sick 99%: the average severity – 65%, expresso – 34% |
| High | 50%: medium and light form – 40%, heavy – 10% | You get sick all: mean severity – 60%, for heavy – 40% |
If you do not want to hurt varicose veins – do prevention!