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10 Health Fitness Tips
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What To Consider Before Having Varicose Vein Procedures
Before considering having a procedure done to surgically treat your varicose veins, keep in mind that most varicose vein problems can be treated without resorting to an invasive operation. In fact, if your varicose veins do not respond to the following commonly prescribed treatments for varicose veins then it is possible that the varicose veins are a symptom of a much more serious problem such as obesity, impending stroke or a heart condition. This is why it is so important for you to try elevation and compression treatments before you resort to surgery.
Varicose veins develop as a result of gravitational forces. This may just be due to simple aging. To counteract this doctors may prescribe that the legs be elevated above the heart for a prescribed period of time during the day in order to help the blood trapped in the veins return to the heart for oxygenation.
In addition to the elevation of the legs most doctors will prescribe a regimen of walking or aerobic exercise as well as the application of a compression bandage that winds around the affected area. This helps decrease the volume of blood trapped in the legs and over time makes the veins shrink.
So, before you spend a lot of money on an operation, make sure you try the above solutions first as both elevation and compression treatments have a higher success rate and show quicker results than surgery.
The most common surgical procedure used to correct varicose veins is called sclerotherapy. This is a procedure that is used to decrease the visibility of spider veins that mostly occur on the legs but can occur on
other places of the body as well. Before having this operation you should also be aware that it could be very uncomfortable because basically an irritant is injected into the veins to induce an inflammatory response. This causes the veins to shrink. You should also be aware that sclerotherapy only works on tiny veins and not larger ones.
You should also realize that one quarter of patients that do receive sclerotherapy also end up with a hyper pigmentation on their legs around the injection sites, which may be as objectionable to look at as the varicose veins.
You might also experience a phenomenon known as vein matting, which means that tiny clusters of veins around the site of the injection area could turn blue. Unfortunately this is because sometimes the attempt to remove one varicose vein creates several smaller ones. Sometimes these veins can be treated with another injection but the success rate of this treatment is very low.
If you do opt for sclerotherapy keep in mind that your legs may be red, discolored or bruised for a couple of weeks after the injections. In fact your legs may look worse than they did in the first place so don't get this operation with the expectation that you will look better in a bathing suit after a few days. Like most plastic surgeries, sclerotherapy is not a quick fix for varicose veins.
About the Author
******* (c) 2005 Kelly Altodona - All Rights Reserved
Kelly Altodona is a cosmetic surgery freelance author.
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