Varicose veins can be affected not only veins in the legs – similar changes are possible in the veins:
- of the esophagus and stomach;
- of the pelvic floor in women;
- left seed power cord and testicular in men.
But the reasons for the development of each of these varieties of varicose veins, completely different. Therefore, the prevention radically different.
This article describes only those activities that prevent the most frequent type of varicose veins – the defeat of the lower limbs. In addition to the fact that it occupies 70% of the structure of morbidity, only the prevention is actually effective.
Integrated approach to the prevention of the development of varicose veins, diseases of the feet implies:
- Decide on the need for prevention – indications
- Note shoes
- Choose the correct operation
- Be active, but remember holiday
- Normalize the weight and feed
- Say "no" bad habits
- Do not be lazy to do gymnastics download
- Make a draining massage on the feet
- Use mesh compression
- Sometimes, you need of medicines
- Forecast when prevention
Prevention of any disease, including varicose veins of the legs, nothing more easy in comparison with the treatment. But if she practice correctly and in full, may or may not allow the occurrence of the disease, or to prevent serious consequences.
Only the fruit of a work on yourself can give the maximum effect. Especially is this rule important for people at high risk of developing varicose veins in the legs. The prevention of this disease must become for them an integral part of lifestyle, a daily habit, very nice. In fact, nothing complicated no.
In all matters relating to the prevention of varicose veins disease of the lower limbs, please contact the vascular surgeon or phlebologist.
Decide on the need for prevention – indications
The main group of risk of development of varicose veins of the legs, poor in specific prevention, is to such people:
- Have hereditary predisposition – close relatives with this pathology.
- Women, evil dishormonal disorders of ovarian.
- Pregnant women and generated.
- Related to heavy physical work, long-term and are residing in the property standing or sitting position (typical of the occupation, and sedentary lifestyle).
- Lovers walking high heels, take a hot bath, sauna, spicy foods and alcoholic beverages.
- The person, with the presence of features ˮvenarumˮ of complaints: swelling of the feet in the region of the ankles, at night, spasms and pain in the calf muscles, the severity of the feet, suspension of the venous figure, the vascular mesh.
The main risk factors of varicose veins, disease, hereditary predisposition, pregnancy, and dishormonal violation of women. All the other prerequisites itself is not able to cause the disease, but to organize the basic, accelerate its appearance and heavier.
Note shoes
The question of correct selection of shoes, to a larger extent for women, but for men, it is also relevant. It is considered the best of such shoes:
- convenient and comfortable (not to davila the foot and shin, but was not very free);
- should not be high thin heels – best 4-5 cm;
- use insoles-arch support;
- it's not worth to continue walking in shoes shallow.
Choose the correct operation
The question of changing jobs is not always easy to resolve, even when it comes to health. But if the risk of occurrence of varicose veins in the legs too great, or there were signs of disease, it is best to adhere to these preventive recommendations:
- Eliminate or minimize the hard work associated with physical exercise for the abdominal wall and lower limbs.
- Not too long continuously (over 2-3 hours) to be held in motionless standing or sitting position.
- Are counter-indicated classes of weight and other weights sports.
As a general rule, the working conditions should be such that the blood on the feet do not stagnate and do not exert excessive pressure on the walls of the veins. More venous stasis expressed, when the feet are arranged vertically feet down, and the muscles of the leg, stationary (when the person is worth it or sitting in the same position).
Be active, but remember holiday
Physical inactivity (sedentary lifestyle) – contributes to the development of varicose veins disease the veins of the legs. For this, she needs to fight:
- make the morning exercises;
- do not be lazy to walk – walk to the open air;
- do physical exercise or sports-related exercises for the legs and stop (walking, running, swimming, cycling, aerobics).
But exaggerated it's not worth. Do not forget to leisure – and sleep about 8 hours per day, alternating periods of activity with periods of rest. The muscles of the rear surface of the leg to play the role of a pump which propels the blood through the veins, in the opposite direction to the force of gravity (from bottom to top). The load, which they are experiencing, is very large. To deal with it can only the muscles, which restored the reserves of energy after a busy day.
Normalize the weight and feed
The lower limbs of obese, experiencing high load. Therefore, weight reduction is the prevention of varicose veins, as it reduces the routine work, the tension of the veins in the legs. For this, you can use different methods, but be sure to adhere to these dietary recommendations:
- Limit the fatty foods of animal origin (meat of pork, duck fat, cream milk, eggs) and digestible carbohydrate (this pone, white bread, biscuits, pies, cakes).
- Eliminate the use of spices and flavorful dishes.
- Eat moderate amount of liquid and reduce the salt.
- Enrich the diet of vegetables: vegetables, fruits, oils-linseed, olive, sunflower).
Say "no" bad habits
The most common are the bad habits – Smoking and the abuse of alcohol by itself does not cause varicose veins, but in conjunction with other provoking factors, they contribute to the onset and progression of the disease. Therefore, the people of the risk group should abandon them. Do it yourself is not easy. When necessary, seek help from a doctor-the expert in narcology.
Do not be lazy to do gymnastics download
Any activity of people that have pre-requirements for the varicose expansion of the veins in the legs, should be combined with periods of discharge. Everything you need – from 5 to 10 minutes to dedicate to the execution of simple exercises for the feet, at least, 1 to 2 times per working day and, necessarily, in the evening, after its completion. For this, you don't need an office or special conditions.
Most of the exercises of the materials of gym, you can perform directly in the workplace:
- In the sitting position, do 10-20 flexor et extensor movements each time the foot, therefore, to the muscles of the back of a group of leg maximum decreased and relaxed.
- If you are a long time sitting, getting up and walking, it is best to climb the stairs. You can go also for a flat terrain, mimicking the floor of the stair – step, step with the heel to the toe, to the muscles of the leg as well decreased and relaxed.
- In the standing position, stay on the toes, stay in this posture for a few seconds and come down on the heel. Follow these steps, first, with the two feet at the same time (multiple times), and then alternately on each leg, so that when the right rises on the toe of the foot, the left was in the heel, and vice-versa.
- If possible, sit or lie down and put your feet in some kind of support for a position above, that the taz (for example, puts his feet on the backrest of the chair, on the table, on the wall).
Download gym, used for the prevention of varicose veins and the legs, indeed elementary and the number of points in each. All you need to do not get lazy to do these exercises.
Make a draining massage on the feet
The meaning haurientes massage to the feet – to improve the output of blood to the superficial and the deep veins. Do for themselves are, at least, in the evening, after a day of work, and if there is a possibility, and its duration.
Elementary techniques haurientes self-massage:
- Sit down, place your foot from the outsole at the level of the surface on which you are sitting, for it was slightly bent in the knee joint (90).
- Rubbing movements massage the skin and muscles in the direction of the toes and the genu iuncturam of the whole circumference.
- Hold the foot with both hands, so that the thumbs are on the back, and all of the other on the plantar surface.
- Twist or compress the segment that bend the fingers, and gradually move them up to the motion of the leg for genu iuncturam. When you browse to a new area, gently squeeze the pump for a few seconds, then relax the arm and move them to the top.
- Tighten your fingers brush lateral sides of the heel. Press the fabric with your fingers for a few seconds, relaxing the fingers, move them up on the side of the Achilles tendons and calf toward the knee.
- Pat the legs with both hands in the direction from bottom to top.
Total duration of the session haurientes self-massage is about 10 minutes. After him, it is advisable to perform the exercise ˮbirchˮ (3-5 minutes to position the feet as high as possible, and the best jumps in the upward vertical).
Use mesh compression
Products special compression mesh fabrics it is better to strengthen loose or varicose changed veins of the legs, and also do not allow its expansion. This method of prevention is the better it works, the more you use individually chosen compression Jersey. Use it daily, before you get out of bed after a good night's sleep. After a day of work, when the load on the leg will be the lowest, the product needs to be removed.
On what to pay attention to the choice of compression of knitted fabrics:
- It should be comfortable for everyday use. Modern products meet all the requirements – they are fine (by type of nylon tights), is uniform and well tighten tissue, look stylish and durable. Best buy of meshes, of a type that the normal bandages or crassus meshes.
- Choose the product. This can be tights, stockings and socks.
- Note the degree of compression – the force with which meshes compresses the tissue. For prevention, you can use a preventive mesh (zero-class compression) or therapeutic, but only the first compression class.
Sometimes, you need of medicines
Medical prevention varicose veins shows that people outside of the high-risk group (with a series of pre-requirements for the expansion of the veins in the legs) or have the characteristic of "venous manifestations" (as they are described in the section "Deciding on the need for prevention – indications").
Remember: ointments and gels are more rapid, but short-term effects, and the tablets will begin to act slowly, but is long-lasting. Therefore, the location of drugs can be used daily, and medicines internal reception, in the form of prevention courses 2 times per year, with duration of about a month.
Forecast when prevention
In the table reflects the forecast of efficiency possible prevention of the development of varicose veins in the legs, based on the risk of occurrence of disease.
| The predisposition to varicose veins | The percentage of people who, if prevention full | That is without prevention full |
|---|---|---|
| Low | Less than 5% – easy to of varicose veins | Dictatorship 95%: mild forms – 45%, moderate – 50% |
| Price | 30%: mild forms of 20%, the average weight – 10% | Dictatorship 99%: average weight – 65%, express – 34% |
| High | 50%: medium-sized, and easy ways to 40%, heavy – 10% | Getting sick is everything: the average weight of 60%, major – 40% |
If you don't want the pain of varicose veins – make prevention!