Varicose veins of the feet is known to the people of long ago: this diagnosis put their patients to another one of the "fathers" of modern medicine: hippocrates, galen and paracelsus. But the most wide spread of the disease has received in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first continues to conquer new positions: according to data from the world health organization, in our days, the signs of development of the pathology is to a greater or lesser extent are present in 66% of men and more than 80% of women living in developed countries. The predominance among the female population over the male is explained by the fact that nature deposited in the weak sex responsibilities of parenting and the birth of children, as well as the propensity of the beautiful half of humanity to the elegant high-heeled shoes. The current methods of treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities to facilitate the state, without the necessity of resorting to a complex intervention.
Why is it necessary to treat varicose veins
Varicose veins – a disease of people "standing" professions: traders, hairdressers, and printing workers, of surgeons and of all whose professional duties require a lot of time of the static load on the lower extremities. It is precisely in conditions of static load are weakened venous valves that regulate the flux and reflux of the blood in that area of the body. As a result, the blood in the veins stagnant and thick, stretching and deformation of the wall of the vessels, creating the conditions for the occurrence of varicose veins.
The process develops slowly, and at the beginning of the sick person, considered to have no varicose veins in the legs, if he does not give account of himself to strong swelling and work under the skin bumpy shots. But that image is characteristic only for the implementation phase, when the only way of restoring the normal appearance of the lower extremities becomes the scalpel of a surgeon. However, the main risk of varicose veins not in the sense that your legs ache, swell, and lose the attractive, covered coliseum nodosum vessel, which protrude above the surface of the skin.
Causing a stagnation in the blood flow, varicose veins causes the appearance, in the vessels of the legs blood clots – dense clots formed by erythrocytes (red blood cells). The passage of clots of blood spread throughout the body, entering the lungs, the heart, the brain, blocking the vessels that supply your blood, and leading to thromboembolic disease – vascular obstruction of the body, the result can be devastating pathology is:
- Myocardial infarction – death of tissues of the heart muscle due to lack of blood irrigation;
- The stroke acute disorder of cerebral circulation that causes the death of brain cells;
- Gangrene – tissue necrosis.
Attention!
Any of the diseases described above, has the consequence of, as a minimum, severe disability, and a maximum of death. Therefore, run the varicose veins can not in any case.
Consult a physician a patient you must appearance of the first signs of the disease:
- Fatigue of the legs;
- Pulling pain in the legs, especially at the end of the day, or after physical activity;
- Chills – leg as if you "do";
- Small vascular veins and "stars", the speakers of the surface of the skin of the feet;
- Seizures foot of the muscles, usually in the evening);
- The swelling of the legs.
When timely measures adopted modern methods of treating varicose veins in the legs that allow you to avoid the progression of the disease and to reverse the process. Now this can be done without resorting to the very traumatic surgery, which before were the only way to solve the problem. The doctors know the multitude of procedures of treatment of varicose veins, able to provide the possibility of returning to the narrative of the sedentary life.
The solutions of treatment of varicose veins
Often, patients who suffer from developed a form of varicose vessels of the legs, especially women, fearing the operation and that remain after the scars, which brought a visit to the doctor until the last possibility, bringing the situation to the extreme. However, medicine, like the rest of the knowledge industry, in constant evolution, and to the daughters and granddaughters no longer do you have to fear, that the varicose veins will be given the treatment of the same, as mothers and grandmothers. The specialists have developed many effective therapies – bezoperatsionnaya or of the so-called minimally invasive, that is to say, do not require a deep surgery. Among them the most popular have acquired procedures, such as:
- Sclerotherapy;
- Laser treatment;
- Radiofrequency ablation of the venous vessels;
- Microphlebectomy.
On each of these methods of treatment of varicose veins modern techniques should count more.
Sclerotherapy
For the procedure, performed in the stage of varicose veins, when amazed at the superficial veins, but have not been affected deep, medication, called a sclerosant, is inserted inside the affected veins varicosasom of vienna. This is done with the help of a syringe or micro-catheter – a conduit of smaller diameter of the cross section of a human hair, which the doctor pricked the skin at the place where under sweep surprised the veins varicosasom the glass. The celebration of the manipulation does not cause unpleasant sensations, only sometimes accompanied by a feeling of slight burning. Sclerosant adheres to the wall of the vein from the inside, making your system of the circulation of the blood, as a result of it dries out, decreases and ceases to disturb the patient, is lost with the surface of the skin. Therefore, when using the method is achieved not only therapeutic, but also a cosmetic effect.
The procedure lasts around half an hour, during which the doctor makes multiple injection in a vein through a puncture in the skin. Normally, the course of treatment by the method of sclerotherapy is not more than three of these procedures, but sometimes, depending on the state of the patient, the doctor decides to increase its number. From one to the other the visit to a doctor should spend at least a week.
Before the visit to the doctor patient must take a shower and within 2 days before him, and 2 days after you comply with some limitations to ensure the success of the treatment of the data by the method of:
- Not smoking and not consuming alcohol;
- Refuse to receive blood thinning medications;
- Not to do waxing and do not apply on the skin cosmetics;
- Do not enter in the clearance of hunger – to eat for an hour and a half before the beginning of the procedure.
Complications caused by the method of sclerotherapy usually does not occur, but sometimes it happens that:
- The itching at the site of injection, which disappears after 2 hours after the injection;
- The pain can last up to three days;
- Peeling of the skin – it stops after 10 to 12 days.
Very rare (1 case per thousand) it can cause an inflammation of the vein – thrombophlebitis.
At the end of the course, the treatment of this method, it is necessary to:
- During the week to avoid the intensification of the pressures in the feet.
- Two weeks of not taking a hot bath and hot water shower;
- One and a half-two months not to go to the bathroom;
- Not be and not be walking for a long time.
Important!
The procedure of sclerotherapy should be performed by a medical professional, therefore, it is necessary to seek help only in health facilities. At the end of the course should medical observation in the period of one month.
The laser
Laser therapy is another modern method of treatment of varicose veins without surgery. Among its advantages we can mention the following:
- The treatment of the veins of a laser beam requires no incisions and leaves no trace on the surface of the skin of the feet;
- During the process is virtually pain – enough under local anesthesia;
- The procedure takes only a few minutes;
- The recovery of the sick after such a shedding of the operation takes place very quickly.
The laser generates radiation at certain wave lengths, which, passing through the venous blood, generates heat and seals" sick bowl in its interior. Accordingly, it is excluded from the blood circulation and the blood flow to the tissues continues to deep veins and collateral – side of the tiny blood vessels. Assuming the burden of work, will begin to develop and some days reach the size remote of the vessel.
The procedure happens under local anesthesia by injection into a vein through a puncture in the skin of the leg of a laser optical fiber, at the tip of which there is a lens microscope, allows the dispersion of the uniform beam coagulation (sealing) of vienna. The manipulation is performed for 30 minutes, after which the patient can immediately return to the narrative of the sedentary life.
The contraindications to the application of treatment of varicose veins with laser method are pregnancy and lactation. Also the procedure is contraindicated in case of the worsening of co-morbidities, the tendency to the formation of blood clots, inflammation of the skin in the area of application of the laser, under the coagulation of the blood.
Radiofrequency ablation
This method bezoperatsionnogo the treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities began to be applied relatively recently – only about ten years is a player. Received wide dissemination in the united states and countries of western europe, russia, the same method that arrived three years ago, and until that is applied infrequently. The main reason for this – the high cost of equipment necessary for the completion of the survey and of the therapy.
This procedure gives a wonderful effect in the treatment of varicose veins of the veins in the legs. Your valued physicians and patients. The method is virtually the same as with the laser – through an incision in the skin, the doctor inserts a patient into the lumen of the vessel of the radio-frequency waveguide, which seals the vessel through the radiation of radio waves. Excluded from the blood of vienna, with the time, is replaced by connective tissue. Contraindication, in addition to those listed for laser treatment is the presence in the patient of the atherosclerosis and a strong degree of obesity.
The positive side of the use of this method in comparison with the normal operation of varicose veins of the legs are the following:
- Much smaller of the frustration of the sick person.
- Resistant effectiveness – the positive effect of a method is kept for several years.
- The low probability of complications – according to the statistics, is that they occur only in three patients out of every hundred who received the procedure.
Important! Great importance has the experience of the doctor performing the manipulation of the method. The patient is recommended to pay special attention to this side of the issue before undergoing treatment.
Micro-phlebectomy
It is a modern minimally invasive procedure, represents the microsurgery operation, in which the doctor removes the patient a glass beneath the skin through a microscopic incision with the help of a hook. Following surprised the veins varicosasom plot is short, and the healthy parts of the vessel to be stapled.
After the operation on the patient's skin are still very small scars which cannot be seen with the naked eye. Sometimes, in place of the incision appears a bruise, disappearing within two weeks. In the course of rehabilitation (1-2 months – deadlines depend on the amount of surgery for varicose veins) patient must wear the compression garment, and henceforth, to avoid heavy physical exertion. In the rest of the patient had undergone the operation, you may carry the usual way of life.
Without prejudice to the timely reference, the modern medicine offers many ways to treat varicose veins of the veins which will help you to solve this problem with minimal harm to the patient. To make a correct choice of method will help the patient of a doctor after the completion of the relevant research.