Varicose veins are characterized by uneven enlargement of the veins of the legs, the appearance of the nodes on them and their length.The disease is gradually developing, characterized by a chronic course.
Women with varicose veins are three times more often than men.Among the stronger sexes, the faces are prone to this disease, who love sports, with maximum leg load distribution: football, tennis, basketball.
Why is the veins expand
There are three types of veins in the tissues of the legs: superficial, deep, connecting superficial and deep veins.Each vein is a hollow tube along which blood flows from the tissues of the legs to the heart.Muscle cells do not exist in the walls of the veins, so the vein cannot contract to raise blood.This task is performed by skeletal muscles of the legs.And the valves are located inside the veins - they close their underwear when reduced skeletal muscles, preventing the opposite blood flow.Each contraction of the muscles "pushes" the blood above.
When the valves flashes are loose, part of the blood flows back, stagnated in the vein, pressing it on its walls, gradually stretching them.The lamps of the veins widen, its wall stretches.This is the beginning of varicose veins.
Factors of Provocation of Disease:
- Heritage - With a congenital lack of collagen fibers, the vein wall is less elastic and prone to stretching.
- Blood stagnation in the legs with excess weight and obesity, shoes wearing more than 3-4 inches of heels, which are prolonged for a long time with hair and sellers, sales, chefs, lecturers, or office staff.
- Hormonal background changes: Increased progesterone content in pregnant women makes the walls soft and stretching, so the risk of varicose veins during baby's bearing increases dramatically.
The first signs of varicose veins - how not to miss
Alarm from varicose veins is considered at the moment when vascular stars or vascular nets - reticular varicose veins appear on the skin of the feet.This is not a cosmetic defect, but the onset of the disease!
At the same time or after a while, the second group of the mark joins - the feeling of gravity in the legs, after prolonging the legs of the legs or sitting on a chair.When a person begins to walk, the feeling of gravity decreases: the skeleton muscles are raised higher in the blood and the stretching of the vein walls is reduced.
Further development of the disease is manifested by swelling of the legs - this is a trace of socks, one leg thickening, on the other, with visual examination.
Later, there is pain in the calf muscles, fatigue, dry skin and its pigmentation, prolonged varicose nodes, and trophic ulcers.
When did you contact a vascular surgeon?
When the first vascular nets and stars appear, you should consult a specialist and, if necessary, perform ultrasound examination of the veins of the lower extremities and perform varicose veins on the veins.The sooner the diagnosis of varicose veins is diagnosed, the more chances it will stop at the initial stage.