Varicose veins

Varicose veins's disease overview

Disease Varicose veins , also known as varicose veins of the lower limb today are considered as a disease in addition to hypertension and diabetes. The road when the frequency of disease increases rapidly in the population, especially the incidence of women is 3 times higher than that of men. This is the pathology of the lower limb vein system when the blood from the foot returns to the heart is hindered, causing stagnation of circulation in the lower limb, in the long run will greatly affect the health and quality of life of the patient.

Causes of Varicose veins's disease

Varicose veins are the consequence of the inflammation of the vein, the vein reflux of the vein, hindering the blood from the leg back to the heart causing stagnation of circulation, veins from which gradually dilate enlarged, then after That will lead to venous and venous thrombosis complications.

Symptoms of Varicose veins's disease

In the early stages, the patient often complains about symptoms such as a feeling of severe legs, sometimes feet at the end of the day, calf pain, cramps or a sense of numbness in the lower limbs. .

In the later stage of the disease, physicians can observe the venous buns that are clearly zigzag under the skin. Skin ulcers due to lack of nutrition, venous inflammation or deep vein thrombosis may be seen in severe cases. At this time, despite being actively treated, these symptoms only relieve slowly and difficult to heal.

The disease manifests and progresses more severe in pregnant women. The reason for this condition is that when the uterus is enlarged, it should be more compression of the vein of the heart and the hormonal changes during pregnancy to worsen varicose veins.

People at risk for Varicose veins's disease

Adults over 50 years old, workers have to stand and sit a lot, wear tight -feet clothes, wear high heels, women are pregnant many times, use birth control pills or families with people with people The disease are all subjects of risk of varicose veins.

Diagnostic measures for Varicose veins's disease

Varicose veins today are easily diagnosed with clinical symptoms suggesting such as tension, numbness in the lower limbs, calf pain, edema, lower limb, floating veins Clear zigzag under the skin and venous system ultrasound.

Lower venous color ultrasound helps identify and assess the degree of veins, detect the presence of deep vein thrombosis thereby suggesting that the doctor has a surgical decision. For patients or not.

Varicose veins's disease treatments

Lower varicose veins can be effectively treated if detected at an early stage when the disease is still mild, no complications and patients persevere in coordinating good treatment with physicians.

Varicose veins under the early stage have a good response to changing working habits and activities such as limiting standing or sitting for a long position, wearing spacious clothes, changing diet with nutrition Supplementing fiber and vitamin C to enhance the endurance of vessel walls, prevent inflammation complications into vessel, use drugs enhancing venous tone and medical socks in accordance with the instructions.

In more severe cases at the late stage of the disease, the above -mentioned interventions should be replaced by other invasive surgical methods such as venous fibrosis, venous burning with high waves. frequency or laser, paste into a vein with biological glue to bring higher treatment effect, shorten the hospital stay. However, the disadvantage of these methods is that the cost of treatment is much higher than the non -intervention measures, so it cannot be easily applied to all patients with varicose veins.

Surgery to remove venous venous removal is the final treatment plan, thoroughly treating the disease with a high success rate of over 95%.

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