Prevention of varicose veins

Varicose veins is a serious disease that can be cured completely by surgery. It is accompanied by pain, swelling in the legs and the appearance of blue vascular network of the skin, which creates an obvious cosmetic defect.

It is better to follow preventive measures and not to provoke the emergence of the disease. In this case, the feet should always be light, beautiful and well-groomed. Preventive measures help prevent not only varicose veins, but also other serious diseases, such as arthritis or connective tissue.

Food

A balanced and healthy nutrition has an important role in the prevention and treatment of varicose veins and other diseases. Good nutrition helps to saturate the body with beneficial vitamins and minerals, strengthen immunity and reduce the risk of Developing various infectious diseases.

To prevent varicose veins, it is recommended to observe the following instructions about diet:

• There are at least 5 times a day, small portions. Breakfast should be the most dense and greasy, in the evening it is better to give preference to vegetables, protein foods.
• The menu for the day should be balanced, that is, you need to consume adequate amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, you can't limit yourself to a certain item.
• It is recommended to cook without adding oil, which is steamed, boiled, fried and baked. Vegetable oil, add to salads.
• Varicose veins is useful to eat foods rich in fiber, these products positively affect the elasticity of blood vessels. These are fruits and vegetables, and also bran and cereals.
• Varicose veins of the right foods that contain the following vitamins: E, C, P, and copper. They are found in vegetables, fruits, berries, nuts, fish and meat.

To reduce the risk of varicose veins is recommended to remove or reduce the following products in the diet:

• Fatty and fried, with a large number of salt and spices. Such foods can cause the appearance of atherosclerosis and the subsequent complications, and the swelling;
• Alcohol, coffee and strong tea. These drinks dilates blood vessels in the muscles, frequent use can cause varicose veins.
• Sweets that are consumed regularly, lead to overweight and, consequently, stagnant processes in the body tissues and blood vessels. In addition, the extra weight creates an increased load on the foot.

Often the cause of varicose veins is becoming overweight, that is why more and more people are susceptible to the disease. To reduce the risk of health problems, you should try to change your diet and lose weight. In this case, it reduces the pressure on the feet, muscles, joints and blood vessels no longer suffer from excessive stress.

Exercises

To reduce the risk of stagnant processes in the tissues and blood vessels, helps in regular exercise. Each person is recommended to start the day with morning exercises, this exercise will help Wake up, warm up, thereby reducing the risk of embarrassing injuries, but also to strengthen the body and improve it. It is also recommended to do yoga, and the heavy sports when varicose veins are contraindicated.

If a person works all day sitting, several times per shift to do the warm-up — five minutes. Such exercises will help to disperse the blood, not allowing it to thicken and stay down, when the muscles and vessels come in tone and in general began to decline.

The following exercises are very charging at work:

• Stepping, moving the foot from heel to toe, or do the exercises sitting down, pausing at the top and gently stretching the muscles.
• On your toes and hold for a few seconds.
• Sitting need to put the foot on the heel and the force pressing imaginary pedals;
• Sitting in a chair with a flat back, you need to put your feet so that your knees are bent at a 90 degree angle. In this position, marching, raising their knees high.
• You need to sit on a chair and straighten your back, legs bent at the knees. Jamming his feet with effort, imagining that they are trying to grow back.
• Sitting in a chair and put his feet in front of you, you have to press the whole foot on the floor, maximally tensing all the muscles.

Home-education is more suitable for the following exercises:

• Walk in place with high lifting hips. You need to keep your back straight and move smoothly in place lifting knees as high as possible. If you are not sure, can keep his balance, one hand to hold the rod.
• You need to put the book on the floor and stand on his toes so that your heels hang. To keep balance, lower and lift the heel.
• Highly effective against varicose veins is known to all sports birch.
• Lie on your back, legs bent at the knees and pulled her to his chest, then sharply straighten your legs and hold this position for a few seconds, then return to the starting position.
• Very effective stretching exercises. You can perform tilts down and straight knees. Or sit on the floor, legs dissolve in hand and straightened, to carry out the bending of each leg and between them.

Packaging

Support socks is a good way to prevent varicose veins. It is durable, eliminate the appearance of swelling and pain at the end of the day. Linen can be purchased at a pharmacy or orthopedic store and order via the Internet. It is made of a special technology, thanks to which underwear to pack the legs more at the bottom and weaker on top of that can prevent the stagnation of fluid in the bottom and push it upwards.

The following people are recommended to wear compression underwear:

• Professional athletes and those who regularly train in the gym.
• People who work in the office and spend a lot of time sitting;
• Loaders and people who regularly use the force of gravity;
• People who spend all day on their feet;
• Women who often wear high-heeled shoes;
• Those whose age is more than 50 years.
• Pregnant women and after childbirth;
• People who are overweight.

Very important to properly select and use compression stockings. There are three kinds of clothes: socks, stockings and tights. In addition, flax is divided into curative and preventive. Healthy people do not use medical linen because it is too much to tighten the legs, and pick up it needs a doctor.

Socks and tights for the prevention of need to dress up everyday and get dressed in the morning, before getting out of bed. It is very important to use Jersey, so as not to damage it. Correctly selected size tights fit well, never pressured and do not slip.

In our time, orthopedic stores offer a wide range of compression tights, there are even models for the pregnant woman. They are made with new techniques that can make the product not only useful, but also beautiful. Tights for women are presented in different colors, you can also buy transparent designs, with beautiful patterns.

Procedures

There are a lot of procedures that help in prevention of varicose veins or in the early stages of the disease. But no physical therapy only to be used when the visiting experts. A doctor can determine whether it you to visit the physiotherapy and which is better. Often varicose veins prescribed treatment press.

At home prevention of varicose veins in the legs, and swelling and pain is possible with the help of water procedures. The shower is powerful tool, which allows you to tone blood vessels, improve microcirculation in the tissues, make the skin to the outer skin healthy and young. If you have already started varicose veins need to leave the feet up to the ankles.

It is very important to perform the procedure. You can do this, you can sling legs in the shower or fill the two trays with water, which, in turn, lower the foot. You must comply with the following rules:

• The water should be nice, cold, but not icy. Or hot, but not boiling water.
• To start the procedure, with warm water to keep the feet need 2-3 minutes.
• Footprint to move in the cold water for 5-10 seconds.
• The second manipulation is not more than 4 times, total procedure time should not exceed 15 minutes.
• The end of the procedure, you need cold water.

Folk remedies

Many patients prefer the methods of traditional medicine for the prevention of varicose veins. Folk remedies can be very effective, they help reduce the unpleasant symptoms at the end of the working day and improve the condition of the foot.

Prevention of varicose veins in the legs can be carried out using the following means:

• Baths herbs to fully relax the legs after a hard day's work. Prepare a warm bath, brew three tablespoons of chamomile flowers pour two cups of boiling water and leave for at least 60 minutes to brew under the lid. In an hour you can decant the decoction, and pour into the tub with warm water, put your feet ankles and hold for 15 minutes.
• Baths with sea salt to improve overall health, normalize blood circulation and nutrition of tissues. For this procedure, you need to choose a tub with warm water, not more than 38 degrees and add half a Cup of natural salt. Bath is necessary for 15-20 minutes.
• Very effective in the prevention of varicose veins fresh juices. They thin the blood, do not allow him to stay in the lower limbs. Prepare juices according to different recipes most popular: Carrots+fresh spinach, in a ratio of 10:6; Carrot+fresh spinach+fresh beets, in a ratio of 10:3:3.
• Cream garlic is recommended by many traditional healers. Prevention you need to use this tool every three months, during the week. Prepare it as follows: you need to chop the fresh garlic and mix it with butter. Means rubbed into the feet at night, from above the roll of parchment and a scarf. In the morning, the cream is washed off.
• Vinegar restores the elasticity of blood vessels and normalizes the blood circulation, Apple cider vinegar is also a great, solves the stalled processes. To prevent varicose veins, you need every evening, moisten a cotton pad in raw apple cider vinegar and wipe their feet along the vein.
• The most simple, popular and effective tool that helps get rid of stagnant processes in the tissues and reduce inflammation and pain, cabbage leaf with honey. A poultice is prepared very simply. Cabbage leaves should be washed and carefully rub, so he let the juice, you can knock it with a hammer or prick with a fork. Is mixed with the sheet to apply a thin layer of natural honey and apply on the skin. When all the plates are stacked, it is necessary to fix them with cling film and go to bed and in the morning remove the wrap and wash your feet. Perform the following procedure should be courses or those days when leg.

Tips

Observing preventive measures, do not forget about the factors that can trigger the disease:

• To prevent varicose veins, it is necessary to abandon the constant wearing of shoes with high heels. Shoes should be comfortable and natural, not press and grind.
• Not worth it in a long sitting posture "foot to foot", because in this position experienced in Vienna.
• Underwear, socks, stockings and tights, you have to choose the size that they do not squeeze the foot and never pressured.

If the veins have already started bulging, some preventive measures are not enough, it is better as soon as possible to visit phlebologist. Initial stage of varicose veins can be treated conservatively, but in severe cases, need surgery. Lack of treatment can lead to the formation of trophic ulcers and the subsequent amputation of his leg.

It is important to understand that your feet do a lot of load every day, so they should be protected. Is to take gymnastics, but also give your feet time to relax. Need to try to not gain weight, in order not to create unnecessary problems in the legs. A proper and active lifestyle is the key to beauty and health of your feet and the entire body.