In the initial stages, the disease rarely makes patients.However, the presence of advanced veins, even if they do not worry, already carries a great danger to life, since at any time the most dangerous complication can occur -Thrombophlebitis.
With varicose veins, damaged valves allow the blood to penetrate the surface venous system, resulting in an increase in pressure, which leads to their expansion.The blood flow slows down, the strength of the tissues with oxygen decreases, ulcers occur.
Causes of the disease:
- heredity;Hereditary weakness of blood vessels
- Long static loads
- Sedentary
- Taking hormonal drugs and hormonal disorders
- pregnancy
- Leg injuries
- Lifting weight, overload (eg a sudden start to active training after several years of inactive lifestyle)
- smoking
At riskPeople come the same way as young and elderly:
- Those who wear high heels;
- athletes whose classes are associated with high leg load (tennis, heavy athletics, bodybuilding);
- The profession makes you stand on your feet during the work day, be on the steering wheel, computer hairdressers, sellers, teachers, waiters and representatives of other professions who spend a lot of time standing;
- "Seated" professions and those who really love to throw their feet on their feet;
- Fans of coffee and alcohol, as these products dehydrate the body and thus thicken the blood, complicating its path back to the heart.
How to recognize the disease:
If by the end of the work day you feel the weight in your legs and your favorite shoes have become tight due to a slight edema, these are the first characters.Periodically, convulsions, caviar pain should also warn.
Changes in the veins usually start with small to the eye - with the advent of vascular stars.
In the future, irreversible processes occur in large veins, they come to the surface, their walls in some places become thinner and look captivated.
Food and diet
The varicose vein diet is a maximum of vegetables and fruits, a minimum of salt and smoked.Diet with low animal protein, fats and refined carbohydrates.The blood is thickened by acute foods, leading to the formation of blood clots.Vodka, cognac and whiskey work similarly.It is recommended that you eat as much as possible.No wonder the Papuans and the peoples of the Far East, who prefer vegetarian food, never suffer from this disease.
Include fish, fresh fruits and vegetables, foods rich in fiber, high in vitamin C, routine in the diet.From plant products everything is useful.The ABC principle is valid here, where A is Carrots, B is a salad of leaves and C is green and citrus fruits.Two more important vitamins should be added to this list, enhancing the walls of the vessels.This is Vitamin E, which is contained in olive oil, and vitamin P, which is part of nuts, green tea and roses.Vitamins C and E components of collagen - connective tissue of veins and venous valves.In surprise, the veins are surprisingly enriched with the necessary nutrients and make them more elastic germinated grains of wheat and rye, as well as peas, beans and green onions.Garlic is a special place.
Scientists have proven that garlic has a beneficial effect on the blood.This is manifested in the prevention of the formation in the vessels of blood clots - blood clots that make it difficult or overlap the blood.
If we summarize almost thirty scientific experiments, during which the effect of garlic on the viscosity of the blood is checked, then it can be determined briefly as follows: if you take garlic for a certain period of time, you can expect an increase in the level of dissipation of the intravascular clouds by 50%.In addition to contributing to the absorption of blood clots to the blood, garlic also does not allow platelets to increase and compact and therefore form blood clots.
Eat 2-3 cloves of garlic with food every day.This helps to reduce blood pressure, cleaning the vessels of atherosclerotic deposits, strengthening their walls and preventing varicose veins, etc.
Prevention:
If you have the initial signs of varicose veins, then observing quite simple rules will be delayed and in some cases to avoid its more development.
- Don't get carried away with hot bathsSauna, long stay in the sun.Everything above reduces the venous tone, leading to stagnation of blood in the lower limbs.
- Move more.To strengthen the veins and improve blood circulation will help with regular sports.Aerobics, running, moderate swimming contribute to the healing of your veins.
- Reduce weight.People who suffer from overweight are particularly susceptible to such a disease.In the blood vessels of the full person there is more blood than that of a person of normal weight, so such vessels are too much load.We can give only one advice to overweight people in such a situation - to lose weight and maintain our weight constantly normally.
- Don't wear tight clothes, socks and socks with narrow elastic bands as this leads to vein squeezing.But maintaining tights and socks help prevent varicose veins.
- Alternate the load evenly, never stays in the same position for a long time.
- Don't sit on your foot!When you throw one knee on another, an obstacle is created along the path of the blood flow.
- Move.Varicose veins can cause prolonged standing, since in this case normal blood flow is disturbed.Try to move weight if you have to stand for a long time.Long -term sitting will also not be helpful: try to get up and move around the room from time to time or walk every half hour.
- Exercise in the morning.Before you go to bed and in the morning after waking up for 3-5 minutes, twisting the legs and legs - this improves blood circulation in the lower limbs.
- Do not wear heelsAnd tight shoes.
- Pour your feet with cold waterAfter work.
- Go to Dew Moreand the edge of the tanks in the summer.
If you are not ill with varicose veins, but only predisposed to it, for the prevention, the daily solo mass will be useful, with soft shocks and mixing your legs from the bottom.
If the diagnosis of "varicose veins" is already made, the leg massage procedures are prohibited!
The lack of exercise and chronic constipation are factors that contribute to the development of varicose veins.
If you feel the weight during the night after a working day, during sleep and rest, they should be maintained in high condition.When you rest, read the book, watch TV - throw your feet higher.You can place a high pillow or roll.
If your work is accompanied by a long seat on the table or stand for a long time, then you need to change the position of your feet, go to the place, rotate your legs.
After the shower or taking the bathroom, rinse your feet with cold water.There are sports that are useful in this disease - this is, first of all, swimming, as well as walking, easy running, cycling, skiing.
Healing and therapeutic gymnastics:
The daily performance of special exercises will be very useful:
- Socks.Initial positions - we stand straight, the legs are parallel to each other and pressed against each other.On the expense of once - go to the socks, at the expense of two - go down to the starting position.Repeat 20-30 times.
- Rise (socks - separated).Initial positions - we stand straight, heels - together, socks - except.On the expense of once - go to the socks, at the expense of two - go down to the starting position.Repeat 20-30 times.
- Rise (heels - separately).Initial positions - we stand straight, socks - together, heels - except.In this position at the expense of once - go to the socks, at the expense of two - go down to the starting position.Repeat 20-30 times.
- Another useful exercise is the "bicycle" from the position of lying on the back.It is very important - when performing this exercise, straighten your feet to the end.
You can do these simple exercises, even do a daily business (when you cook porridge or stand on Xerox in the office).Be healthy!