Varicose veins

Symptoms of varicose veins

Varicose veins are characterized by an uneven expansion of the lumens of the legs, the appearance of knots on them and an increase in their length.The disease gradually develops, characterized by a chronic course.

Women suffer from varicose veins than men three times more often.And among representatives of the stronger sex, faces are susceptible to this disease who love sport with the maximum distribution of the leg load: football, tennis, basketball.

Why is the expansion of the veins?

There are three types of veins in the fabrics of the legs: superficial, depth, connecting superficial and deep veins.Each vein is a hollow pipe, along the blood of the legs flows to the heart.There are no muscle cells in the walls of the veins, so the vein cannot forgive itself to push the blood up.This task is carried out by skeletal muscles of the legs.And the valves are in the veins - they close their sash at the time of reducing the skeletal muscles and avoid the reverse blood flow.Every muscle contraction "presses" blood over it.

When the valves are closed loosely, part of the blood flows back, stagnates in Vienna, squeeze it onto the walls and gradually stretch them out.The lumen of the veins extends, its wall stretches.This is the beginning of varicose veins.

Factors that provoke the disease:

  • Inheritance - With an innate lack of collagen fibers, the venous wall is less elastic and susceptible to stretch.
  • The stagnation of blood in the veins of legs with overweight and obesity, which wears shoes with a heel of more than 3 to 4 centimeters, with longer a place of people with certain professions and sellers, cooks, lecturers or long office workers.
  • Changes in the hormonal background: The increased progesterone content in the blood of a pregnant woman makes the walls soft and stretched, so

The first signs of varicose veins - as you don't miss

The alarm over the initial varicose veins is the moment when vascular stars or vascular nets - reticular varicose veins occur on the skin of the legs.This is not a cosmetic defect, but the insertion of the disease!

At the same time or after a while, the second group of signs connects - a feeling of heaviness in the legs that bursts in the legs after a long standing or sitting on a chair.When a person begins to run, the severity of the heaviness decreases: the skeletal muscles flock higher over the standing blood and the stretching of the walls of the veins decreases.

The further development of the disease manifests itself by edema on the legs - these are traces of socks, a thickening of a leg compared to the second with a visual examination.

Later pain in the calf muscles of the legs, fatigue when walking, dry skin and their pigmentation, protruding Kramikus nodes and the formation of trophic ulcers are noted.

When do you contact a vascular surgeon?

If the first vascular networks and stars appear, you should consult a specialist and, if necessary, carry out an ultrasound examination of the veins of the lower extremities and carry out varicose veins for the veins.The earlier the diagnosis of varicose veins is diagnosed, the more chances to stop them in the initial stages.