The prevention of varicose veins

Varicose veins is a serious disease that can be cured completely with surgery. It is accompanied by a pain, swelling in the legs and the advent of the blue vascular grid on the skin, which creates explicit cosmetic defects.

The better to comply with the measures of prevention and not provoke the onset of the disease. In this case, the feet will always be small, are beautiful and well-maintained. Preventive measures help prevent not only varicose veins, but other serious diseases, such as inflammation of joints or connective tissues.

Power

Balanced and useful, nutrition plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of varicose veins and other diseases. A good diet helps to saturate the body with useful vitamins and trace elements, strengthen the immune system and reduce the risk of contracting infectious diseases.

For the prevention of varicose veins, it is recommended to respect the following recommendations in terms of nutrition:

• There are no less than 5 times per day, small portions. The breakfast should be the most dense and greasy, in the evening is better to give preference to vegetables, let us pray to the dishes.
• The menu during the day should be balanced, it is the need of consuming enough protein, fat, carbohydrates, you can not limit yourself to one item.
• It is recommended to prepare without adding oil, either steam, boil, simmer and cook. The vegetable oils necessary to add it in salads.
• When varicose veins useful to eat foods with plenty of fiber, these products have a positive effect on the elasticity of the blood vessels. They include fruits and vegetables as well as bran cereal.
• When varicose veins need products that contain the following vitamins: E, c, P, as well as the copper. They are found in vegetables, fruits, berries, nuts, fish and meat.

In order to reduce the risk of the appearance of varicose veins, it is recommended to eliminate or reduce the number of the following products in the diet:

• Fatty and fried, with a large quantity of salt and spices. This food can cause the development of atherosclerosis and associated complications, as well as edema;
• Alcoholic beverages, coffee and strong tea. These drinks widen the blood vessels in the muscles, the frequent use of their consumption may cause of varicose veins.
• Candies that are systematically used, lead to an excess of weight, and therefore, stagnation processes in the tissues and blood vessels. In addition, the excess weight creates an increased load on the feet.

Often, the cause of varicose veins is excess weight, so the more people prone to the onset of the disease. In order to reduce the risk of health problems, it is necessary to try to establish your power and lose weight. In this case, reduce the pressure on your feet, the muscles, joints and vessels to cease suffering from undue stress.

Exercises

To reduce the risk of process of stagnation in the tissues and vessels to help regular exercises. Each person, it is recommended to start the day with in the morning, this workout to wake you up, stretch your legs, reducing the risk of a clumsy injury, as well as strengthen the body and keep it healthy. Also it is recommended to practice yoga, and heavy sports in the varicose veins against.

If a person is open the whole day sitting, several times for a change, you must do the exercises — five minutes. These exercises will help you to disperse the blood, is not allowing it to thicken and to stay at the bottom, the muscles and the vessels will come to the tone and will normally begin to decrease.

The following exercises are perfect for charging on the workplace:

• Walking, rolling the foot from heel to toe, or to perform exercises sitting, lingering at the top and slightly stretching out the muscles.
• Get up on the balls of the feet and linger for a few seconds.
• Need sitting to put the foot on the heel and the effort to press an invisible pedal;
• Sitting on a chair with a smooth back, you need to put the feet in front so that the knees are bent at a 90-degree angle. In this position, the ability to walk, lifting up the knees.
• Need to sit on a chair and straighten the back, the legs bend at the knees. Compress the legs with the effort to imagine that something is trying to dilute the back.
• Sitting on a chair and placing the feet in front of him, need to press the foot on the ground, the maximum you fatigue the muscles.

For training at home more suitable with the following exercises:

• Walking on up high, lifting the thigh. You must keep your back straight and walk on the spot gently lifting the knees as high as possible. If you are not sure that you can keep her balance, a hand to hold for support.
• You need to put the book on the floor and stand on it socks for the heel free hung. Hold the balance, lower and lift the heel.
• Highly effective against varicose veins, well-known in the previous year.
• You need to lie on your back, legs, bend the knees and stretch the chest, then abruptly straighten the legs and hold in this position for a few seconds, and then return to the starting position.
• Very effective stretching exercises. You can make slopes to the bottom, straighten the knees. Or sit on the floor, legs dissolve in different directions and straighten, to make slopes on each foot and in between them.

Compression garment

Compression is an excellent tool for the prevention of varicose veins varicose veins. It makes the feet more rsistant, prevents the appearance of edema and pain at the end of the day. Underwear can be bought in a pharmacy or store, orthopedic, as well as ordering via the internet. It is made by a special technology, thanks to which the machine compresses feet lower and weaker on the top that allows you to prevent the stagnation of liquid in the bottom and out of the top.

The following persons it is recommended to wear a compression garment:

• Professional athletes, and someone who regularly trains in the gym.
• The people who work in an office and spend a lot of time sitting;
• The baggage handlers and people who are regularly on the severity;
• People who spend all day on their feet;
• Women who often wear high-heeled shoes;
• To those whose age exceeds 50 years.
• Pregnant women and after childbirth;
• People with excess weight.

Very it is important to choose and use compression. There are three types of under-clothing: socks, stockings and tights. In addition, the machine is subdivided into curative and preventive. People in good health may not be therapeutic for the lingerie, because it is too squeeze the legs, and to choose his / her physician must.

Stockings and tights for the prevention you need to wear each day, and to wear in the morning, not getting up. It is important to wear an undershirt, so as not to damage it. Good size stockings and tights, well sit, nowhere are not overwritten and can not slip.

In our time, orthopedic stores offer a wide variety of segments of tights, there's even a model for pregnant women. They are manufactured by the new technology, which allows making the product is not only useful, but also beautiful. Tights for women presented in different colors, in addition, you can buy models transparent with beautiful patterns.

The procedure

There are many procedures that help in the prevention of varicose veins or in the early stages of the disease. But not all physical therapy is authorized to use only after the visit of the expert. A doctor, you can specify if it is for you to visit the physiotherapy and the best. Often, when the varicose veins is prescribed in the treatment of the press.

At home prevention of varicose veins of the legs, as well as swelling and pain is possible with the treatment of the water. A contrast shower is an effective tool, which allows you to tone blood vessels, improve microcirculation in the tissues, make the skin the outer skin healthy and youthful. If already started, varicose veins it is necessary to lower feet in water up to the ankle.

It is very important to carry out the procedure. To do this, you can wash the feet with a shower or to fill the two bowls with water, which in turn will settle the feet. You must comply with the following rules:

• The water should be comfortable, the cold, but not iced. Or hot, but not boiling.
• Begin the procedure with the hot water, it keep the feet require 2 to 3 minutes.
• The footprint move in the cold water for 5 to 10 seconds.
• Repeat the manipulation is not more than 4 times, the total duration of the procedure should not exceed 15 minutes.
• To finish the procedure in cold baths.

Folk remedies

Many patients prefer the methods of folk medicine for the prevention of varicose veins. The money of the people can be very effective, they help to reduce the unpleasant symptoms at the end of the working day and improve the condition of the feet.

Prevention of varicose veins on the legs can be performed using the following tools:

• Baths with herbs well relax your feet after a hard day of work. To prepare a hot bath, you need to do three tablespoons of chamomile flowers in two cups of boiling water and let stand for at least 60 minutes to infuse, covered. After an hour lets you get the broth and pour it in the bath tub with warm water, put it in the feet up to the ankle and to hold 15 minutes.
• The bath with sea salt, to improve the well-being of the human person, contribute to the normalization of the circulation and nutrition of tissues. For this procedure, you must call in a hot water bath, not more than 38 degrees and add half a glass of natural, salt. Take a bath, you must within a period of 15 to 20 minutes.
• Very effective for the prevention of varicose veins of the juice of fresh fruit. They thin the blood, allowing it to remain in the lower limbs. Prepared juice of different recipes, the most popular: Carrot+fresh spinach, in the proportion of 10:6; Carrot+spinach+beet, in the proportion of 10:3:3.
• The ointment of garlic recommended by many traditional healers. For prevention need to use this tool, once in three months, per week. It is prepared thus: it is necessary to chop the fresh garlic and mix it with the butter. The tool rub in the legs at night, the high roller scroll up and down with a handkerchief. On the morning of the ointment need to rinse.
• The vinegar restores the elasticity of blood vessels and normalizes the blood circulation, also the apple cider vinegar is excellent and solves process stagnant. For the prevention of varicose veins, you have all night to soak a cotton in nature of apple cider vinegar and wipe the feet along the vein.
• The most simple, known, and effective, which helps to get rid of the stagnation of the process in the tissues and to relieve the inflammation and pain of a leaf of cabbage with honey. The compress is prepared very simply. A cabbage leaf need to wash and you stretch for it has the juice to do this, you can hit it with a hammer or poke with a fork. The mashed leaf apply a thin coat of honey applied to the skin. When all sheets are stacked up, you have to fix the film with food and sleep, and in the morning, compress, remove and wash the feet. Perform procedures in need of change, or the days where the legs strongly get tired.

Tips

Respecting the measures of prevention, not forget the factors that can trigger the disease:

• For the prevention of varicose veins need to refrain from wearing high-heeled shoes. The shoes should be comfortable and natural, nowhere, do not tighten and do not rub.
• Not the pain of long sitting in the position of "legs", because in this position will be experienced in vienna.
• Underwear, socks, tights, it is necessary to choose the size, so that they are not squeezed the feet, and nowhere is not pressed.

If the veins have already begun to be inflated, among the measures of prevention are not sufficient, the better as soon as possible to visit phlebologist. The initial stage of varicose veins can heal the conservative methods, but in severe cases, the need for surgery. The absence of treatment can lead to the formation of venous ulcers and the follow-up of the amputation of the leg.

It is important to understand that the legs do a large load of every day, that is why it must be protected. You need to take gymnastics, but to provide the feet time for leisure. You should try not to gain weight, in order not to create unnecessary problems feet. The good active lifestyle is the key to the beauty and health of feet and whole body.