Varicose veins are characterized by uneven spread of lumens of legs of their legs, appearance of nodes on them and increase their length.The disease is developed gradually, characterized by a chronic course.
Women suffer from varicose veins three times more often than men.And among representatives of stronger sex, persons prone to this diseases that love sports with the maximum distribution of leg loads: football, tennis, basketball.
Why is the vein expansion
There are three types of veins in fabric legs: superficial, deep, connection of superficial and deep veins.Each vein is a hollow tube with which blood flows from the tissue of the legs to the heart.There are no muscles in the walls of the vein in the walls of the vein, so the vein cannot be agreed to push the blood.This task is performing skeletal muscles of the leg.And the valves are located inside the veins - close the wings at the time of scalting muscle reduction, avoiding the vice versa blood flow.Each muscle contraction "pushes" the blood above.
When valves flashed slightly closed, a part of the blood returns back, stagnates in Vienna, presses on the walls, gradually stretching them.Lumen vein spreads, the wall extends.This is the beginning of varicose veins.
Factors cause disease:
- Heredity - with an innate lack of collagen, a wall of veins is less elastic and prone to stretching.
- Stagnacing blood in the veins of the legs with excessive weight and obesity, fittings with a fifth more than 3-4 centimeters, with extended standing in one place of people of certain professions, lecturers or long-seated with employees in the Office.
- Changes in hormonal background: Increased contents of progesterone in the blood pregnant woman makes walls soft and stretched, so the danger of varicose veins during the child's period increases.
First signs of varicose veins - How do you not miss
The alarm on the beginning of varicose veins is considered a moment when vascular stars or vascular nets appear on the skin of the leg - reticular varicose veins.This is not a cosmetic deficiency, but also the beginning of the disease!
At the same time or after a while, another group of signs joins - a sense of weight in legs, breaking in the legs after an extended standing or sitting on a chair.When a person begins to walk, a sense of seriousness is reduced: skeletal muscles are overwhelmed over standing blood and stretching walls of veins decreases.
Further development of the disease manifests edema on their feet - these are traces of socks, thickening of one leg compared to another with a visual exam.
Later pain in the calf muscles of legs, fatigue during walking, dry skin and its pigmentation, protruding varicose nodes and form a trophic rector.
When do you contact a vascular surgeon?
When the first vascular networks and stars appear, you should contact the specialization and if necessary, perform an ultrasonic study of the veins of the lower extremities and implement varicose veins on the veins.The diagnosis of varicose veins, which is more likely to stop it in the initial phase.