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Varicosity: Symptoms
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Does varicosis depend on age?
In some people, the legs themselves remain clean from the venous nodes, while others suffer from manifestations of this disease from the age of thirty. Why is this happening?
Why do some people until old age do not know what varicose is, and others have blue venous streaks on their legs visible already at the age of thirty? There are several reasons, and age is not in the first place of this hierarchy.
[Excess weight and varicose veins
One of the first and important reasons for the development of varicose veins is overweight. If a person weighs a lot of kilograms body, much more than it is supposed to, the legs carry an increased load. The circulatory system suffers first, because the veins and arteries provide the whole of this large body structure. When a person is overweight, the veins are squeezed into him, like a press. The same process occurs during pregnancy.
When the veins are squeezed, the blood flow in them is disturbed, and thrombi can form, the walls of the veins are destroyed, hence the processes that lead to varicose veins. Boulte sure: women because of their ability to become pregnant suffer from varicose veins 4 times more often than men. Therefore, they need to protect their veins especially.
Lifestyle and varicose veins
If a person does not give legs a break, if the legs are constantly moving or, conversely, immobilized, varicose can very easily hit such a person. In a special group of risk - surgeons, athletes, teachers, hairdressers. They spend a lot of time on their feet, which is why their venous system suffers.
Varicose veins and other diseases
The causes of varicose veins may be completely, it would seem, not related to the feet of the disease. It can be a heart disease, which is so weak that it can not pump enough blood. These can be kidneys with their kidney failure, which can not process all the fluid entering the body. It can be hormones that are produced in the body too much or, conversely, little, and their ratios violate the norm.
Scientifically proven that the walls of venous vessels can be weakened due to hormonal storms, as well as hormonal adjustment in the period before menstruation, pregnancy, puberty, menopause.
Varicosity and heredity
If a person has a family member suffering from varicose veins (mother, grandmother, aunt), then he needs to be especially careful with the strain on his legs and prevent this serious disease. It is best to see a doctor for examination and undergo a course of treatment for varicose in the initial stages, the longer and harder it is then to fight this disease when it grabbed you tightly.
Symptoms of varicose veins
Varicosity does not immediately manifest as thick veins-ropes on the legs and severe pain in the limbs. It comes on the body gradually, gradually. In the risk group are people who give the greatest burden on their feet: ballerinas, hairdressers, teachers. The fact that varicose gradually begins to occupy the body, manifests itself first by the type of nails. Yes, it is on the nails that you should always pay attention to understand if you have an initial stage of varicose veins. Nails can start to break, separate, or - the reverse situation - they are too thick and rough.
After the nails, the veins are signaled by poor blood flow. On their feet they begin to shine through the skin. At first these wreaths are small, almost invisible. The first signs are noticeable blue wreaths in the popliteal fossae. Then on the legs appear vascular asterisks - these are more serious manifestations of varicose veins.
Keep in mind that in thin people the veins and, accordingly, the initial stage of varicose manifests more noticeably and earlier than in full people, whose veins hide the subcutaneous fatty tissue. The condition of the veins should be paid attention and it is necessary to consult a therapist or phlebologist - a doctor who deals with diseases of veins and blood. Do not think that veins on the legs, which have acquired a darker shade - it's just plain ugly. No, it's also dangerous.
How to recognize the symptoms of varicose veins?
In order not to be mistaken, it is better to go to a specialist. But you can also recognize for yourself the signs of varicose veins. How to do it? There are old proven methods, one might say, classical. This is a test for varicose veins, they can be used to determine how far the disease has gone in its manifestations.
Gakkenbruch Trial
You need to stand on a level floor. Then slightly bend and put your fingers on that leg site where the varicose veins are visible. On the nodes of these veins should be three fingers. Cough lightly. If the fingers feel a push of blood, then the venous valve does not work, its functions are violated. This valve is in the place where the superficial vein passes into another - deep.
Sheinis three-lead test
Lie down before starting these tests. Five minutes of lying on a hard surface, throwing your legs above the level of the heart, will help you prepare for this exercise. Then massage your foot and ankle from the foot towards the groin. In this movement, the veins should become free of blood flow. That is emptied. Now prepare and apply three strands. One must be put on the thigh - its upper third.
Another tourniquet should be placed on the middle of the thigh, and the third tourniquet is superimposed on the area just below the knee. Now stand up on your feet. If on one of the sites where the plaits were applied, the veins swelled, and this is clearly visible, which means that the valve system does not work there.
The Delbe-Portes test
On it you can determine how good the patency of deep veins. Stand straight and place a tourniquet on one of the thighs. Be like this bundle for a short time - 10 seconds. If varicose nodules have relaxed during this time, have ceased to be in a strain, means, deep veins possess good passableness. If not - it means that the patency of the deep veins is broken.
Flush test
This test also shows the patency of deep veins. Walk a little - 2-3 minutes, so that the veins are filled with blood. Then put a tourniquet on the thigh. This should be done so that only the veins close to the skin surface collapse. That is, the compression should not be deep, the leg should not change its color to pale or, conversely, reddish. It should remain a natural shade.
Be like this harness for about five minutes. If the subcutaneous veins are hidden - then the deep veins have a good patency. If the subcutaneous veins are close to the surface, then the deep veins are poorly flowing blood.
There are signs of varicose veins. This may mean that the communicative veins are no longer performing their functions, their tissue is deformed.
Know that these tests can only get an approximate result. To determine exactly what is with you and whether you have varicose veins, it is better to consult a phlebologist or therapist. The doctor will conduct the examination with the help of special tools and will put an accurate diagnosis.
Stages of development of varicose veins
Soon, varicose veins are gaining momentum: the veins begin to swell, become non-uniform. On them there are nodes. They can already be felt with your fingers. They do not yet have stagnation of blood, but if you do not pay attention to thrombophlebitis, this stage is just around the corner. In the meantime, the stage of thrombophlebitis, when the blood flow is still intact, and the veins are already clearly visible, is called the state of cosmetic disorders.
Further more. Varicosis progresses, and the person has comorbid symptoms: he becomes more irritable, gets tired faster, his feet feel like two pads, they are hard to walk, his legs get tired quickly. A person starts complaining about a bad memory, even worse health, at night he turns in bed, can not fall asleep. Still: the varicose does not doze. This is the stage of oxygen starvation of the veins, because of which the legs swell quickly, and these swellings are clearly visible. Check yourself: if there is a trace on the foot of the elastic of the sock or stocking, then you have swelling that may indicate varicose veins.
For this stage (the second stage of varicose veins), seizures are also characteristic, which are felt in the calf muscles. Sometimes at night a person can wake up from the fact that he does not feel his own tibia. There is a feeling that the person has served this part of the body. This means that oxygen starvation is already very strong. We urgently need to see a doctor.
The next stage of varicose veins is the changes on the inside of the shin. They appear brown spots, which are clearly visible. The skin may appear dermatitis with rashes and itching all over the skin surface. Swelling already affects the person more often, they can occur in any part of the foot. Heaviness in the legs is exacerbated - they seemed to be poured with heavy metal.
The person even more quickly starts to get tired, even if he did not do anything special. Weakness, poor sleep, depressive states are all manifestations of blood stagnation in the veins. And not your bad mood. These conditions need to be treated, otherwise the fourth stage of varicose occurs - the worst and with the greatest complications. Among these complications are thrombophlebitis, trophic ulcers on the legs, which are almost not treated, bleeding due to varicose veins, lack of blood flow in the veins, which is chronic. That's how many troubles can deliver varicose veins.