5 tips to keep your feet beautiful and healthy

Summer turns into a problem for 40% of women: spider veins and even knots on the veins can no longer be hidden under clothing. How to deal with this?

As it turns out, recommendations for preventing varicose veins of the lower extremities are simple and generally available.

Limit static loads

When you work sedentary or standing, you need to move periodically, give a measured load to the muscles of the lower extremities, rise on your toes, walk vigorously (you can do it in place). This helps to contract the muscles, improve blood circulation, and increase venous blood outflow. Daily 20-minute walks, during which the calf muscles contract, help the blood outflow from the veins. During a long car ride, stop more often to stretch. While at work, walk around your desk several times. If you are flying on an airplane or traveling on a train, try to get up and walk a little every half hour.

Get rid of the habit of sitting with your legs crossed

- in this position, not only does the outflow of blood from the legs worsen, but the blood supply to the genitals is also disrupted.

Avoid tight clothing

Any clothing that interferes with normal blood circulation in the thighs and shins, in particular tight pants or knee-highs, increases venous congestion.

Avoid high heels

High-heeled shoes make the muscles constantly tense and increase the load on the veins of the legs. And, in addition, fans of high heels exclude the work of the natural “pump” of the shin, which is necessary for pushing blood, with their help when walking. Therefore, if you have to wear stilettos, take them off from time to time and stretch the muscles of the shin. But it is better to give preference to shoes with medium heels (4-5 cm).

Take care of your nutrition

If you want to know more about what is causing your swollen veins, look at what you are stuffing your stomach with. The modern diet usually contains little dietary fiber and a lot of fat, sugar and salt. This leads to increased intra-abdominal pressure and constipation. Thus, the blood flow to the lower extremities increases. Therefore, it is advisable to exclude or at least limit salty and refined foods, flour and sweets, canned food, smoked foods, alcohol. It is better to focus on plant foods. It helps to soften the contents of the intestines and reduces the pressure on the walls of the veins. Therefore, in countries where it is customary to consume a large amount of dietary fiber, varicose veins are practically unknown.

Among the substances that help strengthen blood vessels, prevent the formation of blood clots and normalize processes at the microcirculatory level, vitamins and microelements occupy a large place - copper, zinc, calcium, manganese, potassium, sodium.

Rutin (vitamin P), especially in combination with vitamin C, restores the elasticity of blood vessels, reduces the permeability and fragility of capillaries.

This substance is found in large quantities in rose hips, citrus fruits, black currants, rowan berries, chokeberries, green tea and, oddly enough, in coffee, beer, and grape wine.

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Preparations from horse chestnut seed extract and thiamine hydrochloride (vitamin R) work well. A deficiency of the latter, by the way, leads to muscle weakness, loss of sensitivity in the legs, burning, swelling of the extremities. This vitamin is found in beans, grain crops, meat, especially pork, liver and brewer's yeast. These preparations strengthen the walls of the veins, increase the tone of the venous vessels, normalize hemodynamics, and relieve pain.

A lack of vitamin B6 can cause leg pain, cramps, and skin diseases. Sources of the vitamin: liver, peanuts, grains and sprouts, brewer's yeast, bran, egg yolk, chicken, broccoli.

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