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Sometimes your superficial veins can become enlarged due to valve functionality complications. This can be embarrassing and uncomfortable, but Davenport varicose veins specialists at Vein & Cardiovascular Center can help you. Board-certified vein expert Ashish Pal, MD, FACC, can diagnose your condition and help you manage it. However, you also have a significant role to play to ensure that the varicose veins don’t get worse. Look at the following ways that you can help your provider to manage the condition.
- Exercising Regularly
Your leg muscles help your veins to push blood back to your heart. This makes them your best and biggest allies, and therefore, you need to take good care of them. Note that the muscles are working against gravity, and therefore, they have to be as fit as possible. Because varicose veins are related to blood circulation complications, strengthening the leg muscles through leg exercises will improve the veins’ appearance and prevent new veins’ appearance as they will boost circulation in the legs.
- Losing Some Weight if You are Overweight
One of the contributing factors to varicose veins’ appearance is more stress and pressure on the legs due to being obese. Therefore, you need to reduce the stress on your legs by shedding off some pounds. As a result, the existing varicose vein’s appearance will be reduced, and new varicose veins will be kept off from appearing.
Losing weight will not only help you prevent varicose veins from getting worse but will also reduce your risk of other complications such as type 2 diabetes, stroke, and a heart attack.
- Avoiding Standing or Sitting for Long Durations
Your occupation can be contributing to the appearance of the varicose veins. Whether your occupation requires you to stand or sit most of the time, you can always find ways to avoid it, especially if you have already visible varicose veins or are at a higher risk of developing the condition.
You can take a break at least after every 30 minutes and stand up or walk around. This will help your leg muscles stimulate blood flow to the heart, unlike when you are passive. On the other hand, if you have been standing all along, take a similar break, and sit down for a while.
- Avoiding Tight-fitting Clothes
Wearing such kind of clothing puts more pressure on your legs. It also prevents effective blood flow in your legs and can cause vein complications that cause the varicose veins. If the veins are already visible, wearing such type of clothes would make your condition worse. Therefore, it would be good to keep off those types of clothes and wear clothes that fit you properly without exerting pressure on your body.
- Lifting Your Feet
It is good sometimes to lift your feet, maybe on a stool or a well-positioned chair. It ensures that the blood from your legs will flow back towards the heart. This is true especially if your occupation requires you to stand most of the time.
- Investing in Compression Hose
These are over the counter accessories that you can easily get that put pressure on your ankle and lower leg. This will improve blood circulation in your legs and will make the blood flow back towards your heart. However, you need to consult your doctor on the prescription-strength.
Managing varicose veins can be such a success if you put the above efforts and others alongside the expert care you get from the specialists. Your provider can also give you additional instructions to help you prevent the varicose veins from getting worse.
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