Varicose veins- can its symptoms be prevented?

The simple answer is YES.

One needs to just understand to look after their legs at all times, legs for life.

Varicose veins are more common in people who lead a sedentary life and in those situations where one needs to stand in a given place for long. A good example is a teacher, a butcher, a police personal and so on.

varicose veins are prominent veins seen under the skin in our legs and these causes discomfort and pain on prolonged standing or sitting just in one place. so just walk and move every 10 to 15 minutes even at whatever work one is doing.

Statistically varicose veins are very common, almost 30 to 50 % of adults have it. It is therefore important firstly to acknowledge their presence, then see an expert who has a complete understanding of them and who also has all preventive and therapeutic options for you. If one can invest an hour of their time and some money and arrange a consultation with an interventional radiologist who can provide a complete assessment along with a venous Doppler screening test will suffice.

An inteventional radiologist is not only trained in doing a proper assessment of your veins using an ultrasound machine but also gives you treatment options that is best suited for your need.

Today we can prevent the varicose veins from getting any worse by following the conservative treatment plan of walking, exercises, and proper use (this is very important to understand) of compression stocking. Just in case we cannot prevent them, we can completely treat them using either injection treatment for smaller veins that is done as an office-based procedure using ultrasound guidance alone under local anesthesia. If there are larger veins that show reflux of blood on the ultrasound Doppler scan, we can treat them and cure them with laser treatment which again can be done under local anesthesia alone as a daycare procedure. There is NO NEED to have general anesthesia or spinal anesthesia and take the undue risk though rare for the treatment of varicose veins. Open surgery is almost never done for varicose veins these days and can be reserved under extremely rare situations.

I am an interventional radiologist with a keen interest in the prevention and treatment (if need be) for any varicose veins that may be troubling you.