Spider veins are abnormally enlarged blood vessels seen as a cluster of red, blue or purple veins, most often on the legs and calf region of women more often than men.
Spider veins are abnormally enlarged blood vessels seen as a cluster of red, blue or purple veins, most often on the legs and calf region of women more often than men. Their prevalence increases with increasing age. Spider veins and varicose veins (more severe form of enlarged and dilated veins) affect up to 50% of the adult population. Spider veins is noticed as a spider web of tiny blood vessels of different colours close to the surface of the skin.
Spider veins are damaged veins found when tiny, one-way valves inside the veins weaken. In healthy veins, these valves push blood in one direction only- back to our heart. When these valves weaken and don't close correctly, some amount of blood flows backward and gets accumulated in the vein. This extra blood in the vein puts pressure on the walls of the vein. With continual pressure of this backflow, the vein walls weaken and bulge over a period of time resulting in spider veins and progressively varicose veins.
Some people have a higher risk of developing these veins.
A thorough physical examination and few targeted investigations (Doppler) are necessary before planning a treatment for spider veins. Preventive measures are practised which help prevent new varicose and spider veins but cannot get rid of existing ones. There are two methods available for treating spider veins which are effective, safe and painless.
Injection Sclerotherapy- Injection of a solution into each affected vein causes the vein to collapse, and fade is the most common Spider Vein Treatment. This improves circulation in the treated leg and reduces swelling. This treatment is completed in single sitting.
Laser treatment- directs the laser light at the vein. Small spider veins have better response. Larger spider veins will darken, and they will disappear in about 1 to 3 months. To get complete clearing, you will need more than 3 sittings.
Dr Amit Agarwal does only sclerotherapy treatment for spider veins as it is quite effective in single sitting only with no down time.
If sclerotherpy is chosen by you, then it is an outpatient office procedure which requires your stay at the centre for about 2 to 3 hours. The affected veins are injected with a sclerosing solution. This solution irritates inside of the vein, and with time this vein collapses and fades away. After sclerotherapy, the treated area is dressed with creppe bandage. The affected veins initially look bruised but in a course of few weeks, the colour slowly fades away. You will need to go for a walk daily and wear the compression stockings for 3 weeks to prevent possible side effects. You can return to work the very next day.
If you have varicose veins along with spider veins, then surgery should be done for varicose veins and simultaneous injection sclerotherapy can be done during the surgery.
In the recovery period of Spider Vein Treatment, Dr Amit Agarwal will instruct you to wear compression garment for your legs to heal properly. There will be some bruising after the treatment but this usually subsides within a day or two.
You can resume your normal activities quickly with some specific instruction prescribed by Dr Amit Agarwal. Follow up schedules will be provided to you by your doctor.
Within a month, the bruises will diminish and you will start feeling comfortable in wearing leg-baring fashion. You also can resume your exercise routine after a month.
Spider Vein Treatment with sclerotherapy also involves some risks and complications which include
If you have blue, red or purple color veins in your thigh and calf area, then you are a suitable candidate for the surgery.
You will be sent home immediately after the injection.
There will be no permanent scars but there may be some bruising and hyperpigmentation after the treatment which subsides with time.
Quitting smoking is a perfect solution even without surgery as it involves many health risks, but it's totally up to you wish that you want to quit or not. But you should surely stop smoking before the procedure and 2 weeks after the injection.
You can resume work next day after the procedure.
Indivisual results may vary from person to person.
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Acute pain will be there for almost a week which gradually reduces and there will be soreness and swelling which may take up to 3 weeks to subside.
You can join your work and daily routines after a week of the procedure and can start exercising after 3 weeks of it.
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This surgery does not affect the ducts or the areas of the breast involved in milk production. Thus, it does not affect the breast feeding.
This surgery does not affect the ducts or the areas of the breast involved in milk production. Thus, it does not affect the breast feeding.
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