Unfortunately it is not just that the veins are aesthetically ugly and many women who suffer in the warm season, her legs do not show naked. Varicose veins may also cause pain. The legs are starting to itch severely, and in advanced stages and may develop discoloration or frequent leg cramps to inflammation of blood vessels, even the emergence of a so-called open leg can not be excluded.

If treatment with compression stockings is not enough, is a classic method of treatment against the obliteration or sclerosis of varices. Of varicose veins are mainly affected women, which also far more prone to connective tissue than men.

Varicose veins can be a doctor is usually diagnosed by the very sight of the legs. The doctor will need to scan the leg in addition to and do a Trendelenburg test, in which the individual legs up store. If, after that he go back. The physician can directly observe how the veins are filled again with blood. In addition, ultrasound or X-rays, is injected into the veins in which a contrast agent will be conducted.

Depending on the severity of varicose veins, the doctor will decide on the applicable therapy. In many cases, the degradation is sufficient. Land degradation is performed without anesthesia. The treatment is standing or loved ones. Here the doctor injects a drug with a thin needle into the vein, which then draws an inflammatory stimulus on the wall of a blood vessel by himself and the available blood in the vein has resulted.

The body breaks down the clot, the vessel wall collapses and bonded. Then the person concerned, a pressure bandage is applied. Varicose veins are already strong, it is possible that multiple treatments must be performed before creating a visible success.

Even if the treatment was successfully completed, a concerned patient should always expect that again may form new varicose veins, because the real cause of the illness was not dealt with the devastation. The attending physician, the obliteration of varices for medically necessary Holds carry the statutory health insurance costs. If the degradation only eliminate an aesthetic problem, the patient must bear the costs themselves.