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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

What To Learn About Spider Vein Removal

By Stella Gay


Blood vessel disorder result from both natural and lifestyle causes in human bodies. For example, natural and lifestyle causes are major causes for spider vein, a medical condition affecting blood vessels. The vessels uniquely stick out on the skin making them simple to notice.

Properties of these blood vessels are their large size, and swollen appearance. Normally they can be seen through the skin because they are twisted and turned and appear in the legs and face. Causes can be natural or human-induced. Major ones include use of control pills, obesity, blood clots history, postmenopausal hormonal replacement, and heredity. There are several treatment options, but spider vein removal stands as one of the most used in Austin, TX today.

Spider vein disorder occurs in both men and women, but women are affected more, with the frequency increasing as they age. Varicose and spider veins have been found to occur in at least 30% to 60% of the adult population in the US. Symptoms are quite characteristic. Major ones are aching and cramping pain in the legs and fatigue, heaviness, tingling, burning, restlessness, and throbbing feeling in legs.

Pain can be relieved through raising of legs or wearing support hoses. However, these are short-term solutions because pain returns when one puts their legs down or removes the hose. Pregnancy and menstrual cycles have been noticed to worsen pain in women. Ulcers, darkening of the skin color around the ankles, thrombophlebitis, as well as swelling of legs are other common symptoms that may occur but only on rare occasions.

Available treatment option include changing lifestyle, surgery, laser and intense pulsed light, radiofrequency occlusion, endovenous laser treatment, and sclerotherapy and one can go for any of them. Lifestyle changes work best for conditions still in the infancy stage. As such, treatment through lifestyle changes may only be effective if the condition is discovered early enough. However, the condition may come back if previous lifestyles are resumed.

There are situations when the vessels may enlarge too much and worsen the situation. In such situations, surgery is the best treatment option. In a surgical procedure, ligation is done together with stripping where the former involves trying the affected veins while the latter involves removing segments. The removal happens in a long strip. Another removal option is ambulatory phlebectomy, which eliminates the veins through tiny incisions without requiring stitches.

Surgery may be conducted under various anesthesia conditions and like stated above, it is only used on large veins. Patients are normally allowed to return home the same day. Normally most insurance firms do not provide cover for treatment of this condition. Consulting with the insurance firm before seeking medication would be a good idea.

Cost for the treatment for the removal procedure is variable. Different states charge differently depending on different factors. Some of the factors may include level of severity and location of the vessels. The process can be performed in the office, on an outpatient basis.




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