Spider veins on the body

Spider veins, or telangiectasia, is translucent through the skin of small convoluted vessels, resembling a cobweb. They can be red, blue, purple. This mesh body is a widespread phenomenon which is often considered solely a cosmetic problem. In fact it is not. Red or purple stars – extended tiny intradermal vessels. Their appearance suggests that the person stretched and lose their elasticity of the capillaries. Change the small blood vessels – a warning sign. This suggests that there is a tendency to varicose veins, even if large veins are normal. This is often a sign of early stage of varicose veins.

Approximately two times more often they occur in women because of hormonal changes during pregnancy, with the onset of menopause.

Venous stars are not only a cosmetic defect, sometimes accompanied by pain and swelling at the place of their localization, so they need to be treated.

Types

They can be venous, arterial, capillary. They are divided into point, tree, spider, linear. Spider veins can appear on different parts of the body, but more common on legs and face, less often on the hands, back, neck.

On the feet usually occur telangiectasia of two types: linear and tree. The first are on the outside thighs, the second on the inner surface.

Blood stars tend to be red. They diverge from their supplying arterioles in different directions, and have the appearance of a spider.

Vascular cobweb on face is called rosacea. Often appears on the nose and cheeks, and is a reddish or purple stars linear or tree type.

Can accelerate the appearance of spider veins, the following factors:

• Hormonal medications.
• Surgery.
• Fascination with Solarium, sunbathing, saunas, steam rooms, hot tubs, including the foot.
• Passion beauty treatment (deep peeling of the skin of the face and body).
• Frostbite.
• Injuries of the lower extremities.
• Alcohol abuse and Smoking.
• Long stay on his feet or in a sitting position.
• Pregnancy.
• Obesity.
• Old age.
• Dance classes or sports of high intensity. Usually this happens when weak blood vessels. At high loads the blood flow increases, the vessels can not withstand the pressure, stretch and can even hurt.

In addition, telangiectasias are a symptom of some congenital diseases:

• syndrome of Maffucci (deformity of the bones and cartilage);
• Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (malformations of the veins);
• Rendu syndrome Weber-Osler (hereditarybleeding);
• glaucoma;
• syndrome, Louis-Bar (ataxia-telangiectasia – a systemic disease, which affects many organs and systems);
• meningeal angioma.

Men and women stars appear for different reasons. In men, most often they are associated with chronic venous insufficiency in women with hormonal contraceptives, hormonal changes and various disorders caused by pregnancy, abortion, endocrine and gynecological diseases. Typically, the vascular webs, appearing in gestation, missing a month and a half after giving birth.

Treatment

Often people don't pay attention to spider veins on the legs or concerned only with getting rid of a cosmetic defect. Even doctors sometimes do not pay enough attention to the capillary mesh, considering it harmless phenomenon. But if it is a signal about the first signs of varicose veins, then ignore it. You should try to do everything to prevent the progression of the disease, and it is not only the removal of the asterisks, but lifestyle changes and medication. With the appearance of spider veins and the propensity for education should:

1. To reduce excess weight.
2. Try to have walks more often.
3. Whenever possible, raise the legs above heart level.
4. Not to sit in Turkish, foot for foot, foot to foot.
5. If you have to sit a long time, wear compression tights or stockings.
6. Daily rinse feet with cool water.
7. Physical activity and sports with moderate loads, eliminating long runs, jumps, squats, lunges. Particularly useful are exercises that load the calf muscles. This prevents the stagnation of blood in leg veins.