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What Can I Do About My Varicose Veins?

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The Varicose veins are dilatations of the venous walls and are due to several factors. Genetic predisposition, wrong postures, incorrect nutrition and lack of physical exercise, are just some of the factors that favor the stagnation of fluids in the lower limbs and a worse functioning of the micro-circulation resulting in a feeling of swelling and pain in the legs. What are varicose veins? Varicose veins, in addition to being an annoying aesthetic drawback, represent a vascular pathology of great importance that mainly affects women. These are permanent dilations of the venous walls that essentially affect the lower limbs (large or small saphenous and their tributaries). A sedentary lifestyle, an incorrect diet low in antioxidants (from this point of view, it is recommended to eat raw and colourful), smoking. Furthermore, the relationship between the two disorders is not one-to-one: a patient with varicose veins may also have capillaries, but capillaries are not a disease tha...