What is venous insufficiency?
If venous insufficiency does not seem to endanger the health of Donald Trump too much in danger, what exactly is this syndrome? “”It is a circulatory disease in terms of veins. The latter have trouble raising blood properly up the upper body and the heart. Blood, instead of going back well, stagnates a little, descends and it causes the appearance of varicose veins“, clarifies Dr Pascale Hizette, from the Vascular Surgery Service of the Saint-Pierre CHU.
This “very widespread” disease, according to the specialist, is favored by different factors: age, significant variations in weight and hormonals, and the seated or prolonged standing station. Venous insufficiency “appears both in women and in men”, and pregnant women for example suffer as often. “”A person may have more risk of developing venous insufficiency if there are family history“, also specifies Pascale Hizette.
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What are the consequences of venous insufficiency?
Venous insufficiency can have multiple consequences, in the medium and long term. “”It is a disease that is gradually setting up. It can start very early but it can also settle later. Classic symptoms can range from heavy and painful legs to varicose veins, including feelings of heat in the legs, cramps at night, swelling legs, edema that sets up as the day“, details our interlocutor. In the long term, patients affected by venous insufficiency can suffer from trophic disorders, that is to say that “The skin will be refined and ultimately, if we do nothing, the ultimate complication, they are varicose ulcers”.
How do we take care of venous insufficiency?
Venous insufficiency tends to be chronic: it can be controlled but we generally do not cure it. In the majority of cases, moreover, the disease repeats, even after having removed varicose veins for example. But obviously, there are treatments to reduce symptoms and reduce its manifestation as much as possible. Preventively, first of all, the best is to follow the following advice, recalled by Pascale Hizette: “Avoid prolonged standing stations and large weight variations if possible, take all measures to limit risk factors in other words. Also avoid heat sources in the legs, because when it is very hot, the veins are more dilated. And as soon as you can, raise the legs“.
In terms of conservative treatment, when the symptoms of the disease are there, the first treatment will be the wearing of compression stockings, which go “Restore a little tone to the wall of the vein and will help the venous return and thus limit the appearance of edema“. Medicines, called veinotonics, can also be prescribed.”These are overall treatments, global measures. And when the disease is more advanced, one can go to surgical treatments, where the varicose veins are removed, either in depth or in area, or sclerotherapy for superficial varicose veins“Concludes Dr Pascale Hizette.
