Both women and men place a significant cosmetic value on their legs. For men, they want their legs to be muscular. Women, meanwhile, have a tendency to be much more particular about how their legs look. They do not want their legs to look too fat or too thin, and they make most fashion choices based on how good their legs look in a particular outfit.
However, when their cosmetic leg sensibilities become traumatized by spider veins, they can elect to get sclerotherapy. In order to really have a better understanding of the need for sclerotherapy, it is important to first understand what causes spider veins in the first place.
While these kinds of veins most prevalently occur in older women, they can actually start occurring as early as a woman's thirties. The reason for this is usually due to pregnancy, or excessive weight gain. In both situations, the excess weight gain places pressure on the veins in the legs. The blood that flows through these veins as part of the circulation process then struggles to flow through, so the veins swell to accommodate the blood flow.
This is where sclerotherapy comes in. This is a procedure that is formulated to treat the spider veins until they shrink back into the leg. The procedure itself requires various microinjections that are designed to aggravate the vein lining, which causes its eventual disappearance. The procedure is done in a series of sessions, and during each session there are multiple veins that will be able to be treated if necessary.
When it comes to the location where the sclerotherapy procedure itself will take place, it can usually just be done in the clinic of the doctor. The procedure does not require any anesthesia. Instead, the patient will feel a slight pinch as each injection is administered. As for what is inside of each injection, it could be either sodium tetradecylsulfate, or hypertonic saline. It should be noted that for those who find the injections especially painful, about a half hour prior to the procedure a topical anesthetic cream can be applied.
Some people have particularly large veins, and this procedure is not meant to treat those kinds of veins. For those who need treatment for larger veins, laser therapy is thus an option. However, when it comes to the medicinal injections, on average two to four treatments will be needed. If a patient has only one or two mild veins, then the treatment process might be able to be completed in as little as one to two sessions.
After a person has had the procedure done, something that many patients have a question about is whether or not they should be walking around or staying off their feet. It is recommended that the patient walk, because it will give the injection more of an opportunity to work. However, it is important to note that high energy sports should not be played until about three days after the procedure has been done. As for how long in between each treatment session, in order to give the veins time to rest, the procedure will be spaced out over a period of weeks.
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