Causes Of Spider Veins
Causes of spider veins can happen for various reasons, mostly it is age, once you reach your 40′s you are more susceptible to them, hereditary, a low fibre diet, pregnancy, standing or sitting for long periods at a time, birth control pills, excessive alcohol, medication and smoking.
Get Rid of Spider Veins
- Exercising is very good to help keep the blood circulating.
- Jump with a skipping rope for 1 min to start and work up to 5 min, or do lots of walking.
- If you have a job sitting for long periods of time, stretch your calf muscles every now and then.
- Maintain a healthy weight.
- Don’t soak in a hot bath, as this increases vein swelling and leads to blood pooling.
- Wear compression stockings.
- Don’t cross your legs.
- Cut down on salt.
- Putting feet up on a chair, so they are above the hip.
- Massaging legs with a massage oil, lanolin or St Johns Wort oil. Massage in an upward motion with your palms or using fingertips, do a slow and hard massage.
Remove Spider Veins
- Horse Chestnut (helps strengthens blood vessel walls).
- Apply witch hazel extract to the veins a few times a day, by soaking a cotton wool ball.
- Horse Tail tincture, about 20 to 60 drops 3 to 4 times a day.
- Applying Apple Cider Vinegar morning and night, saturate a cloth and apply as a compress for about 30 min. .
- Ceyanne Pepper is good for improving circulation.
- Ginkgo Biloba 50:1 standardized extract, around 40 mg three times a day.
Some people get them because they suffer from weak vein walls and poor blood circulation within the metabolic system (which enables the bodies continuing growth and function).
The beating heart pulses blood through the arteries, which provides nutrients and oxygen to the body tissues. Blood returns to the heart by the veins; the veins have tiny valves on their inner walls to prevent blood from flowing backwards, therefore the blood must flow up the veins in the legs against gravity.
If these valves don’t work properly, it causes poor circulation and blood accumulates in the veins, causing spider veins and varicose veins.
Preventing Spider Veins with vitamins such as; pycnogenol, Vitamin A, Vitamin C 1,000 to 2,000 is the recommended dosage, Vitamin E, Zinc, B Complex, MSM and Chlorophyl, this helps to strengthen blood and help revitalize circulation in the legs. Chlorophyll is rich in vitamin K and helps stop blood clotting. It is because of poor circulation the blood does not have enough oxygen to nourish the veins.
There are many creams on the market to supposedly help be a cure for this type of vein problem. I tried skin doctors vein away for many weeks, way more weeks than they advertise, cost me a fortune, and it didn’t make a bit of difference. That’s not to say it may not help you.
Having laser treatment and Sclerotherapy are two ways to help remove spider veins, but be mindful spider veins usually creep back again.
The best way to get rid of spider veins is using witch hazel extract and apple cider vinegar.
You do need to eat well, exercise and take the recommended vitamins so you can help prevent many of the causes of spider veins.
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I think getting rid of spider veins is good thing because they look awful. Eating the right food is the better to prevent spider veins from appearing. Thanks for the information.