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Dr Ahmed Shalan
Revela Clinic
Can lifestyle changes reduce varicose vein symptoms?
Lifestyle steps may ease symptoms of varicose veins. In this video, Mr. Ahmed Shalan describes how elevation, compression and exercise can reduce swelling, though treatment is needed to remove them.
Transcript
You can have a few lifestyle tips and tricks to help you to deal with the varicose vein symptoms.
However, varicose vein will never go away unless it's been treated surgically.
Things that you can do include elevation of your leg to reduce the swelling of the leg and to drain the blood from the leg back to the heart.
Using compression stocking, and that helps to squeeze the veins and avoid the veins from getting swollen, especially if you're standing for a long day.
Exercise, helping the calf muscle to be strong, is really important.
The calf muscles work as the pump that push the blood back to the heart.
So the stronger you have calf muscles, it can help with the symptoms that come from varicose vein.