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Dr Ahmed Shalan
Revela Clinic
Can you stop bleeding varicose veins?
Bleeding from varicose veins is an emergency. In this video, Mr. Ahmed Shalan explains how pressure and elevation can control bleeding and when urgent care is needed.
Transcript
Varicose vein bleeding is a medical emergency.
You need to act on it as soon as possible to stop it from becoming a serious condition.
It's very simple to stop the bleeding of a varicose vein.
You just need to press on the vein really hard and elevate your leg as much as possible.
What you're trying to do is, you're trying to compress the vein and give it time to form a small blood clot to stop the bleeding.
And when you elevate the leg, you take off the pressure from the vein and reduce the risk of having it bleed.
If you have varicose vein bleeding, that doesn't stop.
You need urgent medical attention.
And bleeding varicose vein will benefit really well from the treatment as you don't want the risk of having another incident of bleeding from varicose vein.