SPRING OFFICIALLY ARRIVES
TOMORROW SO WE CAN START
SHEDDING LAYERS OF CLOTHING.
SOME DREAD EXPOSING THEIR
LEGS.
I TRIED TO COVER THEM UP
SOMETIMES. I WOULD EVEN PUT ON
MAKEUP TO TRY TO COVER THEM UP.
SHE'S TALKING ABOUT UNSIGHTLY
VARICOSE VEINS.
ABOUT 25% OF US HAVE THEM BUT
THE CONCERNS MIGHT BE MORE THAN
COSMETIC INCLUDING AN INCREASED
RISK OF BLOOD CLOTS. ANGELA
WALKS US THROUGH THE
COMPLICATIONS THAT COME FROM
BULGING VEINS.
THESE ARE THE TYPICAL
APPEARANCE OF A LARGE VARICOSE
VEIN.
WE CAN SEE THEM IN THE BACK OF
THE KNEE OR IN THE CALVES.
IT'S THE KIND OF THING YOU
HOPE NO ONE NOTICES BUT IN SOME
CASES THEY ARE HARD TO IGNORE
BECAUSE THEY ARE PAINFUL.
HE IS A VASCULAR SURGEON FOR
ALINA HEALTH.
THEY ARE USUALLY RELATED TO
ACHING IN THE LEGS, TENDERNESS
OR PAIN AFTER THE VEINS.
PATIENTS WILL TELL ME THAT IT
HURTS AND BY THE END OF THE DAY
THAT ONE SPOT OVER THE VEIN.
SHE'S A NURSE WHO SPENDS A
LOT OF TIME ON HER FEET.
THAT'S ONE OF THE FACTORS THAT
CAN CAUSE VARICOSE VEINS OR
MAKE THEM WORSE.
THAT IN PREGNANCY.
MY CHILDREN NOTICE THEM,
THEY PUT THEM OUT. WHAT DO
THEY SAY?
MOMMY HAS AN ALLEY ON HER
LEG.
SHE UNDERWENT A SURGICAL
PROCEDURE TO GET RID OF THEM
AND YOU CAN BARELY SEE THEM
ANYMORE, AND SHE'S FREE OF
PAIN.
THIS IS FROM THE PROCEDURE?
THERE'S ONE THERE.
SHE ALSO WEARS COMPRESSION
SOCKS WHICH ARE HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED TO IMPROVE THE
CIRCULATION OF BLOOD IN THE
LEGS.
THEY HELP KEEP BLOOD FROM
PULLING IN THE VEINS.
THEY COME IN LOTS OF
DIFFERENT COLORS.
YOU CAN FIND THEM ONLINE.
A RECENT STUDY PUBLISHED IN
THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN
METAL IS SO-- MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION FOUND PEOPLE WITH
VARICOSE VEINS MAY HAVE A
HIGHER RISK OF DEVELOPING
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS BLOOD
CLOTS DEEP INTO THE BODY AND IS
CALLED DVT.
THE VALUE OF THE RESEARCH
SHOWS THAT THERE'S PROBABLY A
STRONGER ASSOCIATION WITH THE
VARICOSE VEINS AND THE DEEP
VEIN THROMBOSIS THAN WE
PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. HENNEPIN
COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER. HE
REVIEWED WHAT WAS FOUND AFTER
HE LOOKED AT HEALTH RECORDS OF
MORE THAN 425,000 PEOPLE IN
TAIWAN AND SAY THEY DON'T MEAN
THERE'S EVIDENCE THAT THEY
CAUSE BLOOD CLOTS BUT--
BECAUSE IT COVERS A LARGE
POPULATION, IT ADDS WEIGHT TO
THE FACT THAT WE NEED TO STUDY
IT MORE.
AND BECOME AWARE OF WHEN YOU
SHOULD SEE A DOCTOR.
IF YOU HAVE AN INCREASE IN
YOUR LEG SIZE AND ITS SWOLLEN
AND RED AND PAINFUL, THIS IS AN
EMERGENCY AND YOU NEED TO GET
