Varicose veins can be unsightly, and you're probably wondering what you can do to get rid of them. They generally show up in your legs but can be found in other parts of your body as well. Keep reading to learn more about varicose veins and treatment options.

Varicose Veins

Your leg veins have leaflet veins that are designed to work with the muscles of your leg in order to pump the blood out of your legs and up into your heart. The valves need the help from your leg muscles because they are fighting gravity to get the blood back up to your heart. Varicose veins are caused when the leaflet valves in your veins are unable to help pump blood up and out of your legs and so the valves fail and blood starts to pool and run backward in your veins. That will cause the veins to bulge and twist. It can also cause you to have pain in the areas around those veins. There are several kinds of treatments that you can use to help deal with your varicose veins. 

Treatment

If you have varicose veins, there are things that you can do to treat them. Some of the treatments can also help to prevent more varicose veins from starting. 

• Compression: One of the first treatments that you can try is to use compression. You can wear compression stockings or elastic bandage wraps on your legs. The compression that you get from the stockings or the wraps gives pressure which can help the leg muscles and veins pump the blood up and out of the legs. If you are on your feet a lot, you may want to go with compression stockings to just help your legs out. You can pick those items up at any pharmacy without a prescription. 
• Sclerotherapy: This is a medical treatment that your doctor can do for you in their office. What the doctor will do will inject a solution into small or medium sized varicose veins. That solution will scar up those veins and cause them to close. You should start to see some results within a few weeks, however, some stubborn veins may need to have more than one treatment. 

If you have varicose veins, you may not like the way that your legs look. They can be unsightly and painful. However, there are treatments that you can take advantage of so that you don't have to have the veins or the pain associated with your varicose veins.