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| Difficult to Prevent You can take certain steps to lower your risk of developing spider veins—things like maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly (particularly walking), protecting yourself from ultraviolet light, and trying to not stand day-in-and-day-out for long periods of time. But even if you take all recommended precautions, you may develop these pesky and often unsightly veins anyway. That’s because some risk factors—your age, your gender, and your genes—are beyond your control. | | Treatment Options Once spider veins develop, no self-help methods will get rid of them. If you don’t like their appearance, your only option is to undergo some kind of treatment. Thanks to new technologies, a variety of effective treatment options are now available for removing these red or blue veins. It’s safe to remove these weakened and unnecessary blood vessels, for your vascular system will continue to work perfectly well without them. Accepted treatments for spider veins include the following: - Sclerotherapy. With this treatment, the physician injects a special medicine (sclerosing solution) into each vein targeted for treatment. The solution causes the vein to collapse and become less visible. As a remedy for unsightly veins, sclerotherapy is used almost exclusively on the legs and only rarely on the face.
- Laser therapy. This procedure delivers pulses of light onto the veins. The heat from the light seals off the spider veins, causing them to disappear. Laser therapy is considered the gold standard treatment for removing facial veins and telangiectasia.
- IPL (intense-pulsed light) therapy. Like laser therapy, this treatment delivers pulses of light to the veins, causing them to disappear, but IPL uses a broad-spectrum light rather than a single, focused wavelength. For this reason, IPL is not always as effective as laser therapy for spider vein removal.
- Creams. Various topical products are sold to "treat" spider veins. While cosmetically they might cover up the spider veins, they do not treat them.
Choose Your Physician Carefully Be sure to seek treatment from a knowledgeable and experienced physician—one who has special training in treating the skin and in using lasers and other spider-vein-removing technologies. The physician may also give you more than one treatment option and should explain the benefits and risks of each for your particular skin type. |
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 | | The Patient’s Guide strives to stay up-to-date on new and emerging topics in the field of vein treatment so you can rest assured that you are getting the latest information on the topic. All articles on the site are provided by and attributed to experts in the field of laser and cosmetic medicine. | | | >>More About the Patient's Guide | |
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