| Is That Leg Pain Vein Weakness or Inactivity? |  |
By Lena Sanchez
If your feet are cold or your toes are purple, or leg, foot
cramps (charley horses) or pain when you walk just a
short distance. Swollen legs and/or feet? Maybe you
have varicose veins or spider veins? Is it caused by
inactivity or vein weakness?
These are all signs of circulatory problems in the
lower extremities, the legs. A sign that your leg veins
are not doing their job usually caused by any number
of things like smoking, inactivity, poor diet, family
genetics, high blood pressure, aging without
exercising, obesity or diabetes, chronic heart failure.
Reason for our lower veins becoming weak is very
simple. Our blood travels down from the heart into
our legs where there are valves that then pump it
back up into the heart again. The problem comes
when the blood has to go back up. Various problems
create circulatory problems with smoking being at
the top of the list. When you light up and puff on
that cigarette you create narrow veins throughout
your system creating weak veins with each puff
and the legs being the farthest from the heart is the
last to expand and recover. Recovery is not possible
in chain smokers before lighting up the next cigarette,
therefore setting up a serious situation for circulatory
problems.
Number two contributory to circulatory problems are
obesity that can bring on diabetes. Obesity is usually
caused by improper diet therefore setting up multiple
problems waiting to happen. This is on the increase
due to the increase in obesity!
Women beyond menopause for multiple reasons
appear to be high on the list of vein weakness as well.
Then there is just plain aging in those with sedentary
lives. As people get older they tend to slow down and
not get the exercise nor eat as they should this in turn
creates a circulatory problem also.
This is an ages old problem (no pun intended). For
many people the problem can exist for years before
detection or real 'nagging symptoms' appear. One of
the first noticeable circulatory problem sign is pain
with walking short distances, sometimes accompanied
by swelling along with the pain. Resting for a few
minutes and the pain goes away therefore letting it
go from your mind as well. Sometimes the only symptom
is leg cramps (charley horses). Not all leg cramps are
from vein insufficiency but if the pains do not subside
with conventional treatments the chances are great
that you are on your way to severe vein weakness
problems.
The first sign may only be swelling, itching and achy
discomfort that you feel when you walk. Later, tiny
spider veins can develop causing the smaller veins
to fail while going unnoticed. After a while vein collapse,
which affects the larger veins and then varicose veins
appear creating increased danger of blood clots and
heart risks.
In a Stanford University Study it was found that more
than 200,000 deaths occur in the U.S. yearly from weak
veins. That is no small number!
It is natural to want to slow down or stop activity when
pain occurs and when you do you are compounding
the problem. It has been found that ongoing sensible
exercise and weight lifting can correct numerous
health risks and problems. That alone will not correct
existing leg vein weakness and collapse but will do a
great deal to repair it in combination with a diet heavy
with fruit, especially citrus fruits.
The Stanford University Study found that leg vein
weakness is a severe threat to your health. It not only
affects your legs but your brain as well. Left untreated
you risk blood clots that break off and can travel to your
heart, which may cause a heart attack. Clots may also
travel to the lungs or maybe even create serious
blockages along the way and this can be devastating
to the brain as it receives 25% of its oxygen supply from
the circulation of the lower extremities.
What can you do about it? Most doctors can only offer
cover-up solutions of wearing cumbersome hard to put
on stockings, chemicals or vein-stripping. Fortunately
there are some less invasive and more effect natural
healthy solutions now available.
European and oriental scientists have found that certain
Flavonoids promote healthy leg vein circulation! Two
compounds found in flavonoids that give the benefits
necessary are diosmin and hesperidin.
Diosmin is the flavonoids found in citrus fruits such as
lemons, oranges and limes.
Hesperidin, also called vitamin P, is naturally occurring
nutrients found in many other fruits.
It is a known fact that people simply are not eating their
fruits and vegetables to prevent health problems. This
is not to say you can restore health to your veins if you
start eating large quantities of fruit, but to says eat fruits
daily to prevent the problem from arising along with
exercising. Be the best you can be.
Strengthen those veins and smooth out weakness
with herbs and minerals naturally. For My recommendation
mailto:health@antibiotic-alternatives.com?subject=VeinStrengthRec
If you smoke stop NOW!
For online help to stop smoking
http://www.envirodocs.com/autoresponse and scroll
down to "Stop Smoking." Immediate instructions for
preparing to stop smoking and daily instructions to
become a non-smoker will be sent out.
Wishing you a healthy long life!
Lena
***Lena Sanchez a happy retired Medical Office
Nurse/Administrator/Consultant who took charge of
her life 8 years ago and is committed to helping
others do the same in all areas of life. Editor of
'Natural Environmental Health Facts & Your Home
Business Coach Ezine" Newsletter subscribe at
http://www.envirodocs.com/newsletter.htm Author of
Three health building books.
|
|
