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Spider Veins
Spider Veins
The Dilated blood vessels are also known as Spider Veins, it has a red or bluish color that will appear on the surface of the skin, especially the legs and occasionally the face. These vessels can become unsightly and can produce a dull aching of the legs after a expanded standing.
Spider veins may be observable as short, unconnected lines each about the size of a large hair, they may be joined in a scraggly starburst pattern, or they may look like a spider web or a tree with branches so it is named as Spider Veins. Larger dilated blood vessels may be serpentine and heaved above the skin surface. These larger veins are called varicose veins and frequently occur in association with poorly working valves in a major leg vein. They often occur in connected with spider veins and may not necessarily be visible on the surface.
The cause of spider veins is unknown, but they do tend to run in families and can also occur as part of certain diseases. Spider veins most often occur in healthy individuals. They are found in both men and women, but seem to be more prevalent in women. Female hormones, like estrogen and birth control pills, play a most important roll in their development and pregnancy is also a common cause of spider veins, since during pregnancy, not only are the female hormones at their highest level in a woman's life, but there is important back pressure on the blood, causing even small veins to swell. Spider veins on the face of fair skinned persons may be related to sun exposure.
Spider veins may be related to chronic sun exposure and exposure to extremes of temperature and wind, when it was occurred on the face. There are three solutions presently used such as sodium tetradecyl sulphate is mainly used for the large varicose veins as it is the most potent sclerosant, for the smaller reticular or spider veins polidocanol is generally used.
The heat from the high intensity laser beam or intense pulsed light device selectively destroys the abnormal veins. There are several ways to treat spider veins on the face. Lasers have been used successfully, alone or in combination with electric needle therapy. It is best for small veins in fair skinned people. The veins are sealed off with the application of electrical current using electric needle.
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