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\u00a0The Varicose Veins<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The function of veins and lymphatics is to carry blood from various organs\u00a0back to the heart. Because the legs are well below the heart, blood has to flow in an upward direction through the leg veins. To make sure that this blood doesn\u2019t flow back downwards, the legs have one-way valves (non-return) in them. When these valves fail to function properly, venous blood stagnation occurs, as some of the blood will keep flowing back downwards and pooling of blood occurs in the veins, causing symptoms over a period of time in different stages. Ultimately, the sequence of the events is reflected as swelling in the lower limbs, itching and skin discolouration, superficial recurrent ulceration and chronic deep nonhealing ulcerations.<\/p>\n

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Varicose Vein is a not a disease. It is a normal natural physiological phenomenon of veins.\u00a0 A vein<\/em><\/strong> refers to any vein that is elongated, dilated, tortuous and knotted in appearance. (Etymology: Latin, varicosus:<\/em> full of dilated veins, from varic-, varix<\/em> means dilated vein ; first known use: circa 1730) . The father of medicine, Hippocrates (430 BC), seeing the grape-like appearance of the veins of legs, called it Varicose Vein, as \u2018Varicose\u2019 is a Greek word and the\u00a0 meaning is \u2018Grapes\u2019. But earlier, in 3500 BC, the Egyptians, seeing the appearance of veins as \u2018twisted snake’ described this disease as \u2018serpentine windings\u2019 which\u00a0 appeared more apt as regards the shape, appearance and behavior.<\/p>\n

The varicose veins include a number of diseases, other than those appearing on the lower limbs (legs)<\/strong>.<\/h5>\n

1. Piles (Hemorrhoids):<\/strong> When it appears near the ano-rectal region, it is called \u2018piles\u2019, and is the commonest cause of anal bleeding.
\n2. Esophageal varices:<\/strong> The veins around the junction of the esophagus and stomach become grossly swollen and may bleed. This may prove fatal as well. This usually happens in Chronic Liver Disease. Alcoholism is one of the common causes.
\n3. Vaginal varices:<\/strong> When it occurs in the vagina especially during pregnancy, this\u00a0 produces severe bleeding, during and after delivery of\u00a0 baby and may turn fatal.
\n4. Vesical piles:<\/strong> In disease of prostate gland in male, it can produce bleeding along the urine (Hematuria).
\n5. Varicocele:<\/strong> Twisted\u00a0 dilated veins along the spermatic cord and appearing like a bag of round worms in the scrotum is called as Varicocele. This may produce sub-fertility and dragging pain the scrotum.
\n6. Congenital Venous Malformations :<\/strong> This can appear anywhere\u00a0 in the body from head to foot. This can be within the body or outside, since birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0The Varicose Veins The function of veins and lymphatics is to carry blood from various organs\u00a0back to the heart. Because the legs are well below the heart, blood has to flow in an upward direction through the leg veins. To make sure that this blood doesn\u2019t flow back downwards, the legs have one-way valves (non-return) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3PjU5-2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drradhakrishnan.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drradhakrishnan.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drradhakrishnan.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drradhakrishnan.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drradhakrishnan.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/drradhakrishnan.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/drradhakrishnan.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drradhakrishnan.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}