Varicose Veins On the Body
Varicose veins are not only found on the legs. Generally, they occur in the lower half of the body. Varicose veins affect both sexes, although women are much more likely to have them on the legs. Varicosities, as they are also called, can also be found on the labia or vulva. Varicose veins of the anus are nothing more than a hemorrhoid, which afflicts both sexes.
Hemorrhoids can be a genetic predisposition, but can also be caused by weight gain that puts more load and strain to the requisite parts, fatty, salty, unhealthy diets, constipation and straining at stool among others. Hemorrhoids can bring on bouts of pain, pruritis (itching), and bleeding. Sometimes, surgery is the only cure, but in researching this article, an old folk remedy was found on a well-respected midwifery site that sounded so mad it just may work. Raw potatoes, cut either in a more comfortable wedge-ish shape,, or whittled into a suppository shape, are said to give incredible relief to the hemorrhoid sufferers by drawing out the swelling. No one could really say how it worked, but many midwives and others testified to its efficacy. There has never been recorded a case of potato-anal poisonings, so suffice it to say, try it-who’s to know?
Vaginal varicose veins, or vulval varicose veins, or labia varicose (the labia being the small lips of flesh that are found on either side of the vaginal opening), is another condition that can be aggravated by pregnancy, and then resolved a few months after childbirth. The varices (or varicosities) however, can show up anytime. Symptoms are itching, pain, and a sensation of prolapse (the feeling as though something has fallen down, or out) being the most common. Symptom relief includes lying down with legs and buttocks elevated and ice packs. Avoiding constipation, adding more fiber, fruits, vegetables and drinking more water, is important, as well as getting some kind of physical exercise such as trying to walk or swim daily. You can try gaining some vulval support by wearing a pair of maternity support hose that you put on while still in bed and wearing them whenever you are up and about.
Wearing several sanitary pads inside a panty at one time or wearing close fitting biking shorts are helpful to some, but some need still more support. A foam rubber pad cut small inside their underwear helps others. There is a support garment that can be bought specifically for vulval varices over the internet also. There are also those who swear by cutting that foam rubber pad to fit comfortably and then using a very good friend of the male persuasion’s jock strap to fit the foam padding up close to the body.
Well, while some of the information in this article may strike some as a little eccentric, necessity is, as they say, the mother of invention. Far be it for anyone who has not experienced exquisite pain emanating from a part of the body that no sane individual would want to feel pain from, throw the first potato.
