It’s The Bridal Countdown…Reduce The Appearance of Spider Veins With Endogenous Laser Treatment
Endovenous Laser Treatment is a procedure carried out in order to reduce the appearance of spider veins present on your body. This treatment is used for cosmetic reasons and is mostly used to help in easing varicose vein related problems such as irritation in skin, aching, discoloration, inflammation, and swelling.
This therapy is even known by its proprietary name EVLT, VeinSeal and ELVes. Read on below to know more about this procedure.
What Is Endovenous Laser Treatment?
Endovenous Laser Treatment is the latest method of treating varicose veins present on your body without undergoing any kind of surgery. Instead of removing and tying the abnormal veins present in your body, this method makes use of laser and heats it. This heat tends to kill the walls of your veins, and then your body absorbs the dead tissues naturally thus destroying the spider veins.
The best part of this treatment is that it can be carried out in a single room instead of working in a large operating theatre.
Which Veins Are Suitable For Endovenous Laser Treatment?
Almost every person who deals with varicose and spider veins can get this treatment done. However, some patients are not suitable, and these include people who have small recurrent veins present after having surgery. They can make use of simple foam sclerotherapy instead of this laser treatment.
What Does The Treatment Involve?
Endovenous Laser Treatment starts with ultrasound being performed and the veins that have to get treated are marked. You lie on the couch with your legs all cleaned and covered; depending on the veins being treated, you may be on your front or your back where an ultrasound will be performed on you.
Since the word Endovenous means inside the vein, the doctor treating you will have to go inside the veins that need to be treated. Minute amounts of local anesthesia will be injected in your skin over the vein that has to be treated, and a needle will be inserted into it; a wire will then pass this needle and reach the top of the vein.
Your doctor will then remove the needle and pass a catheter over the wire all the way up to your vein and will remove the wire during this process. A laser fiber will then be passed on the catheter in such a way that its tip will be at the highest point that needs to get heated. Large amounts of anesthesia will be injected all around the vein that needs to get treated via tiny needle pricks.
All the people in the room during this treatment will be wearing proper safety specs as a precaution. The laser will then get fired up and pulled down on your vein for at least 5 minutes. You might hear a warning buzz ringing and may even taste and smell slight burning, but this treatment is not painful.
If you are getting both your legs treated, then this process will get repeated on your other legs as well. Once this is done, the laser and catheter will be removed, and the needle puncture will be covered up. This treatment takes around twenty to thirty minutes per leg; the doctor may place a compression stocking on your leg once this treatment ends.
What Will Happen After This Treatment?
As soon as this treatment is done, you will be able to go back home. It is advised that you do not drive but make use of public transport, have a friend drop you off or simply walk. You will be wearing the compression stocking for at least two weeks, and you will also be given appropriate instructions on how to take a bath.
However, you will be able to go back to work straight away or even get going with your normal activities once this treatment is done. You cannot swim or even get the area treated wet; most patients even feel tightening sensation on the treated vein, and some even feel pain in that area for a maximum five days after this session.
What Are The Benefits Of This Laser Treatment?
This treatment comes with many advantages for the person getting it; these benefits include:
- This treatment requires no surgical procedure at all; there is only a small nick done in the skin which does not require any kind of stitching.
- When this treatment is compared with other traditional vein stripping techniques then this laser treatment is more effective; it also has fewer risks and leads to less pain during the recovery process.
- Endovenous Laser Treatment is generally free from any kind of complications and is a safe process.
- This procedure leaves no scars on your body because the catheter requires the skin to open slightly for only a few millimeters and does not create any large incisions.
- Endovenous Laser Treatment also provides a less invasive alternative option to surgery
- Most of the veins that get treated by this treatment remain invisible even to ultrasounds; this effectiveness of this procedure lasts for around a year and even more.
- Patients who get rid of their veins due to discomfort find this treatment to be a relief and can return to their day to day activities; they feel no pain or discomfort during and after this treatment.
Conclusion
Endovenous Laser Treatment is one amazing treatment done to get rid of spider veins present in your legs, arms and other body parts. If you are thinking of undergoing this treatment, then do make sure you talk to your doctor about any other possibilities, chances of having complications, how many treatments you need and how much it will cost.
It is vital to be conscious of the risks of this treatment as well so that you can make an informed decision.
