Spider veins are thin, small veins just underneath the skin’s surface. They may be red or blue and radiate out from a central area like small webs. This sign of aging often appears on the legs. It may be concealed with longer and longer shorts until we either accept the veins or try to do something about them. Some topical treatments include vitamin K. Vitamin K helps blood to clot after an injury or surgery. Most people easily consume adequate quantities of this vitamin in common foods like leafy green vegetables, prunes, avocados and Brussels sprouts. Vitamin K may also be applied to the skin topically, swallowed in supplements or injected. Spider veins are extremely common, especially in women. Unlike varicose veins, they’re small and painless, but they can still be an affront to vanity. These tiny capillaries have been over-stretched to the point of permanent dilation, causing capillary walls to weaken and swell. Over time, they can increase in size. Spider veins, also called thread veins, are often hereditary and tend to multiply with age.
Other causes include pregnancy, obesity, estrogen replacement therapy, lack of exercise, sun damage and birth control pills. Opinions on whether vitamin K creams work vary drastically. Manufacturers claim that with repeated application, spider veins begin to fade in about six weeks. Once the veins disappear, you’re supposed to keep buying and applying the cream indefinitely to avoid reappearance of the veins. One cream explains that vitamin K applied topically seeps down to damaged capillaries and clots seeping blood. The tissue then heals. , whose board of advisors are physicians who specialize in veins, insists that scientific data doesn’t support these claims. Several other treatments are available for treating spider veins, but they are more invasive and more costly. Microsclerotherapy involves injecting a chemical into the spider vein that causes inflammation. Over a few weeks, the chemical destroys the vein, which makes it slowly disappear. Laser and intense pulsated light (IPL) can be used on veins that don’t respond to microsclerotherapy, or on sensitive places like the face.
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Emu oil penetrates deep to carry vitamins reducing spider veins on legs, arms and face. Vitamin K Cream is a potent combination of natural ingredients proven to help strengthen veins, improve vein wall function and health, and to fade unsightly spider veins. Vitamin K Cream is effective at removing and clearing complexion of facial spider veins - on the cheeks, nose and under the eyes. A concentrated Vitamin K Cream formulated with Aloe, Green Tea, Coconut Oil and Allantoin to soothe the skin while healing and protecting. Powerful antioxidants help protect from further vein damage while clearing coagulated and trapped blood in veins and capillaries. Vitamin K does a great job of getting to the source of the problem which is a leaking vein. This leaking vein allows blood to get through to the skin's surface. Vitamin K makes the vein clot. It does not do as good a job on varicose veins because they are raised. It often helps but does not totally get rid of the problem as it does for spider veins.
Slightly hydrate and moisten skin with warm water. Apply twice daily to affected area, bruises, dark blood vessels, and spider veins. Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Vitamin K, Emulsifying Wax NF, Aloe, Barbadensis (Organic Aloe) Leaf Juice, Kosher Vegetable Glycerin, Hellianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Cetyl Alcohol, Simmondsia Chinensis (Orgainic Jojoba), Emu Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil (and) Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Allantoin, Ascorbyl Palmitate Vitamin C Ester, Sodium Hyluronate, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Salix Nigra (Organic Black Willow Bark) Extract, Sodium Hydroxy Methyl Glycinate, Germall Plus Always apply the cream on cleansed skin. Use a mild cleanser and let your skin dry for a few minutes before you apply the cream. Step 2 Apply the cream Take an appropriate amount of the cream with your fingertips and apply it to the imperfection. In the eye area dot the cream no closer than an inch away to avoid irritation.
Massage the cream very lightly. Never rub the cream. A few weeks ago, I noticed a bluish vein on my thigh that wasn't there before. It was small, but still easily stood out against my pale skin. It was a spider vein. I wasn't exactly worried or anything. Unlike their cousins varicose veins, spider veins are rarely painful (this one wasn't), and they don't usually pose a health risk. But I'll admit that it made me feel self-conscious, and the thought of being on the beach next summer was already making me wince. So I did what any normal person would do in my situation, with the full knowledge that it was a terrible idea: I started Googling. (Lose up to 25 pounds in 2 months—and look more radiant than ever—with Prevention's new Younger In 8 Weeks plan!) Let's Stay In Touch Keep this field blank Enter your email address You may unsubscribe at any time. Within a few minutes, I found myself deep inside the Internet rabbit hole of spider vein treatments. Namely, creams that promised to erase my little spider vein with megadoses of vitamin K—a nutrient that's thought to play an important role in vascular health.
I've never been a miracle cream kind of person, but it made me wonder: Couldn't I just get the same spider vein–erasing benefits from eating more vitamin K-rich foods like kale? It seemed like a perfectly reasonable assumption. After all, a measly cup of raw kale packed more vitamin K than I needed in a day. Before I started guzzling green smoothies I reached out to Neal Reynolds, MD, founder of the Vein Clinic in South Carolina, who dashed my dreams of leafy greens. MORE: 20 Super-Healthy Smoothie Recipes "We have no evidence that vitamin K improves vein health," he said. In fact, in his 15 years of treating varicose and spider veins, Reynolds said that he couldn't recall having ever seen a patient who got rid of their spider veins by eating more vitamin K or using a vitamin K cream. So how did this rumor start? It's not totally out of left field: It's true that vitamin K does important things for your vascular system. Your body needs it to produce proteins involved in blood clotting.
Research also suggests that vitamin K2 (one of the 3 types of vitamin K, found in foods like meat, eggs, and cheese) can improve heart health by fighting atherosclerosis. But the processes that cause atherosclerosis—the hardening of arteries—are totally different from the ones that cause spider veins, Reynolds says. So just because vitamin K can help with one type of vein problem doesn't mean that it can help with another. MORE: Why Is Everyone Suddenly Drinking Aloe Juice? If I wanted to get rid of my spider veins, I'd need to consider treatments like sclerotherapy, says Reynolds. The procedure injects a chemical solution into the vein that causes the vein walls to close up, stopping the flow of blood and causing the vein to fade. To me, that seemed a little intense for one little spider vein. So instead, I decided to focus my energies on doing what I could to keep new ones forming. Namely, promoting healthy circulation in my legs by staying active, not sitting for long periods, keeping my legs uncrossed while I sit, and even putting my legs up when I'm relaxing on the couch.