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Water procedures against varicose veins

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Last reviewed: 19.10.2021
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If you have been working all day and your feet are just buzzing, you should do water procedures for your legs. These procedures will be an excellent tool against varicose veins or its prevention.

Healing douche

Wet wrapping

The complex of water procedures includes wet wrapping - a very effective remedy for varicose veins. On their wet socks should also wear woolen. After these actions, lie comfortably on the bed and wrap yourself in a warmer blanket. Take precautions, get rid of drafts in advance of health in order to avoid colds.

If there is a desire, you can apply the wrapping of the legs up to the knee cups. Dampen the bandage in water, it should be room temperature. Wrap your feet with this bandage and lie down under the blanket. This helps to remove swelling, swelling, relieves stress from the vessels and muscles of the legs.

Healing douche

With painful fatigue of the legs, peculiar to people with varicose veins, therapeutic douche is applied. Before going to bed, immerse your legs in a basin or some kind of a bath and pour them abundantly with a strong stream of water. Legs should be poured from the fingers and to the knees.

Adhere to temperature regimes, water temperature can vary from 16 to 20 degrees Celsius.

Leech the water alternately at the top and bottom of the legs, kneecaps - then caviar. Water should massage your tired feet. A wide and smooth stream will cover your feet, spreading evenly, delivering real pleasure from the dousing procedure. Your feet will enjoy and charge energy.

Massage and self-massage with water

Remember that this foot massage should be alternated with other procedures. Today massage the calves, kneecaps. Tomorrow, pour your feet along their entire length. Repeat the procedure for several days for maximum effect. This method is an excellent gym to strengthen your vessels and increase their strength. Improves blood flow, as well as the general condition of the body.

Foot baths

This is an excellent method of preventing colds and diseases associated with leg fatigue. A cold foot bath is when the water temperature is at most 20 degrees Celsius and below. Do not take this bath for more than 5 minutes. Otherwise, you risk catching a cold. A hot foot bath is when the water temperature reaches 40 degrees or more. The hot bath should be used within 10-15 minutes.

The most desirable effect for tired legs is obtained from contrast baths. To achieve this, alternate a hot bath with a cold one. Within 10-15 seconds, take a bath with cold water, and vice versa, 30-40 seconds - with a hot. Repeat the water temperature change at least 5 times, complete the procedure with a cold bath. This will relieve fatigue from the feet, reduce irritability of the skin. Tempers the vessels and strengthens the walls of the veins.

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Baths with herbs for legs

In order to let the legs rest and relieve pain, take sage baths. The temperature of these trays varies from 35 to 37 degrees Celsius. Twice a week apply this treatment. The treatment period for varicose is 12-15 procedures. 250 ml of sage pour into a volume basin with water, this amount of sage will be needed for one tray.

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Baths with salt

If your legs get tired quickly, if they have swollen and swollen veins, it is very useful to take baths for feet with salt. The main thing is that thrombophlebitis at this time was not in its acute stage. After this stage, you can take salt baths after 3 months. So, to treat varicose veins, you need to dissolve a handful of salt in a canvas sack. Do it this way. The salt is placed in a pouch, a hot bath is taken and a stream of water is directed to the salt. The salt dissolves and enters your bath. At the same time the water temperature in the bathroom reaches up to 38 degrees Celsius.

Keep her legs up to 20 minutes, if not very good condition - enough and 10 minutes. Baths with salt should be taken every 2-3 days. Fifteen such salt baths will be enough to relieve the symptoms of varicose veins and reduce its grip.

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