6 Ways To Reduce Your Need For Varicose Vein Treatment

Varicose vein treatment has gotten much easier in the last two decades. However, it's still something one should strive to avoid when possible. Here are some tips on how to avoid varicose vein treatment.

Stay Out of the Sun

Direct sunlight on your skin can damage your veins make them easier to become twisted and distorted, and thereby varicose. If you like to walk on the beach, wear light pants instead of shorts of a swimsuit. You may also want to look into sun protective clothing with a UPF 50+ rating, especially if you have sensitive skin and varicose veins run in your family. Sometimes it seems like a catch 22 because you're told you can get your vitamin D3 from sunlight but then you're told to wear sunscreen or stay out of the sun completely. A good compromise is cover your legs but also let the sun it your face and arms for five to ten minutes before you cover them up or put on a good sun hat.

Wiggle Your Toes and Feet

Sitting is the worst position for increasing your chance of developing varicose veins and needing varicose vein treatment? It's very easy for your blood to pool and your circulation to slow in this position. If you have a desk job that you are tied to for several hours at a time, make it habit to wiggle your toes and feet frequently! Do toe curls and move your feet in circular motions or up and down at the ankle. When you do get a break, even if it's a short stint to the bathroom, try to do a few toe rises to get your calf pump working. You'll be surprised at how big a difference just a few seconds of exercise can make in warding off varicose vein treatment.

Lose Some Weight

Okay, you don't have to become model thin to make a huge difference to your health! Even if you are quite overweight, you can save a lot of work for your veins if you lose just ten percent of your weight. Plus, once you lose that first ten percent, it's actually much easier to lose more! You'll get lots of compliments and you'll feel so much lighter on your feet, you'll be encouraged to lose more because you'll find doing so not only good for your vein health but also fun.

Cut Down On Salt

The sodium in salt will make your legs swell which puts more pressure on your veins. If you want to avoid varicose vein treatment, or delay it as long as possible, you should start tapering off on your salt intake now. If you eat out a lot, you're probably getting too much salt because restaurant chefs tend to over salt food. Try cooking at home more. You can also switch to Himalayan salt or Real Salt, which is mined out of an ancient sea bed. These natural salts produce less edema than industrially processed salt most Americans consume.

Get an Inversion Table Or Inversion Chair

If you've never seen one, google it and study some photos because inversion tables are wonderful for relieving edema and taking pressure off your veins. Basically, it's a contraption that allows you to SAFELY invert yourself. Full inversion is one hundred eighty degrees, or ninety degrees past horizontal. However, you don't usually ever invert quite this much. When you're first starting, it is recommended that you invert twenty to thirty degrees past horizontal. Just this amount of inversion can actually reduce your edema by a lot. An intermediate inversion is about sixty degrees beyond horizontal. Some people stop here and just invert for longer, especially since they find it so relaxing. However, if you are ambitious, you can work up to a full inversion. You don't have to be super limber to do inversion if you have an inversion table. An inversion chair makes it easier than an inversion table to get inverted and to become upright again.

Wear Knee High Compression Socks

First, you should know that knee high compression socks (which actually stop just below your kneed) will give you about eighty percent of the therapeutic effect as thigh high compression stockings. So, unless you have a very serious edema problem, knee high compression socks should work fine. Compression socks are very tight around the ankle and then get loser as they move toward the knee. This makes the blood more upward instead of pooling around your ankles. Compression also forces the blood at the surface into deeper veins which increases your circulation.

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Strategies for Stress-free Travel with your Children

Travelling with children can be very rewarding, and very fun – you can help them to experience the world, and see it yourself in entirely new ways! But it can also be quite stressful. Travelling is bad enough for an adult; you can see why it would be terrible for a child. While some people resign themselves to limited travel until their children are older, and others resign themselves to even more stress while travelling, some people choose a third path. They try and find ways in which they can travel without the associated extra stress levels. It can be done. Many people have done it before, and many people will do it in the future.

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Travel Early

          While traveling can be done at any time of day (or, increasingly, night), parents are advised to travel either as early as possible, or as late as possible. Travelling at these times means there is less chance of a delay or a mix-up, because they are less sought-after, and so there are less problems with passengers getting lost, and held up.

          Less risk of delays means a less stressful environment, both for the children (who don’t get bored, hungry, tired, or some combination of the above), and the parents (who otherwise have to deal with a bored, hungry, tired child on top of their own frustration and boredom). It means that everybody will make it through the travelling period with less risk of being stressed by the end of it.

Read Reviews

          The internet has given us a great opportunity to share our experiences with others in the form of review sites, and social media. Parents who want to travel should check out review sites and other site such as AllWorld.com for ideas on what methods of travel work best with children, who can give the necessary accommodations, when it is best to travel, and so on. These reviews can also give them good ideas on how to avoid methods of travel which aren’t any good, for one reason or another.

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Don’t Seat Children Near the Aisle

          This is especially dangerous in travel which offers hot food and drinks, such as an aeroplane. Seating children in an aisle, particularly if they are young, can be dangerous because it puts them within reach of potentially dangerous items. This is a risk which is doubled if the children are at the age to try and grab things, without understanding the consequences of their actions.

          Seating children at an aisle seat is also dangerous because it is easy for them to wander off. It only take a second for a child to disappear, leaving their parents unable to reach them. Children are at risk because they are so small, that people can often trip over them without realising, particularly if they are carrying things. Granted, children won’t be able to get far, especially on a plane, but it is something that most parents would prefer not to need to deal with.

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Cleaning tips for timber floors

Keeping your hardwood floors in tip-top condition will make them look better for longer.

You can cut your over-all floor cleaning time by starting with some preventative maintenance. If you place mats both inside and outside exterior doors, it will help lessen the amount of tracked in dirt. Prevent marks to your floor from furniture by using floor protectors under legs – especially chairs, and use a rug for children to play on so toys don’t scratch the floor.

Speed up the whole cleaning process by dusting over your floor first with a static mop, or one that has been treated to pick up dirt and dust and pet hairs that may scratch the surface of the floor. For weekly cleaning use a vacuum with a floor-brush attachment, don’t use a vacuum with a carpet brush attachment as it can scratch the surface of your hardwood floor. For a quick dusting use a disposable electrostatic cloth and be sure to use both sides.

Unfortunately, over time dirt, grime and oil will build up on the floor which isn’t removed weekly when you dust mop the floor. For an occasional *deep clean* use a wood cleaning product that has been diluted, using a sponge mop that is rung well, so it just feels slightly damp to the touch and then damp-mop the floor, be careful NOT to stand the bucket of water on your floor, rinse over with a clean damp mop, but only if the cleaning product requires it. If you find any excess liquid on the floor wipe it up straight away. Standing water can damage wood surfaces. If it’s humid use a ceiling fan, air conditioner or open your windows to help speed up the drying.

When it comes to removing a mark, first look at the finish on your floor. If the stain is sitting on the surface your floor probably has a *hard* finish. If the stain has penetrated the wood, the floor probably has a soft oiled finish. This is common in older homes where the wood hasn’t been finished and resealed. Wipe any surface stains from a hard finish with a soft, clean cloth. Never use steel wool or any harsh chemicals on such a surface as they can permanently damage the finish.

Timber floors are stunning to look at, and, for those suffering from allergies timber is an increasingly popular flooring choice. Unfortunately, timber does come with its own set of cleaning *quirks* and it will require some special care, to keep your floors looking better for longer.

Remember hot water is a no-no! Too much can ruin your floors. Excessive wet patches can not only stain timber flooring, it can also result in warped or expanded boards! The correct mop and mopping techniques will go a long way in protecting and preserving your flooring investment.

Remember:

Wring!

The mop will need to be as dry as it can possibly be, so make sure you keep wringing out as much of the moisture as you can, use only a slightly damp mop. Using a mop and bucket combination that has been designed to help with wringing/drying the mop will make this a lot easier for you. Your floors will also dry a lot faster!

Follow the grain

Mopping in the same direction as the wood grain, makes mopping easier, more effective and ensures imbedded dirt is easily picked up.

Use a good *solution*

Find the right cleaning product for your floor. A lot of people use a water/vinegar mix, if you care about your floors, never add harsh chemicals like bleach or ammonia. Instead using a little soap, or a proper wood floor solution will ensure dirt is being lifted from the floor and that beautiful timber shine comes through.

Use the right mop

There are a lot of mops out there and choosing the right one for you can be difficult. The good news is, there are a range of mops on sale, that have been designed especially for cleaning timber floors with all the right features to ensure your floorboards are being looked after. Just look for a mop that has been designed for timber floors, you can always try a few different mops and cleaning combinations until you find the one that’s perfect for your floor.

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