Compression Stockings – Medical Hosiery Support
ByCompression Stockings – Chronic Venous Insufficiency
By Wes Anderson
This illness is caused due to the malfunction of the vein’s valves in legs. This causes decreases in the returning quantity of blood that goes upward towards the heart from the legs. The first symptom of this disease is called Edema. This leg ulcer should best be treated using the compression socks instead of the surgery along with therapeutic measures if it is chronic in nature.
In compression technique we use elastic stockings to press the lower limbs together. These are of different kind like rigid, multilayered, and the elastic ones. Each one of these is used depending on what the condition of the patient is and which stockings will best suit him. The best hosiery to be used in this regards is the graded one and considered the best to serve the purpose. The treatment is done for a multipurpose function. First it helps to control the symptoms. Secondly it helps in ulcer healing. Third it also helps the patient prevent him from the recurrence of the disease. Lastly it enables the patient to walk again in a normal way.
Before the physician can make any recommendations on the type or degree of compression for the stockings to be put to use by the patient, he would first thoroughly examine the patient and determine the extent of damage done by the disease. Afterwards he would suggest the type and compressions of stockings needed by the patient. Some of the treatments which the physician suggests to the patients include: complete bed rest at home or in the hospital for the patient with legs raised above the heart level for patients severely affected by the disease.
Antibiotic is suggested in case the patient is suffering from Cellulitis (that is a condition in which tissues under the skin and the skin itself are effected), if there is a wound the physician applies Hydrocortisone cream to the area around the wound but not on the wound. Dry gauze dressing is made along with cleaning with soap & water for protection against germs and also elastic compression stockings are worn all the time below the knee except when going to bed. All these help the patient recover and maintain the proper flow of blood upwards.
Wes Anderson heads the Sales Department at http://www.compressionstore.com
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