What Causes Spider Veins? Symptoms, Risk Factors, Treatments

Spider veins are dense clusters of damaged blood vessels or broken capillaries that appear just underneath the skin’s surface. Spider veins are extremely thin blood vessels, and they don’t bulge out of the skin’s surface. They usually appear on the legs and lower extremities of the body, but they can also appear on the face, feet, arms, and other parts of the body. Patients often say spider veins look like a mass of spider webs spreading outwards.

Patients often conflate the terms “spider veins” and “varicose veins.” While both spider veins and varicose veins are essentially dilated or damaged blood vessels, they have some distinct differences worth noting.

• Spider veins are extremely thin blood vessels or broken capillaries, whereas varicose veins are large and puffy blood vessels. Varicose veins are significantly larger than spider veins.
• Spider veins never bulge out of the skin’s surface, but varicose veins always protrude out of the skin’s surface. Patients often say varicose veins look like bulging ropes on the legs.
• Spider veins may or may not be caused by underlying chronic venous insufficiency, but varicose veins are always symptomatic of underlying chronic venous insufficiency.
• Spider veins aren’t dangerous in and of themselves, but varicose veins can be dangerous.

Sclerotherapy is widely considered the best minimally invasive spider vein treatment in New Jersey. Sclerotherapy involves injecting a sclerosant medicine into the unhealthy spider veins to irritate the vein walls, turning the spider veins into hardened scar tissues eventually reabsorbed by the body. Over time, your body metabolizes the spider veins, and they fade away from the skin’s surface. The accumulated blood reroutes into healthier leg veins to restore optimal blood circulation to the heart.

Sclerotherapy is a cosmetic treatment for spider veins, which means it only removes the visible spider veins without addressing the root cause of vein disease. Our vein doctors also perform duplex ultrasound scans to visualize the blood flow in your leg veins, diagnose underlying vein disease, and curate a personalized vein treatment plan that ensures optimal results. If you have chronic venous insufficiency, your spider vein treatment will be preceded by endovenous laser ablation, radiofrequency ablation, or venaseal.

Sclerotherapy is widely considered the best minimally invasive spider vein treatment in New Jersey. Sclerotherapy involves injecting a sclerosant medicine into the unhealthy spider veins to irritate the vein walls, turning the spider veins into hardened scar tissues eventually reabsorbed by the body. Over time, your body metabolizes the spider veins, and they fade away from the skin’s surface. The accumulated blood reroutes into healthier leg veins to restore optimal blood circulation to the heart.

Sclerotherapy is a cosmetic treatment for spider veins, which means it only removes the visible spider veins without addressing the root cause of vein disease. Our vein doctors also perform duplex ultrasound scans to visualize the blood flow in your leg veins, diagnose underlying vein disease, and curate a personalized vein treatment plan that ensures optimal results. If you have chronic venous insufficiency, your spider vein treatment will be preceded by endovenous laser ablation, radiofrequency ablation, or venaseal.

If varicose veins are left untreated, the symptoms of vein disease will continue worsening. You may eventually suffer from leg ulcers, skin discoloration, deep vein thrombosis, and other complications.

Yes. You should definitely get your varicose veins treated to prevent them from growing larger. If you don’t remove varicose veins, they may eventually burst and cause profuse bleeding.

If left untreated, varicose veins can lead to high blood pressure because of the continued accumulation of blood in leg veins.

High blood pressure can weaken the vein valves and increase the risk of chronic venous insufficiency, which can lead to varicose veins and spider veins.

Compression stockings can push some of the accumulated blood towards the heart, thus alleviating the worst symptoms of vein disease. But they can’t treat varicose veins.

New York Vein Treatment is a group of state-of-the-art medical centers for vein treatment in New York City. We have state-of-the-art offices in Midtown Manhattan and the Financial District. If you have spider veins, varicose veins, or other signs and symptoms of vein disease, please schedule your vein treatment in New York City.