Is There a Treatment for Hiding Veins on the Feet?

There is a delicate procedure where the veins can be directly excised. This seems to have the best effect for the veins themselves. Lasers do not work well for large veins. When the laser is turned up high enough to ablate larger veins, the overlying skin often gets burned. Often, veins...

Laser therapy is an ideal treatment for broken capillaries that are caused by sun damage or rosacea. These vessels can be heated using selective photothermolysis. Alternative treatments are less effective. Your experience is not typical of laser treatment for broken blood vessels.

This is an area of the face which rightfully provokes much anxiety and concern. Injecting medicine into blood vessels around the eye? Couldn't that cause blindness? Realizing that the anatomy of the periorbital tissues is separate and distinct from the eye is the first factor to consider...

For smaller spider veins less than 3mm,my office at the Dr.U Clinic in Los Angeles recommends using laser. This works by applying a specific energy wavelength (e.g. 1064nm of the Nd:YAG laser) which is absorbed into the tiny blood vessels by hemoglobin. The walls of the veins are then destroyed...

Polidocanol is a solution used for the vein injections called sclerotherapy. It is not FDA approved, but so far it is one of the best agents to treat spider veins or telangectasias. During the procedure a solution which is irritating to the vein is injected into the vessel with a very fine...

There are a several key differences between varicose and spider veins. Spider veins are smaller, usually less than 1 mm in diameter. Varicose veins are larger. Spider veins are superficial in nature (surface), whereas varicose veins usually involve the major veins of the legs. Spider veins are...