Can medical elastic socks be stovepipe socks?
Regular medical elastic socks are developed by medical experts and textile experts. The materials are DuPont Lycra and cotton fiber. Elastic socks do not contain any medicine, but gradually reduce the pressure along the legs by establishing high support pressure at the ankles. This downward pressure trend is consistent with the pressure on the superficial vein wall of human body, which can effectively reduce or improve the pressure on veins and venous valves of lower limbs and make venous blood of lower limbs return from artificial high pressure area to low pressure area.
Varicose medical elastic socks have pressure gradient, which is different from stovepipe socks used at ordinary times and cannot be replaced by stovepipe socks.
Wearing stovepipe socks or stovepipe pants for a long time will affect the venous blood return of lower limbs and aggravate the superficial varicose veins of lower limbs.
How to choose varicose socks that suit you?
1. Looking for medical sequential decompression elastic socks.
There are many varicose socks on the market now, and there are also many counterfeit products. The first step we need to do is to identify whether they are medical varicose socks.
Because varicose socks belong to the second-class medical devices, they all need to be registered with the State Administration of Medical Supplies, so the identification method is very simple. According to the brand of varicose socks, go to some websites in National Medical Products Administration. If you go to the hospital pharmacy for on-site purchase, it depends on whether the medical device production license number is clearly marked on the package.
Secondly, in terms of wearing experience: wearing medical elastic socks, you will feel a pressure gradient-ankle pressure is the greatest, calf pressure is the second, and it is the smallest above the knee, and it will not affect the knee joint activity, and it will not wrinkle when sitting or squatting, which is comfortable and close to the body. If you feel that the pressure of the whole sock is basically the same after wearing elastic socks, it will not improve blood circulation, but will hinder blood flow.
2. Choose the length of elastic socks according to the lesion.
Varicose socks are divided into three types according to their length: stockings (below the knee), stockings (below the thigh) and pantyhose (below the waist).
If the patient only has varicose veins below the knee, he can wear varicose socks.
If the patient has symptoms above the knee, varicose veins need to wear stockings or pantyhose.
3. Pay attention to the elasticity and pressure of socks.
Principle: low-pressure elastic socks should be selected for health care and prevention of varicose veins; Mild varicose veins should be relieved and treated with elastic socks with moderate pressure; If varicose veins are serious, you can choose high-pressure elastic socks.
Pressure range of varicose socks
1. Primary hypotensive preventive health care type (15 ~ 25mm Hg): It is suitable for daily health care and prevention of varicose veins of lower limbs, venous edema, sedentary and high-risk people.
2. Primary medium pressure therapy (25 ~ 30mm Hg): suitable for patients with early varicose veins.
3. Moderate treatment of secondary hypertension (30 ~ 40mm Hg): it is suitable for patients with obvious varicose veins of lower limbs, severe varicose veins during pregnancy, deep venous thrombosis syndrome of lower limbs, irreversible lymphedema, etc.
4. Three-stage high-pressure intensive treatment (40 ~ 50 mm Hg): suitable for patients with high swelling of lower limbs, ulcer, blackening and hardening of skin, high lymphedema, and recovery after plastic liposuction.
Tip: People over 50 can choose a bigger size as appropriate.
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