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What are varicose veins?
Professor Alun Davies explains that varicose veins can affect up to 50% of the population and common symptoms include itching, pain and swelling of the pain.
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Varicose veins affect up to 50% of the population. Patients may have no symptoms at all but many will complain of itching, pain, slight swelling in the legs. At the further extreme of this people may get leg ulcers or develop thrombosis in the veins. It is very important that anybody who has symptoms in the legs that they think is related to varicose veins, that they discuss these with their GP and follow the NICE recommendations with a referral to a vascular specialist.
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