Varicose veins of the lower extremities after surgery generally need to rest for how long?

The varicose veins of the lower limbs usually need to stay in bed for 3-7 days after traditional surgery to avoid pain in the affected limbs after getting out of bed. However, prolonged bed rest may cause certain complications, especially the elderly are prone to pneumonia and deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremities. Because after surgical treatment, patients need to lie on their backs and elevate the affected limbs. When lying in bed, blood circulation is slowed down, the number of breaths is reduced, and the cilia movement in the respiratory tract is also weakened, so that the secretions in the respiratory tract can not be easily discharged, which in turn causes inflammation of the lungs. As blood circulation slows down, blood flow in the veins slows down even more, which can lead to thrombosis, the most common type of thrombosis being in the deep veins of the lower extremities.

Thrombosis in the deep veins of the lower extremities is more harmful than varicose veins of the lower extremities. Therefore, one should get out of bed as early as possible after lower extremity varicose vein surgery. Usually lower extremity varicose vein surgery is done under continuous epidural anesthesia (a kind of intralesional anesthesia), and the anesthesia requires bed rest for 4 to 6 hours after surgery. The time for activity after varicose vein surgery can be as early as 6 hours after returning to the hospital room after surgery.

The surgical incision will be a little painful when you start to move around, so you can ask the ward nurse or the doctor in charge for pain medication to reduce the pain. Starting activities at an early stage is not the same as non-stop exercise, but just appropriate activities that are within your ability. For example, walk around the bed, sit on the chair for a while. There is no need for prolonged activity, just a little activity is enough to prevent certain complications. After the activity, you still need to stay in bed and elevate the affected limb. In bed, you can also move the ankle (ankle) and knee joints, or tense the muscles of the lower limbs and then relax them, etc., are a kind of activity. No matter what the disease (in addition to the need for some special treatment), the bed-ridden sedentary approach is absolutely not desirable.