2 Treatments For Varicose Veins
If you notice that you start seeing small, blue or purple spidery looking veins on your lower legs, you may have varicose veins. These veins are small surface veins that have have become enlarged and that are too full of blood. This generally happens because the valves in the veins no longer work the way that they should.
The valves in your veins are one-way, and they are supposed to keep the blood flowing through them, and not let a backflow occur.