The doctor warned about the danger of self-medication for thrombosis

Georgy Traeger, a doctor and vascular surgeon at the Russian Railways Medicine Limb Rescue Center, dispelled the main myths about venous diseases on Thursday, February 19. He warned against self-medication for thrombosis and varicose veins.

"There is no such thrombosis that hurts a little bit. Varicose veins are a chronic condition that is gradually getting worse. And thrombosis is always an acute condition that occurs suddenly and dramatically changes the patient's quality of life," he stressed in an interview with Radio 1.

The surgeon emphasized that many patients make the fatal mistake of trying to warm or stretch a diseased vein. It is absolutely impossible to do this.

"If you start kneading the varicose vein that has become congested in your leg, you can push the blood clot higher, and it will fly into your lungs with all the ensuing consequences. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to heat or rub such legs. We need to call an ambulance and go to the doctor," Traeger warned.

The doctor also told how blood moves through the veins, and what self—medication can lead to: blood collects from the veins of the lower extremities into the inferior vena cava, goes to the heart, and then into the pulmonary artery.It is there that a blood clot creates a deadly condition — pulmonary embolism (PE).

At the same time, the expert noted that a blood clot from a vein cannot cause a heart attack or stroke, since its path lies exclusively in the lungs.

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Cardiologist Anastasia Fomicheva said that the first symptoms of arterial thrombosis include severe pain, pallor, and numbness of the limb. She stressed that in this case, emergency surgery is necessary, the introduction of thrombolytic drugs, according to the website. kp.ru .

Earlier, on February 8, Medical Xpress magazine reported with reference to a vascular surgeon from the USC Heart and Vascular Institute (Keck Medicine of USC) According to Miguel F. Manzura, up to 40% of adults in the United States suffer from chronic venous insufficiency, a condition in which leg veins do not work properly and do not provide normal blood flow to the heart.

In December 2025, Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development, announced that the volume of high-tech medical care in the field of "cardiovascular surgery" in the capital has grown more than 50 times in 15 years, the Moscow City News agency reports.

She noted that patients have access to advanced medical options, including minimally invasive interventions to replace heart valves and install stent grafts for aneurysms, the use of ultrasound to destroy blood clots, the use of high-frequency current or low temperatures to treat arrhythmias, implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator.

In turn, Candidate of medical Sciences, dermatologist Irina Skorogudaeva warned in an interview with NSN that fat cells produce a variety of hormones that affect metabolic processes in the body. Among other things, the rheology of the blood changes, there is a tendency to thrombosis, clotting, and blood pressure increases.

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