What is ‘window dressing disease’?

Over time you may start to suffer from arterial problems, causing your blood vessels to narrow and the circulation does not flow normally or reach different parts of your body.

But what is intermittent claudication?

This problem appears, in most cases, in patients suffering from arteriosclerosis. It is a disease characterized by hardening of the arteries due to cholesterol and calcium deposits, which block the passage of blood through the arteries.

For this reason it is very important that the blood flow works properly and reaches the muscles of the arms and legs, otherwise the most common will be to suffer pain and muscle cramps.

In extreme cases, if intermittent claudication continues to evolve, it can cause intense pain even when we are at rest. There are other cases in which spots or ulcers appear on the skin because the blood flow does not reach the extremities correctly: hands and feet.

The patient can identify this pathology attending to some of the most common symptoms that can be of neurological or vascular origin. The latter also receive the name of peripheral arterial disease, since it is the result of an arterial insufficiency or serious circulation problem.

How to relieve pain?

As we have heard on other occasions, the most important thing is to exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet low in saturated fats, control sugar levels and give up bad habits such as smoking.

These recommendations will help reduce the intensity of pain and discomfort and only in some cases will require treatment by the cardiovascular surgeon. You can also prevent it.

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How?

By controlling cardiovascular risk factors and, in extreme cases, resorting to surgery.