In the eyes of many people, elastic stockings are used for body shaping by beautiful women. Wearing them can make your legs look longer and slimmer. In fact, it can not only meet women's needs for beauty, but for some special groups of people, it also has a health care function.

　　 Elastic stockings help prevent varicose veins

　　For people with mild to moderate varicose veins or high-risk people, wearing elastic stockings can help treat and prevent varicose veins. Medical elastic stockings help to promote venous blood and lymph to return to the heart. The biggest feature that distinguishes it from ordinary stockings is that it has a strong and uniform pressure gradient. After wearing such medical elastic stockings, the pressure gradually decreases from the ankle to the thigh, and the pressure on the thigh is the smallest. People with high incidence of varicose veins can use the external pressure exerted by the elastic stockings on the legs to resist blood stasis in the lower limbs and restore the function of the venous valve. Varicose vein stockings can be divided into long tube (ankle to root of thigh) and short tube (ankle to knee) according to their appearance. When buying, you can choose the size according to the thickness of the leg.

　　The correct way for people with varicose veins to wear elastic stockings

　　 The best time to wear sequential decompression compression stockings is when you get up in the morning, because the blood circulation is the best at this time and the swelling has not yet begun. Or raise your legs for 5-10 minutes before putting on elastic stockings. This action can prevent blood from returning, and the effect of this action is even more significant for long-term standing people. If you do not adapt to the tightness at the beginning, you can gradually wear the appropriate tightness. Because it is easy to wick away sweat in summer, you can apply prickly heat powder on your legs first, which has a lubricating effect and prevents the socks from tearing.

  Methods as below:

　　 1. Reach into the sock tube with one hand, pinch the heel of the sock, and turn the sock tube to the heel with the other hand.

　　2. Turn over most of the socks and stretch them smoothly so that the feet can easily reach into the toe of the sock.

3. Two thumbs on the inside of the sock, four fingers grasp the sock body, put the foot into the sock, two thumbs to hold the sock outwards, the four fingers and the thumb coordinate to pull the sock toward the ankle and place the heel of the sock correctly s position.

　　4. When putting on or taking off the elastic stockings, do not let the diamond ornaments or long nails scratch the elastic stockings. Close to the Buddha flat.

　　 Special care should be taken not to scratch the elastic stockings with diamond ornaments or long nails when putting on or taking off the elastic stockings.