Question:
Is there any way to get rid of &/or prevent spider veins in the legs? Would rather not resort to laser surgery, though.

Answer: -There, in fact, is. I was reading on a website about some other skin condition when I ran across something about spider veins. It said that you can go to your doctor and they can inject some sort of medicine into your legs and that will get rid of them. I would talk to your doctor if I were you and ask about the injections. -It seems as one gets older all the skin vessels all over the body become more prominent. Some are just enlarged deeper veins others are very small arteries or veins very close to the skin surface. Their treatment depends on which category they fall into & where on the body the lie. Red colored blood vessels above the collar bone usually respond well to flashlamp lasers although more than one treatment may be required to control these pesky critters. Occasional maintenance treatments may be required to keep them at bay. This modality has proven to be ineffective on the limbs & torso. This is probably due to water/blood pressure keeping these other vessels open while we spend most of the day upright. These vessels lower on the body respond better to injection sclerotherapy whereby concentrated solutions of sugar &/or salt water are injected to clot off the vessel. Again maintenance treatments may be required & sometimes there is some fine tuning of the injected solution. You want a solution that is strong enough to clot off the vessel but not so strong that it kills the skin.