About sclerotherapy
If you have varicose veins or spider veins, the best method is sclerotherapy. This involves injecting concentrated salt solution to treat spider veins and varicose veins without surgery. The clear saline solution irritates the inside lining of the unwanted veins. This irritation results in the patient’s own body shrinking and eventually removing the undesirable vessels.

This process almost always takes repeat sessions ideally spaced about two months apart. Although needles are used, they are the smallest available and therefore minimally painful. An average session usually takes about half an hour and there is no downtime.

What causes varicose veins?
Pregnancy, standing still for long periods, heredity and hormones will contribute to the vessels forming. If your mother or father have these vessels, you are also likely to get them. As with everything, prevention is always better than cure. Start treatments early to prevent the vessels from progressing to a larger size and greater extent.

If removal of the current vessels is complete, it will take the next lot of vessels as long to grow in as it did the ones you have now. You may not need another treatment for 5 years or more. If the veins are not completely removed, they are likely to grow back as there is still something to grow into. For this reason, it is best to complete the session of treatments until all or most of the spider veins are gone.

For practical reasons, we inject all the vessels that need treating at one sitting. This also reduces the number of times you have to attend for treatment. The cost is $275.00 per session. In most cases Medicare rebate is not applicable.

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