{"id":3093,"date":"2012-12-02T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2014-10-29T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:58:23","slug":"avoid-bulging-veins-brought-on-by-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/avoid-bulging-veins-brought-on-by-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Bulging Veins Brought on by Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3094\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/arekd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3094\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3094\" title=\"arekd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/arekd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: arekd on Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Traveling this holiday? Of course you are! (Well, at least most of you are).\u00a0\u00a0Holiday travel often means sitting at airports and traveling for hours on end.\u00a0Unfortunately, sitting for long periods of time can cause poor circulation which can lead to unsightly veins, and we&#8217;d all like to avoid that.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Luis Navarro, director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veintreatmentcenter.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Vein Treatment Center <\/a>put together effective tips that can help avoid poor blood flow from sitting too long on an airplane, in a car or on a train while traveling for the holidays.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AVOID PROLONGED PERIODS OF SITTING AND STANDING:<\/strong> Walk up and down the plane\/train every 1-2 hours, when possible, for 5-10 minutes<\/li>\n<li><strong>GET\u00a0 EXERCISE:<\/strong> ankle and lower leg exercises, such as ankle rotations<\/li>\n<li><strong>WEAR GRADUATED COMPRESSION STOCKING:<\/strong>Wear stockings, preferably knee highs with open toe, 15-25mm\/hg or 20-30mm\/hg<\/li>\n<li><strong>STAY HYDRATED:<\/strong> Double your water intake when traveling<\/li>\n<li><strong>AVOID ALCOHOL:<\/strong> Alcohol dehydrates, so avoiding alcohol a few days before taking a long trip would be a good idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ESiQsnbUIPE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traveling this holiday? Of course you are! (Well, at least most of you are).  Holiday travel often means sitting at airports and traveling for hours on end. Sitting for long periods of time causes poor circulation, which can lead to unsightly veins, and we&#8217;d all like to avoid that.  Dr. Luis Navarro, director of The Vein Treatment Center put together effective tips that can help avoid poor blood flow from sitting too long on an airplane, in a car or on a train while traveling for the holidays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,19],"tags":[112,431,441,587,1064,1330,2367,2708,2795,2817],"class_list":{"0":"post-3093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-beauty","7":"category-fitzness-travel","8":"category-holidays","9":"tag-airplane","10":"tag-bulging","11":"tag-bus","12":"tag-christmas","13":"tag-flight","14":"tag-holiday","15":"tag-sitting","16":"tag-travel","17":"tag-veins","18":"tag-waiting"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Avoid Bulging Veins Brought on by Travel - Fitzness.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/avoid-bulging-veins-brought-on-by-travel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Avoid Bulging Veins Brought on by Travel - Fitzness.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Traveling this holiday? 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