Swelling legs on long flights during the holiday season...Female half venous circulation disorder experience
Jul 22, 2025
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When you fly long distances or walk for a long time in a travel destination, you may experience pain in your legs and swelling. This is not just fatigue, but it may be a venous circulation disorder in which blood flows backward or stagnates due to decreased elasticity of leg veins, so caution is needed. In particular, when the weather gets hot, peripheral blood vessels expand to control body temperature and symptoms can worsen, so prevention and management are important.
Venous circulation disorder is a disease that occurs when the connective tissue of venous blood vessels that return to the heart weakens and valve function decreases, causing blood and body fluids to flow backward or stagnate on the leg side. Symptoms such as swelling, pain, and numbness are accompanied, and this condition is also called chronic venous insufficiency (CVI).
According to a survey commissioned by Dongkuk Pharmaceutical to Korea Research last year, 47.9% of women have experienced venous circulation disorders, and 61.3% of them have neglected them. Moreover, the experience of symptoms during travel is more likely to be mistaken for leg fatigue and left unattended.
Venous circulation disorders are usually not completely resolved with temporary massage or poultice, so if symptoms persist, hospital visits and medication are necessary.
"If you have symptoms of swelling and numbness in your legs during a long trip, it is better to suspect venous circulation disorder and treat it with drugs that act directly on venous blood vessels in your legs rather than leaving it unattended," said an official from Dongguk Pharmaceutical Co., which is in charge of improving symptoms of venous circulation disorder "Cencia."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
