You can stop blood pooling in your legs by elevating your legs.
When seated you should raise your legs up by placing the legs on a footstool or something else to keep them raised up and avoid crossing your legs.
Pooling of blood in the legs can occur due to standing or sitting for too long or being inactive.
Exercising and even just walking around can also help prevent pooling of blood in the legs.
Blood pooling in your legs is also known as chronic venous insufficiency occurs when your leg veins don't allow blood to flow back up to your heart.
Normally, the valves in your veins make sure that blood flows toward your heart.
But when these valves don't work well, blood can also flow backwards.
This can cause blood to collect (pool) in your legs.
Deep vein thrombosis is a serious complication of blood pooling.
DVT occurs when a blood clot forms deep within your veins.
If DVT remains undetected, the clot can throw and lodge itself in your lungs.
This issue is called a pulmonary embolism and can be life-threatening.
Normally, valves in your leg veins keep blood flowing back up to your heart.
But CVI damages those valves, causing blood to pool in your legs.
This increases pressure in your leg veins and causes symptoms like swelling and ulcers.