Pain in the Butt. How to Deal with Hemorrhoids?

This is very sensitive area of your body. Too private.area and decrease burning and itching.Remember that
Nobody likes when something is wrong over there.local anesthetics may cause allergy.Analgesics
However it happens.Hemorrhoids occur practically in(menthol, camphor) relieve pain and itching as
everyone. Though hemorrhoids cause problems in 1wellVasoconstrictors reduce swelling in the perianal
out of 25 people. Mostly those are people between 45area. Though they may have side effects. Better
and 65 years of age.You find a blood on toilet tissue.discuss with your doctor.Protectants (kaolin, cocoa
Bright red blood. Ok, now what? You do not knowbutter, lanolin, mineral oil, starch, zinc oxide or calamine,
why you bleed. It could be rectal cancer by the way. Itglycerin, etc) create a physical barrier to prevent
could be hemorrhoids.So? What are thecontact of stool and the skin. This reduces irritation,
hemorrhoids?They look like cushions. They containitching, and burning.Similarly, some agents - astringents -
blood vessels, some muscle and elastic fibers. Peopledry the skin. That helps to relieve burning, itching, and
often call them piles.Not everything over there is apain as well.To kill or at least suppress bacteria and
hemorrhoid. There could be other problems. Fissure,other organisms use antiseptics. Boric acid, phenol,
abscess, fistula, pruritus (itching), condylomata (sort ofresorcinol and many others can be used. Again better
hanging skin caused by viral infection), viral andto discuss with your doctor or at least pharmacist.
bacterial skin infections can happen in that, so sensitiveMany of these drugs are sold
area.It is worth to talk to your doctor.How would aover-the-counter.Corticosteroids. Corticosteroids
scenario of hemorrhoids look?A 46-year-old femaledecrease inflammation and relieve itching, but may
presents with complaints on rectal discomfort,cause skin damage. They should be used for few
occasional bright red blood on toilet tissue anddays only.Sitz bath may also help in relieving the
prolapsing tissue in of anal area. This is probablysymptoms.When those methods fail your doctor may
internal hemorrhoid.Another scenario brings a patientperform one of the following:Sclerotherapy (causes
who complains on severe rectal pain and prolapsedscarring of the hemorrhoid).Rubber band ligation. The
tissue.rubber band cut off blood supply and hemorrhoid heals
The severe pain happens in external hemorrhoids.with scarring.Side effects of any of the treatment may
The pain follows thrombosis (thrombosis is the bloodbe infection of fat and other tissues surrounding the
clot in your blood vessels).There are four degrees ofanal canal, especially if patient has diabetes cancer,
internal hemorrhoids.It may be interesting for you toAIDS.Another option - electrotherapy and infrared
know because first, second and sometime thirdphotocoagulation. Works the same way, cause
degree can be treated by banding only. Fourth degreescarring of the tissue.
and sometime third degree requires surgery.Do notCryotherapy uses cold to cause inflammation and
forget non-hemorrhoid causes of symptoms.scarring. Practically the same, though more time
To check with your doctor is worthwhile becauseconsuming.Let say your medical treatment fails. What
there could be other problems, including cancer or analdo you do then?
fissure. (By the way for anal fissure medical treatmentWell, you go to surgeon and treat it
alone may heal it in 90% of cases).How aresurgically.Operations are done in less than 10% of
hemorrhoids treated?Well first you need to understandpatients. Though it depends.Surgical procedures include
how do hemorrhoids happen. Several reasons lead toDilation. It is when surgeon stretches your anal
hemorrhoids:Constipation and extra strainingsphincter.Ligation. Often a Doppler probe helps to
Chronic Diarrhea and loose stoolsmeasures blood flow and finds the individual artery.The
Long sitting or standingdoctor ties off the artery.Sphincterotomy. It is when
Weight liftingsphincter is partially cut. Whole idea is to reduce the
Obesitypressure.Hemorrhoidectomy. Hemorrhoidectomy
Pregnancy and childbirthmakes sense for patients with third- or fourth-degree
Inherited tendency to hemorrhoids.So, avoid all this andhemorrhoids. The hemorrhoids are cut out.Stapled
you are free.Obviously this list of reasons is toohemorrhoidectomy. Stapler cuts off the ring of
wide.The list of measures is wide too.Increase the fiberexpanded hemorrhoidal tissue.There are different
in your diet.Eat more cereals, fruits, vegetables, grains,considerations why to do this and not that type of
etcPsyllium and methylcellulose are supplemental typestreatment. And vice versa.There are complications
of fiber.Exercise, avoid long standing or sitting, don't(pain, difficulty urinating, bleeding several days after
strain, keep the anal area clean.Increase liquids in yoursurgery, scarring, infection, stool incontinence).
diet.Use stool softeners, stool-bulking agents (not aComplications happen relatively rare, but they are still
tasty ones, but what can you do).Treat diarrhea withthere.
anti-motility drugs and fiber.Not every of theseBetter talk to you surgeon.I hope you be OK.You
methods are proved scientifically. Nonetheless they arewere not alone.It looks like Napoleon Bonaparte, Carter,
included in the standard recommendations forHemingway, Tennyson, Lewis Carroll also were
hemorrhoids treatment.To treat itching or discomfortsuffering from hemorrhoids.Aleksandr Kavokin,
you may use suppositories, ointments, creams, andMD1994 Russia,PhD1997 Russia - Immunology and
gels. You may find that all in your localAllergy, postdoc at Cancer Center at Med U of South
pharmacy.These products contain protectant andCarolina, postdoc at Yale - Cardiology, Molecular
anesthetics (pain relievers). Local anesthetics numb theMedicine.