Hemeroid Remedies

Hemeroid remedies are usually practiced as first step in treating hemeroids. Standard hemeroid remedies includes prescription or over the counter medications and surgical procedures, and are most often dependant upon the condition severity. However, mild hemeroids can be treated by employing simple changes in bowel habits and most cases do not require hemeroid surgery or specialized treatments unless hemeroids have become extremely painful.

These hemeroid remedies as treatment includes the following:

• Strive for soft and easy bowel movements. The most effective hemeroid remedies against hemeroids is to go right to the source of the problem. More often than not, on top of every rear end with hemeroids sits a person grunting and groaning. If it's news to you that passing one's stools is not supposed to be a long and arduous affair, you've likely got hemeriods. Huffing and puffing on the toilet provides just the kind of strain needed to engorge and swell the veins in your rectum. Hard stools then make matters worse by scraping the already troubled area. Solution? Drink lots of fluids, eat lots of fiber, and refer often to the following remedies.
  

• Oil your inner workings. Once you've increased the fiber and fluids in your diet, your stool should become softer and pass with less effort. You may help your bowels to move even more smoothly by lubricating your anus with a dab of petroleum jelly, using a cotton swab or your finger, apply the jelly about 1/2 inch into the rectum as your hemeroid remedy.
  

• Clean yourself tenderly. Your responsibility to your hemeroids shouldn't end when you're through moving your bowels. It's extremely important to clean yourself properly and gently. Toilet paper can be scratchy, and some types contain chemical irritants. Purchase only nonperfumed, noncolored (white) toilet paper, and dampen it under the faucet before each wipe.
  

• Elect a kinder, gentler toilet paper. If you've never heard of lubricated toilet paper, that's because it isn't sold yet. But you can find facial tissues coated with moisturizing cream—and these offer the most hemeroid-friendly backside wipe on the market.

• Don't scratch. Hemeroids can itch, and scratching can make them feel better. But don't give in to the urge to scratch. You can damage the walls of these delicate veins and make matters much worse for yourself.
  

• • Don't lift too heavy objects. Heavy lifting and strenuous exercise can act much like straining on the toilet. If you're prone to hemeroids, get a friend to help or hire someone to help you move that heavy objects.
  

• • Go soak yourself. The sitz bath—sitting with your knees raised in 3 or 4 inches of warm water in a bathtub—is one of hemeroid remedies that still tops the list of most experts as a way to deal with hemeroids. The warm water helps to kill the pain while increasing the flow of blood to the area, which can help shrink hemeroids.
  

• • Apply a hemeroid medication. There are many hemeroid creams and suppositories on the market, and while they generally will not make your problem disappear (contrary to what the ads may say), most are designed as local painkillers and can relieve some of the discomfort.
  

• • Choose a cream. Choose a hemeroid cream over a suppository any day. Suppositories are usually useless for external hemeroids, and even for internal hemeroids because suppositories tend to float too far up the rectum to do much good. So better look for hemeroid creams out there as your hemeriod remedy.
  

• • Work wonders with witch hazel. A dab of witch hazel applied to the rectum with a cotton ball is one of the very best remedies available for external hemeroids, especially if there's bleeding, "Barbers use witch hazel when they cut you—because it causes the blood vessels to shrink down and contract.
  

• • Try ice treatment. Try anything cold, even water, can help kill the pain of hemeroids, give your hemeroids a special treat by putting a bottle of witch hazel into a bucket of ice, just as you would a champagne bottle. Then take a cotton ball, soak it in the witch hazel and apply it against your hemeroids until it's no longer cold, then repeat. This is also the one of the fast action hemeroid remedies as it numb your hemeroid upon contact with ice.

• • Watch your weight. Because they have more pressure on the lower extremities, overweight people tend to have more problems with hemeriods just as they do with varicose veins.
  

• • Control your salt intake. Sure, you like your french fries covered with salt, but it can make your hemeroids worse. Excess salt retains fluids in the circulatory system that can cause bulging of the veins in the anus and elsewhere.
  

• • Avoid certain foods and drinks. Some foods, while they won't make your hemeroids worse, can contribute to your anal misery by creating further itching as they pass through the bowels. Watch out for excessive coffee, strong spices, beer, and cola.
  

• • Pregnant? Take the pressure off. Pregnant women are particularly prone to hemeroids, in part because the uterus sits directly on the blood vessels that drain the hemeroidal veins. A special hemeroid remedy if you are pregnant is to lie on your left side for about 20 minutes every 4 to 6 hours so, you decrease pressure on the main vein draining the lower half of the body.
  

• • Give it a little shove. Sometimes the word hemeroid refers not to a swollen vein but to a downward displacement of the anal canal lining. If you have such a protruding hemeroid, try shoving it back into the anal canal. Hemeroids left hanging are prime candidates to develop into clots.
  

• • Sit on a doughnut. We're talking about a doughnut-shaped cushion, here as hemeroid remedy. They are available in pharmacies and medical supply stores and can be useful to hemeroid sufferers who do a lot of sitting.
  

• • Try the ClenZone. This little appliance attaches to your toilet seat and squirts a thin stream of water into your rectum after every bowel movement. It gets you superclean and serves as a soothing mini-sitz bath at the same time.
  

Another hemeroid remedies are what they called fixative procedures, which cut off the blood flow to the hemeroids and uses rubber bands, lasers, heat, or chemical injections, are an option if you have internal hemeroids that bulge from the anus during bowel movements.

These are illustrated as follows:

• • Sclerotherapy: One of hemeroid remedies in which a chemical solution is injected around the hemeroid. The objective of sclerotherapy is to limit blood supply to the hemeroid, until the condition subsides and/or the hemeriod shrinks. The remaining scar tissue that has formed (resulting from the lack of blood supply and shrinkage of the hemeroid) minimizes the recurrence of the condition by supporting surrounding anal tissues.

• • Rubber-band Ligation: This is an outpatient procedure that is relatively nontraumatic. During the treatment a rubber-band is placed around the base of the hemeroid inside the rectum. Like sclerotherapy, the band cuts off circulation and causes the hemeroid to whither away within a number of days. More than one session may be necessary.

• • Infrared light: During this procedure, bursts of infrared light are used to inhibit blood circulation to small, bleeding, internal hemeroids.

• • Hemeroidectomy: This refers to the actual excision of the hemeriods and subsequent resuturing of any affected rectal mucosa. It is usually the last option of all hemeroid remedies and is only used if all other hemeroid treatment options have failed. It can be done on either an inpatient or outpatient setting, and requires anesthesia.

Following such hemeroid remedies stated above may help sufferers relieve from the pain and disturbing effect brought by hemeroids.