Treatment For Hemeroids

Treatments for hemeroids are mostly very effective. If your hemeroids still a problem after one to two weeks talk to your doctor for possible treatment for hemeroids.

For many, hemeroids are an enormous embarrassment. But they really needn't be. Hemeroids are among the most common of all health ailments, striking an estimated eight out of ten of us throughout our lifetimes. Even Napolean suffered hemeroids. It is said that the distracting pain of the emperor's hemeroids contributed to his crushing defeat at Waterloo. But hemeroids don't have to be your Waterloo. Much like varicose veins, these swollen veins in the anus are partially hereditary, but they can also be caused by—and be remedied by—such things as diet and toilet habits.

Hemeroids are lumps or masses of tissue in the anus, which contain enlarged blood vessels. Hemeroids may be inside the anal canal (internal hemeroids), where they primarily cause the symptom of intermittent bleeding, usually with bowel movements. They may also lie just outside the anal canal (external hemeroids), where they primarily cause symptoms of swelling and sometimes discomfort. Swelling and discomfort may occur intermittently, when the hemeroids become especially irritated.

Listed below are some of suggestions while your treating your hemeroids.

• Strive for soft and easy bowel movements. The most effective strategy 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 hemeroids. 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 hemeroid 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 thus avoiding your hemeroids for further irritation.
• 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 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 heavy object thus avoiding too much pressure while lifting.
• Go soak yourself. The sitz bath—sitting with your knees raised in 3 or 4 inches of warm water in a bathtub—is a remedy 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 the swollen veins.
• 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 brought by your hemeroids.
• Choose a cream. Choose a hemeroid cream over a suppository. Suppositories are "absolutely useless," for external hemeroids, and even for internal hemeroids, suppositories tend to float too far up the rectum to do much good. So prefer hemeroid cream as treatment for hemeroids for better result.
• Work wonders with witch hazel. A dab of witch hazel applied to the rectum with a cotton ball is one of the very best treatment for hemeroids 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," so as to your hemeroids. While 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 such procedure.
• Watch your weight. Because they have more pressure on the lower extremities, overweight people tend to have more problems with hemeroids just as they do with varicose veins so better watch your weight to avoid such formation of hemeroids.
• 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 so try to control your salt intake while your on your process of treating your hemeroids.
• 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, says Dr. Townsend. By doing 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. 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 can also be use as one way of treatment for hemeroids. 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.
  

Although in many cases treatment for hemeroids involves steps that you can take on your own. But sometimes medications or surgical procedures are necessary. To illustrate more, cited below are some treatment for hemeroids you can choose if above hemeroid suggestion fail to give you relief. Also if a blood clot has formed within an external hemeroid, your doctor can easily remove the clot with a simple incision, which may provide prompt hemeroid relief. But for persistent bleeding or painful hemeroids, your doctor may recommend treatment for hemeroids as follows:

• Banding hemeroids. Your doctor places one or two tiny rubber bands around the base of an internal hemeroid to cut off its circulation and the hemeroid falls off. This simple procedure — called rubber band ligation — is done in the doctor's office and is effective for many people as their treatment for hemeroids.

• Sclerotherapy. A chemical solution is injected around the blood vessel to shrink the hemeroid.

• Infrared light. A 1- or 2-second burst of infrared light can cut off circulation to small, bleeding, internal hemeroids.

• Surgery. If other treatment for hemeroids haven't been successful or if you already have large hemeroids, your doctor can remove tissue in a procedure called hemeroidectomy. The surgery is done with either local anesthetic combined with sedation, a spinal anesthetic, or general anesthetic. It's usually done as an outpatient or overnight hospital stay. While you may experience discomfort after the hemeroid surgical procedure, medications can be used to relieve your pain. Soaking in a warm bath can also ease your discomfort. While some newer surgical techniques may decrease the amount of pain that some people experience.
  

So stop worrying, sit yourself down on a comfortable pillow, and try the above treatment for hemeroids suggestions which best suited for your condition.