Best Hemorrhoid Treatment

The most common symptoms associated with hemorrhoids piles are pain, burning, itching, inflammation, irritation, swelling, bleeding, and mucus discharge.

Frequency of Hemorrhoids

Estimates of the prevalence of the condition vary from 50% to 80% for adults. In the USA it is estimated that more than 30% of the entire population suffer from hemorrhoids to some degree. That amounts to about 100 million people!

In fact hemorrhoid piles are so frequent amongst men women and children that some doctors regard them as a normal condition.

The condition of hemorrhoids could be attributed to the lifestyle we live in the industrialised countries of the world. The condition is almost unheard of in countries where people follow a more old-fashioned lifestyle and natural diets.

Research showed that most people start to develop hemorrhoids in their twenties but the symptoms only surface during their thirties.

However what is so surprising about the situation is that many millions of people are suffering from the condition yet we are still too embarrassed to ask for hemorrhoid help and/or even openly discuss the most basic of body functions and conditions.

Hemorrhoids Itching

Itching is usually not caused by hemorrhoids except in cases when there is a mucous discharge from prolapse hemorrhoids. A hemorrhoid is said to be prolapsed when it is protruding outside the anus and are often the cause of pain and/or bleeding.

More often than not anal itching is actually caused by irritating surrounding anal tissue with too much use of rough toilet paper, and/or other causes such as; candida albicans, parasitic infections, and food allergies.

Hemorrhoids Painful

Painful hemorrhoids are usually only the result of acute inflammation of external hemorrhoids. The reason for this is that the internal anal channel does not have sensory nerves and therefore no pain is experience from internal hemorrhoids.

However it is important to note that occasionally problematical internal hemorrhoids may cause pain.

Bleeding Hemorrhoid

This condition is almost always due to bleeding internal hemorrhoids and bleeding may occur any time before, during, or after defecation.

Bleeding from an external hemorrhoid is usually caused by damage of an acute thrombosed external hemorrhoid.

Thrombosis Hemorrhoid

A thrombosis hemorrhoid occurs when a hemorrhoid was damaged (ruptured) and formed a blood clot (thrombosis). Sometimes a prolapse hemorrhoid can be cut off (strangulated) from blood supply by the anal opening’s contracting actions which cause it to become filled with blood clots or thrombosed. External hemorrhoids are usually the only ones that get thrombosed.

Note: “Strangulated hemorrhoids” are extremely painful and will usually require medical attention if it is uncomfortably large or thrombotic (blood clot).