| Hemorrhoids occur when the veins is the | | | | caused when a blood vessel bursts just under |
| rectum become swollen and cause irritation. | | | | the surface of the skin near the edge of the |
| Hemorrhoids, in most instances, are a minor | | | | anal canal causing severe pain during and |
| medical problem. They can be uncomfortable | | | | after the passing of a bowel motion. Sometime |
| and painful and can cause much embarrassment | | | | later, a painful lump appears that becomes |
| to the sufferer. However, they are easy to | | | | red, sore, and inflamed. These are sometimes |
| treat and are often cured without too much | | | | referred to as thrombosed piles.Skin tags |
| pain.Hemorrhoids are often referred to as | | | | around the anal canal are not uncommon or |
| piles, a term that is applied to a number of | | | | painful but can cause problems with personal |
| different conditions of the anal canal. Most | | | | hygiene. They are often diagnosed and treated |
| commonly, however, it refers to hemorrhoids. | | | | as external hemorrhoids but treatment is not |
| It is also used to describe anal fissures or | | | | really required.Another condition that is |
| tears, clotted external hemorrhoids, and | | | | sometimes wrongfully diagnosed as hemorrhoids |
| flaps of extra skin or skin tags on the | | | | is a condition known as anal fistula. The |
| anus.The rectum is connected to the outside | | | | main symptom is a discharge of fluid, often |
| by a short tube called the anal canal which | | | | like pus, but there is seldom much pain, |
| is the last part of the large intestine. The | | | | bleeding or a lump. This condition usually |
| first part of this canal is lined with mucous | | | | appears as a result of an abscess in the |
| membrane and the latter part is lined with | | | | lining of the anal canal, causing an abnormal |
| skin which is very sensitive to pain. This | | | | connection between the outer skin of the anal |
| canal is circled by a ring of muscle which is | | | | canal and the inside of the canal. This |
| tightly contracted but relaxes to allow a | | | | causes secretions to leak out through the |
| bowel movement. This muscle is called the | | | | rectum. Treatment of internal hemorrhoids can |
| anal sphincter.Hemorrhoids can be internal or | | | | take several different forms. They can be |
| external. Internal hemorrhoids are in the | | | | injected with a substance that makes them |
| higher part of the anal canal. The veins | | | | shrivel up if they are only small. Another |
| swell and continue to increase in size over a | | | | method of treatment is by shrinking the |
| period of years. They may be caused by | | | | hemorrhoids through a process of freezing, |
| prolonged straining to pass bowel motions and | | | | using a cryoprobe. Yet another method is to |
| can be exacerbated by pregnancy. They are | | | | apply tiny rubber bands to cut off the supply |
| usually characterized by bright red bleeding | | | | of blood to the hemorrhoids.There are some |
| that occurs at the end of passing a motion | | | | home treatments that are worth noting as they |
| and they are usually relatively painless. If | | | | can be very helpful. These are taking a warm |
| the hemorrhoids become bigger, they may come | | | | bath with a handful of salt dissolved in it |
| out of the anal canal and can be quite | | | | if the hemorrhoids prolapse or appear |
| painful because of being strangulated or | | | | externally as lumps. Alternatively, if the |
| squeezed by a tight anal canal.An anal | | | | hemorrhoids become strangulated, you can |
| fissure is a split in the anal canal, | | | | apply a plastic bag of crushed ice to the |
| possibly caused by straining when | | | | enlarged hemorrhoids to ease the pain.A diet |
| constipated. This causes extreme pain when | | | | high in fibre is very important to keep the |
| passing bowel motions and may be so bad that | | | | gastrointestinal system working well and to |
| the person fears passing a motion. Often, | | | | avoid the discomfort of hemorrhoids as well |
| these fissures heal of their own accord but | | | | as assisting in the general wellbeing of your |
| sometimes a minor operation may be | | | | body. |
| required.External piles or hemorrhoids are | | | | |