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