The facts surrounding external hemroids treatment
Hemroids (hemorrhoids) are caused due to high pressure put on the veins around the anus. In cases where this pressure is constant and the restriction is kept upon the veins, they may begin to swell and bulge. As it bulges it becomes inflamed and painful. A little like blowing up a balloon, except that every time you blow it up and let it down it gets a little less springy.
A person may have both internal and external hemroids. External hemorrhoids tend to be a lot more painful than internal ones, because internal ones are in places where there are far fewer pain receptors. There are many external hemroids treatments that should be tried before resorting to surgery. The best hemroids treatment is a change of diet to a more balanced diet with plenty of fibre, as well as more fluids and regular moderate exercise. Surgery will become necessary as an affective external hemorrhoids treatment if the hemorrhoids become too painful or uncomfortable or if a clot forms.
External hemroids may be treated with rubber band ligation. This was an idea that first came about from the neutering of male sheep. In basic terms they put a small band around the external hemorrhoid. The blood flow stops completely and the hemroid dies off and drops off. The scar tissue that surrounds the ex-hemorrhoid holds the nearby veins and tissue into place. There is also infrared coagulation. This uses a high powered infra-red light to create scars around the external hemroids. The scar tissue then holds the veins in place. There is also injection sclerotherapy which uses powerful chemicals to burn the tissue around the hemorrhoids that are too small to band up. This newly formed scarred tissue will hold the various small hemroids in place. When external hemorrhoids are too big a doctor may opt to cut them off and this is known as aexisoinalhaemorrhoidectomy. This is normally the last resort for doctors who are unwilling to perform the other procedures because the recurrent hemroids are too large.
There are also smaller procedures used to treat external hemroids. This may be done during the surgery that removes bigger external hemroids. This is where the doctor will use a circular stapler to lift and secure the hemorrhoids into their normal position and to reduce blood flow. In most cases this will cause them to shrink. A doctor may also use ultrasound to guide them to the hemorrhoids and to the veins and arteries that supply them. The veins or arteries are then tied off so that the hemroids do not swell up and in most cases will die off.
Larger external hemroids may be cut off with a scalpel or laser, where the upmost care will be taken so as to not damage the surrounding nerves and muscles. Often the surgically treated areas may be covered with gauze and dressing. Most are sealed, cauterised and stitched up with stitches that dissolve after approx 1-2 weeks. There is also external hemroids treatment which uses an electric device to cauterise (burn) off the hemorrhoids. They may also be frozen of with cryosurgery.
