Untreated Hemorrhoids – Treatment Options
It’s estimated that about 100 million Americans suffer from hemorrhoids even though you rarely hear about it in the mainstream media. Many people suffer in silence, undoubtedly due to embarrassment and an unwillingness to seek help. But the good news is, there is hemorrhoid treatment that can be done to prevent and cure hard external hemorrhoids.
So what are hemorrhoids anyway?
There are two types of hemorrhoids: external and internal.
When the hemorrhoidal veins in our anal areas get irritated, these veins can get inflamed or swollen, and even bleed. When that happens you have the condition commonly called hemorrhoids. External hemorrhoids generally appear as a soft lump around your anal opening and are also known as thrombosed external hemorrhoids. There are times that you will even have hard hemorrhoids externally if the swelling gets bad enough and you do nothing about it. When they get this way it really sucks and the pain is terrible. It hurts to stand, sit, move or have normal body functions involving this area.
Internal hemorrhoids on the other hand are not generally painful since there are no, or very few pain-sensitive nerves in that part of the body. You may know that you are having this condition with the presence of blood in your stool as you do your daily business. Sometimes, this type of hemorrhoid can become inflamed and irritated to the point that it is pushed outside the anal opening in a condition called prolapsed hemorrhoids.
Typically, internal hemorrhoids can be divided into four stages or degrees of development.
1. In the stage one, small hemorrhoids develop on the lining of the anal canal. For most people, this is not noticeable unless hard stool scraping on their surface causes slight bleeding.
2. In stage two, a small portion of the hemorrhoids may protrude out of the anus during bowel movements. However, the connective tissue of the anal canal is still strong enough to spontaneously draw the hemorrhoids back within the anus.
3. In stage three, the painful hemorrhoids remain in a prolapsed or protruding condition and can be carefully put back inside the anus by hand.
4. The most serious and advanced development of hemorrhoids is stage four. At this point, a large amount of hemorrhoids permanently protrude out of the anus. In this debilitating and very painful condition, emergency surgery may be required.
Bottom line is there are treatments available to prevent, curb and cure thrombosed external hemorrhoids. These hemorrhoid treatment options are simple if done at the first signs of external hemorrhoids flaring up.
