Modern medicine knows many diseases of different parts of the human intestine. For the rectum, the most common ailment is hemorrhoids. The first stage of this ailment is given more attention, because it is against the background of its course that you can quickly get rid of this problem. Symptoms of this disease in women and men usually cause a lot of trouble, interfering with an active and healthy life.
The essence of the disease
Hemorrhoids are often said to be the same varicose veins, but only occurring in the intestines. But from the point of view of medicine, things are somewhat more complicated.
Nodes, as a rule, become inflamed, falling out of the anal canal. The hemorrhoid is a special cavernous formation. There are only three of them in the rectum and exactly the same - on the outside. In the presence of normal blood flow and in the absence of adverse factors, the nodes are usually small in size, and the person does not feel their presence.
But what happens if blood circulation in the rectum is impaired?
Then there are stagnant phenomena in the blood vessels. Hemorrhoidal nodes can literally swell from excess blood. Without proper therapy, its stagnation can increase, bleeding develops along with inflammatory processes, infectious lesions, and so on.
Manifestations of hemorrhoidal disease can be very unpleasant, and at the same time, significantly painful. True, at the first stage of hemorrhoids, it will be more likely to cause inconvenience, on which people try to ignore. But this is in vain, since it is at this time that you can simply prevent hemorrhoids from developing to any serious form and prevent complications.
How is hemorrhoids of the first stage manifested in men and women? A photo of the rectum with hemorrhoidal nodes you can see in the article.
Symptoms and signs of pathology
The sensations, which will be discussed later in our article, are probably familiar to approximately eight out of ten patients. But the manifestations listed below do not at all mean that a person can inevitably develop hemorrhoidal disease of the rectum. True, it is highly recommended to listen to yourself and, at a minimum, take preventive measures.
In general, the symptoms of hemorrhoids of the first stage look like this:
- A person has a feeling of discomfort in the anus, especially after bowel movements.
- There is a sensation of crowded intestines, even if the bowel movement has just taken place.
- Characteristic is the appearance of burning, itching, tingling pain in the anal area, which intensifies with bowel movement.
- In some cases, you can observe drops of blood or the appearance of whole blood smears on feces or on toilet paper.
What hemorrhoids of the first stage looks like, not everyone knows.
But the last symptom indicates that the stagnation in the hemorrhoid has already led to thinning of the mucous membrane. The walls of blood vessels can become thinner and respond to any bleeding with irritation, for example, during exertion during bowel movements, passage of solid stool, excessively active peristalsis, and so on.
It is worth noting that the first stage of hemorrhoids is the most insidious. It can occur without symptoms at all. But with any suspicion of the development of the disease, you need to seek help from a doctor.
Hemorrhoids of the first stage can provoke some complications.
Complications in the first stage of the disease
If the first stage of hemorrhoids was diagnosed in men and women, then a proctologist should definitely prescribe treatment. Due to their own ignorance, due to bashfulness or simply because of inattention to their health, patients often miss this initial stage. And then the pathology begins to progress rapidly.
Overfilled chronically stagnant blood hemorrhoidal nodes are no longer held in place. Their displacement begins, followed by periodic prolapse from the rectal region.
At first, this happens against the background of physical effort, and later at absolutely any moment. For some time, the fallen node can be pulled into the rectum on its own, then its manual reduction is already required, but, as a result, this becomes impossible.
In all of the above situations, it is impossible to ignore the manifestations of hemorrhoids. Sometimes it is even very dangerous due to anemia that occurs after acute bleeding or various inflammations, as well as due to the threat of infection. A visit to a proctologist is best not to be postponed in any case, even if this is the first stage of hemorrhoids in women and men.
The causes of the development of the disease
The main cause of the first stage of hemorrhoids in men and women in medicine is considered a hereditary predisposition. And directly unfavorable factors become the starting mechanism:
- Passion for unbalanced diet, which is poor in fiber.
- The appearance of chronic constipation, due to which defecation can be achieved only after significant attempts.
- The occurrence of frequent diarrhea along with dyspepsia, irritating the mucous membranes.
- Small or excessive activity, which is dictated by the profession or the habit.
- The presence of pregnancy, which is accompanied by circulatory disorders, difficult childbirth, requiring serious efforts.
- Excessive love for long and at the same time hot baths.
- The patient's weight is higher than normal (in this case, a load on the blood vessels occurs).
- Man's addiction to tobacco, and also to alcohol.
- The appearance of diseases of the respiratory system that cause a strong and prolonged cough.
- The occurrence of anal and rectal tumors.
Diagnosis
Hemorrhoids are diagnosed at an early stage by conducting a digital examination. In addition, to clarify the diagnosis, a rectal mirror (called an anoscope) is used to examine the anal canal along with the rectal membrane to a depth of fifteen centimeters. The patient is also prescribed stool tests for the content of latent blood in the biomaterial.
The first stage of hemorrhoids, as a rule, helps to cope with complex therapy, which includes medication in combination with the use of folk remedies. In some situations, sclerotherapy helps get rid of hemorrhoids.
Traditional therapy
How to cure hemorrhoids in the first stage? It is important, first of all, to find out the causes of the disease, and, in addition, to conduct a thorough diagnosis. The diagnosis must be made by the attending physician. Only specialists can correctly outline the scheme of therapy and prevention.
How much time this illness will be treated depends largely on the severity of the pathology, and in addition, on the accompanying symptoms and the human body itself. Most often, the symptomatology disappears already on the fourth day after the use of medications.
The treatment of hemorrhoids at the initial stage always involves a whole therapeutic complex of measures. There are a lot of different drugs and other products at the moment, ranging from candles to ointments, creams, tablets, and so on. Plus, there are many prescriptions borrowed from traditional medicine, but in this case, a preliminary medical consultation is necessary.
And you also need to adjust your diet and lifestyle. It is imperative to balance the diet, losing weight. It does not hurt a patient suffering from hemorrhoids to acquire a couple of good habits. All who successfully cope with such recommendations, practically do not know the recurrence of this disease. At the very least, this will prevent the onset of the next stage.
Drug treatment
In the event that a person develops an inflammatory process, hemorrhoids are able to enter the acute phase. In this situation, it will be almost impossible to do without anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs. Among them, it is worth mentioning Lornosikam along with Ketoprofen and Ketorolac. According to the situation, the doctor may prescribe narcotic analgesics or the use of novocaine blockade.
What suppositories from hemorrhoids in the first stage will help?
The fight against blood stasis is carried out using general strengthening and venotonic agents, for example, created on the basis of micronized diosmin or rutoside. Among the drugs for hemorrhoids there are many combined drugs that act on several symptoms of the disease at once. For example, they anesthetize, and, in addition, relieve inflammation.
Folk remedies
Treatment with their help in most cases gives a positive effect in the first stage of hemorrhoids. In the presence of an internal form of the disease, the use of rectal suppositories from young potatoes helps very well, and with the external type, baths with medicinal herbs are used. The treatment of hemorrhoids of the initial stage at home will require the normalization of the digestive system along with physiotherapy and venotonic medications.
What should be done if nothing helps? Often in this case, patients require surgery. Removal of hemorrhoids is currently performed in just a few hours. In this case, the patient is not even required to go to hospital.
Prevention: how to prevent inflammation
Prevention of this disease is very simple! Conducting it is quite simple:
- To do this, you just need to enrich your diet with vegetables, and, in addition, fruits, dairy products and herbs. Do not get involved in spicy, spicy, oily and even more so fried foods.
- It is required to minimize or even better completely stop drinking alcohol, and, in addition, stop smoking.
- Drink plenty of fluids while avoiding dehydration.
- In the presence of sedentary work, it is required to regularly conduct a short warm-up to stimulate blood flow, and during exercise, you need to rest on time.
- Immediately after each bowel movement, it is advisable to wash the anal area with cool water.
It is important to note that there are serious intestinal diseases that are similar in their manifestation in men and women to the first stage of hemorrhoids (photo of the disease for aesthetic reasons is not posted in the article).
Reviews
Unfortunately, hemorrhoids are currently a very common disease, as evidenced by the many reviews that men and women leave.
Men write that when the first stage of this disease occurs, on the advice of doctors, they are mainly helped by medications, for example, Ketoprofen or Ketorolac.
Women, in turn, judging by their reviews of hemorrhoids of the first stage, prefer to turn more to traditional methods of therapy, for example, to the use of therapeutic baths. But be that as it may, it is worth noting that any treatment option should be negotiated with a specialist, because self-medication can harm.