Hemorrhoids are an intimate and unpleasant disease. Many patients are simply embarrassed to contact a proctologist with such a problem. Another part of people is sure that they do not have hemorrhoids at all, but parasites - and they spend money on useless antiparasitic drugs in their case. You can successfully carry out the treatment of hemorrhoids with folk remedies - reviews of thousands of people confirm this.
What triggers the development of the disease?
Hemorrhoidal disease is a varicose vein located under the rectal mucosa in the perianal zone. This is a very common disease.
About 60% of men over 30 and about 75% of women suffer from hemorrhoids. In reality, these statistics are even more, since many patients are embarrassed to speak frankly about the symptoms of the disease and do not want to make an appointment with a proctologist.
The main causes of the development of the disease in women:
- Pregnancy and childbirth: pressure on the pelvic organs increases, blood circulation is disturbed, many arteries are pinched. In addition, with independent birth there is a strong straining - this is simply fatal to the veins.
- Professional activity: sellers, hairdressers, postmen (all those who have to spend many hours in a row standing and stepping from one foot to another).
- Sedentary lifestyle: if you have to sit at a table in a comfortable chair for many hours in a row, be sure to get up every 60 minutes and do a light workout.
- Heavy and permanent physical exertion. This applies to ballerinas, professional dancers, trainers.
Men have even more factors for this unpleasant disease:
- Constant constipation and disruption of the gastrointestinal tract (most often the reason for this is malnutrition).
- Alcoholism. It has a detrimental effect on the walls of the veins and very quickly leads an unlucky drunkard to the second stage of hemorrhoidal disease.
- Passive lifestyle. Continuous sitting at the table for 8-10 hours disrupts blood circulation. Office workers need to do a small workout every 60 minutes.
- Bodybuilding and weightlifting are now very popular, but rarely does anyone know that almost every athlete has hemorrhoids due to straining during lifting heavy weights. Most athletes carefully monitor their health and prevent the development of hemorrhoidal disease beyond the first stage.
- In heavy smokers, as a rule, low blood pressure. Pelvic veins overflow with blood - this provokes the development of hemorrhoids.
Symptoms of the disease: how to understand that this is hemorrhoids?
Itching around the sphincter, a small discharge of blood during bowel movements, frequent constipation ... All these symptoms with a 90% probability indicate that a person has an initial stage of hemorrhoidal disease.
Many patients believe that they are sick with the current fashionable disease - parasitic invasion. People look for parasites in themselves, just not to admit the obvious. In fact, you can quite successfully treat hemorrhoids with folk remedies. The reviews about them are positive, we will consider these methods below.
There are four stages of hemorrhoidal disease:
- the nodes are small (0.5-1.0 cm in diameter), practically do not manifest themselves;
- the first signs of hemorrhoids are determined: blood on toilet paper, itching and pain. At this stage, as a rule, the patient finds hemorrhoidal nodes and experiences shock;
- the nodes no longer adjust themselves after falling out, you have to "put them in place" with your finger;
- the inability to correct the fallen nodes - they are constantly increasing, the patient experiences pain and itching, a strong inflammatory process progresses. At this stage, surgery is no longer necessary.
Reviews about the means of treating hemorrhoids vary: someone praises the compresses, someone candles. Compresses from raw potato juice help almost everyone. Women mostly like recipes for infusions with honey and propolis.
Which therapy method to choose?
Depending on the stage and manifestations of the disease, there are several areas of treatment:
- To relieve bleeding, proctologists recommend putting rectal suppositories with a vasoconstrictor and cooling effect. The most common are Procto-Glivenol, Relief. At home, you can replace this treatment with lotions of freshly squeezed vegetable juices that have astringent properties and can locally increase blood coagulation (for example, raw potato juice, beetroot juice).
- To get rid of unpleasant sensations in a thrombosed site, an analgesic ointment (for example, “Lidocaine”) will give an effective result. With uncomplicated thrombosis, you can use heparin ointment - a cheap and proven remedy. If the pain does not subside - hurry to seek help from a qualified professional.
- With inflammatory processes in a thrombosed ganglion and persistent pain, NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) can help. Such a process usually occurs at the third stage of hemorrhoidal disease - folk remedies here are already powerless.
- The use of ointments "Mafinid" or "Levomekol", lotions of decoctions of herbs (chamomile, tansy, dandelion, calendula), compresses with the addition of propolis and honey effectively relieve skin itching in the anal canal.
Reviews on the treatment of hemorrhoids at home
If the patient showed foresight and diagnosed hemorrhoids himself in the first or second stages, then it is possible to achieve complete remission! The main thing is not to let the disease drift. At the third and fourth stages, you will have to resort to expensive minimally invasive treatment, and even to surgery.
Reviews about the effective treatment of hemorrhoids without visiting a doctor exist. But this only works in the initial stages. If the nodes are no longer set with your finger, drop everything and urgently sign up with a proctologist and gastroenterologist.
The most positive and, one can even say, enthusiastic reviews are about the treatment of hemorrhoidal disease with the help of raw potatoes. For thousands of people this simple vegetable helped for many years to forget about an unpleasant illness.
Potato as a panacea for hemorrhoids
There are two methods of treatment, both of them are effective and relieve symptoms on the second day:
- Candles from raw potatoes. Many patients are perplexed by this method, but nevertheless this is the most effective tool in the treatment of hemorrhoids. The reviews of people who have tested this method on themselves are all positive. It is necessary to cut from a peeled raw potato (the variety is not important) a candle about 2-3 cm long, 1 cm thick. Once a day, before going to bed, insert it into the anus. Every evening, repeat the manipulation of a fresh candle.
- Lotions of raw potato juice. Grate the vegetable on a grater, with the resulting juice, moisten abundantly with a cotton pad. Attach it to the site of pain and itching. After 10-12 minutes, repeat the procedure, change the disc to freshly soaked in potato juice. Within half an hour, the pain and itching almost completely disappear, the nodes are repaired themselves.
Reviews about the treatment of hemorrhoids with potatoes promise to get rid of torment after a day or two. But this does not mean that treatment should be abandoned. Take the course for two weeks, repeating manipulations with potatoes every evening.
Reviews of folk remedies for the treatment of hemorrhoids are full of words about the miraculous effect of raw potato juice on thrombosed nodes. With the regular use of compresses and suppositories, you can achieve complete remission without spending money on expensive medications and without resorting to surgery.
If at the same time you quit bad habits (alcohol and smoking), begin to lead a more mobile lifestyle - hemorrhoidal disease can leave your life once and for all or not make itself felt for many years.
Baths and lotions for the treatment of hemorrhoids
Reviews praise potato juice as much as possible, but if for one reason or another the patient does not have potatoes on hand, you can try other ingredients for the compress:
- Honey and propolis have astringent and anti-inflammatory properties. The bee product can be used in a mixture with heparin ointment or Levomekol. The time for applying such a compress is about 15 minutes, then thoroughly rinse the anus with cold water.
- A spoonful of dry chopped calendula and chamomile is poured with 50 ml of boiling water, let it brew. Add the broth to the half-melted pork fat, mix until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. After cooling, the resulting ointment is applied to the problem place, after 20 minutes, rinse with cool water, blot with a napkin. On the day, such a compress can be performed 2-3 times, it perfectly relieves itching and bleeding.
- Do not take hot baths - this provokes inflammation of the hemorrhoids. Prefer this contrast shower, at the end it is necessary to rinse the area of the anus with cold infusion of chamomile or dandelion.
- Make gruel from fresh rowan berries (you can use a blender), mix it with petroleum jelly or heparin ointment. Rowan berries are an effective treatment for hemorrhoids, the reviews of people tested are mostly positive (provided that there is no allergic reaction to rowan juice).
- Beeswax - has excellent astringent and anti-inflammatory properties. You can use it as an ointment for a compress, or make a wax candle, after holding it in the refrigerator for easy insertion into the anus.
Apply recipes for alternative treatment of hemorrhoids (reviews will help) only after making sure that there is no allergic reaction to any of the components.
Recipes for medicinal herbal decoctions and juices
Infusions and tea drinks from dry ground grass can thin the blood and strengthen the walls of blood vessels and veins. Therefore, decoctions can be an excellent prevention of hemorrhoidal disease. From itching and pain, infusions will not help, since their effect is prolonged.
- Fasting carrot juice - a long-known remedy. It is mainly used to treat hemorrhoids in women. Reviews promise the strengthening of the walls of the veins, the complete elimination of itching and bleeding during bowel movements. The condition is to take 100-150 ml of freshly squeezed carrot juice every morning instead of breakfast.
- Tea from carrot tops with the addition of dry chopped dandelion, calendula. Coffee and black tea should be replaced with such a drink - the veins will thank you.
- Stewed berries of mountain ash (you can use dry, sold at any pharmacy).
- Mix yarrow herb, sage, calendula, peppermint. Each raw material should be taken in one piece. Pour 500-600 ml of boiling water, let it brew. Drink daily inside half a glass, three times a day, before eating. This infusion has an anti-inflammatory effect.
- On an empty stomach, together with the usual coffee and tea, it is better to drink an infusion of calendula with the addition of a teaspoon of acacia honey. This sweet and healthy drink has anti-inflammatory properties and strengthens blood vessels. It is an excellent prevention of hemorrhoids progression.
- Infusions of herbs can not only be taken orally, but also made of them therapeutic enemas once a month. This will heal the entire gastrointestinal tract. And yet, according to reviews - the most effective treatment for hemorrhoids is candles and compresses. Enemas are good only as an auxiliary procedure.
Physical education and hemorrhoids: treat or cripple?
Some types of physical activity are prohibited for patients with hemorrhoidal disease:
- Weightlifting;
- Horseback Riding;
- hours of classes at the ballet machine;
- extreme weight lifting (powerlifting).
Of the recommended physical activity - athletics, stretching, Pilates, body flex, brisk walking.
Symptom Diet
The following products should be present in the diet daily:
- kefir 1.0-1.5% fat;
- fiber-rich fruits: apples, pineapple;
- boiled and raw vegetables: broccoli, radishes, cucumbers, carrots, beets;
- exclude from the diet all fried dishes, pork, lamb, jellied meat, grilled chicken, pizza, fast food, all carbonated drinks;
- any alcohol is prohibited - ethyl alcohol is extremely damaging to the walls of veins.
These simple nutritional rules are an effective treatment for hemorrhoids. Reviews about this diet are only positive: people note the normalization of the gastrointestinal tract, the cessation of constipation, the relief of symptoms of hemorrhoidal disease.
Minimally invasive treatment techniques
They are used in the third or fourth stage. For the price, not cheap, so it’s better not to run the disease. Reviews of home treatment for hemorrhoids in the second stage eloquently prove that a stable remission can be achieved.
If the patient still started the disease, he will have to go to the surgeon and choose one of the following methods:
- ligation of thrombosed nodes with latex rings;
- deserterization - carried out using a modern apparatus under the control of ultrasonic sensors;
- cryodestruction - instant freezing of thrombosed by a node with liquid nitrogen;
- hemorrhoidectomy - excision of the nodes with a scalpel at the last stage of the disease.
What will happen if hemorrhoids are not treated in a timely manner?
A launched focus of inflammation in the anus is very difficult to cure. Even if an operation has been performed, a long recovery period is required. The patient should abandon bad habits, review the diet and change working conditions.
Reviews about the treatment of hemorrhoids in the late stages are scary: this is a very serious disease, with constantly recurring relapses. Therefore, do not put off diagnostics and procedures in a long box.