One of the finest ways to relieve the swelling, hurting or bleeding hemorrhoids is to make changes in your diet. There are variety of foods and drinks that you can munch on to reduce the distress and avoid the bad ones that will only worsen your condition.
Choosing healthy foods is a leap in achieving wellness for your stomach and whole body. You have to add more beneficial ones and delete the harmful ones.
•Fiber rich foods. Add more roughage in your meal like whole grains (oats, bran, rye, rice), green leafy vegetables (cabbage, lettuce), carrots, green beans, eggplant, Brussels sprouts, fruits (apple, berries, oranges, pears, prunes, apricots) and legumes (soy beans, chick peas, kidney beans, lima beans). All of these compose of fiber that will aid in forming soft and easy to eliminate stools. It doesn’t only make our stools bulky but it speeds up the elimination of waste products in the digestion. The recommended diet per day is 20-30 grams; you can also utilize the fiber supplements (methylcellulose or psyllium). Increase your intake gradually, expect gas or stomach cramps if eaten too much but as the system and normal flora of the tummy adjust; the gas will eventually fade out.
•Drink one glass daily of juices from blueberries, cherries and blackberries combined with apple juice. These have valuable contents that aid in lessening the pain and bulging, it also helps to strengthen anal veins.
•For bleeding and inflamed hemorrhoids, you can try eating yam, tamarind and rice and pair it with drinks like hot milk with lemon juice or chamomile tea. These have relaxing effects on the swelled veins, itchiness and inhibit bleeding. If these drinks are not available, just increase your water consumption to 8 glasses daily to avoid losing of moisture in the digestion. To compensate for the bleeding and to boost your iron, eat foods rich in Iron found in raisins, chicken liver, prunes, baked potatoes, cashews, broccoli, apricots, tuna, pistachios and kelp.
•Herbs like garlic, onion and ginger are good in breaking down fibrin, a substance responsible for repairing broken arteries and veins in the body. Herbs help in the proper distribution of fibrin that aids in healing hemorrhoids.
•Avoid large amount of alcohol, wine, sodas, beer, and coffee as these promote sensitivity in the anal veins especially if it’s inflamed. Also avoid refined foods like high in fat and protein, white flour products, sugary sweets and low in complex carbohydrates, all of these lack fiber and are considered culprit foods.
Modification of your food preferences is one of the essential moves that will heal your hemorrhoids. Just choose wisely from the variety of healthy foods to keep your condition in good state.
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