It is very hard to live a normal life if you are suffering from hemorrhoids. If you have a hemorrhoid, visit your doctor as soon as possible. Do not simply ignore your hemorrhoid and hope that it will go away on its own. If your hemorrhoid is treated early, you have a higher chance of a full recovery. The treatment for your hemorrhoid depends on what type of hemorrhoid you have. Visit your doctor to find out what type of hemorrhoid you have and what treatment you need for it. In this article, we will discuss some of the treatment options that doctors recommend to hemorrhoid sufferers.
Physicians may opt you to have treatments like:
•Injection-If you are only suffering from a mild hemorrhoid, a medical professional may try to treat your hemorrhoid by injecting medicine into the mucous membranes near your hemorrhoids. Injecting medicine into the mucous membranes helps shrink your hemorrhoid and the blood vessels inside it. This reduces the pain from the hemorrhoid and helps it heal faster.
•Transanal Hemorrhoidal Dearterialisation is a surgery method which involves internal stitches beneath your artery. The stitches stop blood from flowing to your hemorrhoid to help reduce the pain and speed up the healing of the hemorrhoid. Transanal Hemorrhoidal Dearterialisation is done using a specialized device such as a Doppler ultrasound flowmeter and a proctoscope.
•Bipolar electrotherapy or bipolar coagulation is a treatment option for someone who is suffering from an internal hemorrhoid. It is a non-surgical method and involves using a directed coagulation effect on the mucous membrane near your hemorrhoid to help it heal.
•Photocoagulation or Infrared coagulation uses infrared to treat your hemorrhoids. This method is usually used on an internal hemorrhoid that is bleeding too much. This treatment method lasts for about 10 minutes and ensures a speedy and painless recovery. This is one of the most fastest and painless way to treat a bleeding internal hemorrhoid.
•Bipolar diathermy uses heat coagulation to destroy the tissue round the affected area. This will cause the swelling and forming of scar tissue; pain and bleeding is expected. It is similar to infrared photocoagulation.
•The Hemorrhoidolysis treatment method uses therapeutic galvanic waves that are aimed directly to your hemorrhoid. The therapeutic galvanic waves produce a chemical reaction within your hemorrhoid and eventually shrink and dissolve the hemorrhoidal tissue. This treatment method is more effective when used on an internal hemorrhoid.
•Injection sclerotherapy is the injection of sclerosing solutions (phenol or quinine urea) into the hemorrhoid’s base to harden it and so that inflammation and scarring will follow, giving more support to the blood vessels of the rectal wall. This is best for small bleeding veins; it’s painful but will lessen a day after. Injection sclerotherapy is a procedure recommended for those with painful internal hemorrhoids.
•In Rubber-band ligation procedure, the protruding vein is encircled with a small rubber band, after several days, necrosis occurs and it falls off, where scarring takes place. Some patients claimed it’s painful than sclerotherapy, may even lead to bleeding and culprit for infection.
•Cryotherapy includes freezing the hemorrhoids to cause necrosis, swelling and scarring. It’s painless but the healing is time consuming and it has a very foul smelling discharge.
•Hemorrhoidectomy is a surgical incision to remove all the dilated tissue with a clamp and cautery, a small tube is inserted for the passage of the blood and discharges.
•Laser coagulation is a treatment in which a physician uses a minute precise light (laser) to vaporize the hemorrhoidal tissue. The laser is utilized to create a scar to cut off the supply of blood to the hemorrhoidal tissue to eventually shrink and eradicate the tissue. This scarred tissue is used in preventing the development of future hemorrhoids by means of strengthening the walls of the anus and to prevent veins in the rectum from bulging and swelling.
•Cauterization is primarily done on patients with swollen external blood vessels since such piles manifest on the outer anal surface. It is the subjecting of a body tissue – in this case, the swollen hemorrhoids – to intended irritation in order to remove it from the body. Modern cauterization procedures include electrocautery (using a metal probe that is heated using electrical current) and chemical cautery (uses caustic agents such as silver nitrate, trichloroacetic acid, and canthanidrin), as well as the use of laser, infrared rays, and cryogenic agents like liquid nitrogen.
These are just some of the treatment methods available for treating a hemorrhoid. There are other treatment methods available. Before you try the surgeries, you can use other options like the natural remedies, changing your diet and lifestyle. If after everything, the discomfort increases and the swelling persists, follow the professional’s advice to end the torment. Consult your doctor to find out which treatment will work best for you.
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