Hemorrhoids are the bulging and enlarged blood vessels in and near the rectum and anus. They are often described and referred to as the varicose veins of the rectum as well as the anus. With reference to its location; there are two types of this medical condition, the internal and the external type. The internal type can be treated through any of the following procedures:
1.Hemorrhoidectomy
2.Laser coagulation
I.HEMORRHOIDECTOMY
Is a kind of procedure often suggested by medical specialists and doctors to treat hemorrhoids. This treatment is of two types:
1.General hemorrhoidectomy
2.Stapled hemorrhoidectomy
GENERAL HEMORRHOIDECTOMY
This is the most common surgical treatment and procedure being resorted to by those suffering from the hemorrhoidal condition. The process involves doing minute incisions on the tissues that surrounds the hemorrhoid. This is followed by the knotting together of such tissues to prevent future bleeding from occurring in the area. As a final process to the procedure, removal of the tissues is made with the use of anesthesia either local or generalized. This surgical procedure lasts duration of up to two (2) hours with the patient being able to go home on the same day after the surgery was done. While the patient can go home after the surgery, the area treated with the surgical treatment is kept protected with a clean and medicated bandage-gauze to prevent an infection from happening on the treated area.
STAPLED HEMORRHOIDECTOMY
Also known as stapling hemorrhoidectomy is the second type of surgical type to treat the medical condition. In this procedure, surgery is done to block the blood going to the hemorrhoidal tissue so that it will eventually wither and fall off. General anesthesia is administered to patients undergoing this procedure. This surgical procedure lasts duration of up to thirty (30) minutes. As compared to the general hemorrhoidectomy treatment, this treatment is less painful, but there was a clinical research made that this treatment has a higher risk of reappearing compared to the first type of surgical treatment.
II.LASER COAGULATION
In this treatment 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.
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