When pain and bleeding occur, especially during evacuation, with blood-stained stools or staining toilet paper with blood, this may indicate the presence of hemorrhoids.
Symptoms that may indicate hemorrhoids include:
- When the hemorrhoid is not externalized by the anus.
- Its main symptom is acute pain in the area and the presence of blood in the stool.
- Cup or toilet paper after evacuation.
Hemorrhoids can be visible outside the anus or inside and exit through the rectum when forced to defecate, with varying degrees of hemorrhoids, grade 1 is inside the anus, grade 2 leaves the anus during evacuation, and grades 3 and 4 are visible outside the anus. .
A person may have more than one hemorrhoid and can appear at any stage of life, although they are more common in adults and the elderly, especially in people suffering from trapped intestines and who have to go to great lengths to evacuate, and overweight people.
Hemorrhoids are also common during pregnancy, exhibiting the same symptoms and treatment can also be done in the same way.
Hemorrhoids can be treated with a hemorrhoid ointment, seat baths, stool softening, and, in more severe cases, your doctor may even recommend surgery. See some examples of ointments for hemorrhoids.
Sitting in a basin filled with warm water and adding some chamomile tea, cypress or Indian chestnut is a good way to relieve the pain and discomfort caused by hemorrhoids.
See how to prepare home remedies like these in the video below
In addition, it is important not to eat spicy or gaseous foods, and increase the consumption of fruits and whole foods, in addition to drinking plenty of water, to help soften the stool, so that once eliminated, they do not cause pain. This is what you must do to stop the hemorrhoids.
It is advisable to see your doctor when looking at the symptoms mentioned above as an examination of the area quickly determines the existence of the hemorrhoid and so the doctor may indicate the most appropriate form of treatment.
Although your family doctor can identify hemorrhoids, treatment and surgery are usually performed by the proctologist.