Hemorrhoid Treatment – The Natural Way
Alternative Treatment vs Traditional Treatment
The 3 established healthcare management goals of hemorrhoid treatment include relieving the symptoms, arresting the worsening of the condition and preventing the recurrence of the condition. In addition to these goals, we would advocate proactive prevention from contracting hemorrhoids.
Established medicine dictates 4 stages of prognosis; immediate admittance to hospital where cancer is highly probable, possible admittance where there is acute discomfort (e.g. thrombosed external hemorrhoids and internal but thrombosed and prolapsed hemorrhoids), outpatient treatment (e.g. grade 1 or 2 hemorrhoids); intensive investigation (e.g. where there is suspicion that the problem may be more than just hemorrhoids).
Many people are comfortable going along this conventional path of hemorrhoid treatment. Well and good, if it helps them. We are not full-blown skeptics of the big pharmaceutical companies and hospitals alternative as they do typically provide good medical soltuions. However, mainline medicines often have side effects that we may not be alerted to even by the best of doctors as they truly believe that the cure is the main immediate goal.
Accordingly, our approach is always to examine alternative treatment together with conventional medicine. It is even more appealing if the alternative method is a natural way. And if it has been tried and tested by fellow sufferers, including those who have already undergone established medical treatment. One highly popular option to hemorrhoid treatment is the H Miracle.
Apart from conventional and alternative treatment, there are many things that you can do for yourself to avoid becoming a hemorrhoid sufferer or if you are already one, to alleviate your discomfort and prevent a worsening of the condition.
Healthy Living as a Lifestyle
Cultivate this uncomplicated style of living – the balanced diet! Clichéd but nevertheless, an unshakeable truth.
A major cause of hemorrhoids is excessive straining due to constant bouts of constipation. Consequently, an important lifestyle goal should then be to ensure regular bowel movements consisting of soft, bulky excrement. This is easily achieved. Just ensure that our diet includes at least 30 gm of insoluble fiber found in fruits and leafy vegetables and by drinking 8 glasses of fluid. Fluids, despite our hopes, exclude those with alcohol and caffeine content!
Where these efforts do not yield quick results, you may also take plant-based fiber supplements. Sold under trade names like Citrucel or WillPowder, methyl cellulose is highly effective. They pass through the intestines undigested and absorbs large quantities of water to produce a bulkier but softer stool. Psyllium (sold under the brand Metamucil) is another effective vegetable-based supplement which acts similarly to produce bulky and smooth faeces.
If you are already suffering from hemorrhoids or is recovering from hemorrhoids after conventional medical procedures, the daily regime of a balanced diet is an imperative step in your hemorrhoid treatment and recovery.
Helping Yourself at Home
For the hemorrhoid sufferer, the next major routine that should become a personal habit is perianal hygiene. Perianal refers to the tissues surrounding the anal region. After passing motion, these are essential steps to note:
• Do not use with perfumes or dyes
• Do not rub the anal region
– clean with the shower or bidet
– gently pat dry with a towel
• Blot dry the anus with
– damp toilet paper
– baby wipes
– moistened towelettes e.g. TUCKS Medicated Pads
– cleansing agents e.g. Balneol Hygienic Cleansing Lotion.
For pain and itch relief in hemorrhoid treatment, try one or all of the following:
• Apply ice (10-minute duration) a few times a day
• Alternate with a warm compress (10-20 minute duration)
• Apply moist heat (using warm towels – tip: use a microwave) a few times a day
• Sit the anal area in warm water (15 minute duration) several times a day
• Take a sitz bath (i.e. warm tub of water with a tablespoon of salt added)
• Apply hemorrhoidal creams or petroleum jelly (e.g. Preparation H)
Other relief methods:
• Lie down in bed – relieves pressure on the inflamed hemorrhoids
• Refrain standing or sitting for prolonged periods
• Refrain lifting heavy objects
• Wear loose cotton undergarments to minimise moisture formation
• Do NOT use the famed doughnut tire cushion – by restricting blood flow, it magnifies swelling!
• Diligently exercise – just brisk walking is fine too
• However busy you are, empty your bowels as soon as the urge occurs.
Self-help is an inevitable part of hemorrhoid treatment. However, this is a VERY IMPORTANT NOTE. Whenever any of the medicinal products mentioned above are used for hemorrhoid treatment, you should seek the advice of the pharmacist at the drugstore where you make your purchase or your personal doctor. This is especially if you have heart disease, high blood pressure, thyroid disease, diabetes, urination difficulties caused by prostate gland enlargement or you are recently taking any prescription drugs.
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