Hemarroids, Hemaroids, Haemorroids

Hemorrhoids also increase in pregnancy due to direct pressure on the rectal veins.

Hemorrhoids treatment

Medical

Drug treatments are to relieve pain (analgesics or anti-inflammatory), regulate the bowel (laxatives) to improve venous flow (veno-tonic drug called), to reduce swelling and calm the local inflammation (suppositories and creams), protect the lining of the anal canal (creams and suppositories).

There is currently only few scientific studies providing a formal assurance of effectiveness of these products.

Instrumentation therapy

Instrumental treatments are made during the consultation. They all aim to strengthen the support of internal hemorrhoids by creating a scar area on top of them. They do not remove the hemorrhoids.

The formation of a scar area is the creation of a minor burn to the wall by a chemical agent (MS), electrical (electrocoagulation), heat (photocoagulation) or by affixing a suction located at the top of the hemorrhoid (rubber tube).

These treatments are generally well tolerated because they are conducted on a non sensitive area of the anus.

The complications seen after these actions represent less than ten percent of patients: it is mostly pain and bleeding.

The effects are not immediately be felt and sometimes you have to repeat one to two times the sessions. The disappearance of signs involving more than two out of three during the first year after treatment. Nevertheless, the benefits tend to diminish with time.

Surgical treatment

Surgery for hemorrhoids is generally used three methods:

* A small intervention (called thrombectomy) can be performed under local anesthesia in consultation if necessary to remove an area external hemorrhoidal pain.

* A classic response (called hemorrhoidectomy type Milligan Morgan) is performed under general anesthesia when will remove the external and internal hemorrhoids.

Removal usually involves three areas wider (three packages), the wounds are left open or partially closed.

The consequences of intervention are usually painful for at least the first 10 days in eight out of ten.

The pain is more intense when the saddle. It often requires the use of powerful painkillers like morphine and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory. The healing is slow. It was completed on average 4 to 6 weeks after surgery.

This act requires on average three to four weeks off work. The hospital stay varies greatly from one center to another (between one and five days) and one patient to another.

Complications are common: they concern a person in five. In the early period, it is temporary difficulties in bowel movements or urination, excessive bleeding that can occur sometimes several days after surgery. In the late period, there is a narrowing of the anus or scar problems (generally mild) to control gas or stool.