Health Network News

Piles, or hemorrhoids, are when veins get swollen in the tissue around one’s anus, causing sometimes painful bumps in the skin. This condition can be very embarrassing to the people who suffer from it. This is why an effective–and subtle–piles cure is necessary.

To cure it, one must go to the source. If you can stop yourself from aggravating your piles, you then have a good chance that you can cure them. Piles begin if you have difficult bowel movements. It puts a lot of strain on the blood vessels there.

Most piles are caused from straining during bowel movements. This is just one of the reasons why you should eat plenty of fiber and drink a lot of water. It will also help if you lose some weight if you are currently obese. The bigger you are, the more difficult any exertion will be for your body. You also must think of it from a correlation point of view: you may be large because you eat improperly. Bad food with little fiber causes large, infrequent bowel movements AND it can make you over weight, which strains your system more.

Go directly to your doctor before you do anything else. The doctor can check for other problems that piles may just be hiding. Rectal cancer is the worst of these. The doctor may also have some good advice for home treatments. One of these is to soak piles in warm water, via a hot bath. It will ease and loosen up the muscles around the area and give you relief. A similar treatment on the other end of the spectrum is to do cold compresses. This will also give you relief.

You will probably have to suck up any embarrassment and just buy some recommended creams. You will not need anything heavy, and pain killers for this condition will probably just be simple aspirin. Make sure the area is cleaned well, since infections can turn really ugly in terms of pain. Suppositories are great since they can get medication to the area quickly.

For more intensive, quick, and permanent removal, there are always surgical options. A very common treatment is something called rubber band ligation. It involves the doctor putting something akin to a rubber band around the piles which will cut off the blood supply. They will eventually ‘die’ and fall off.

Electrical currents can be applied to close up the vein. Injections can harden up the piles and make them die out. Extreme cold can freeze them off in an in-office procedure. The most intensive procedure is an actual surgery where they are completely cut off, but this is reputed to be very damaging to the area.

Natural methods tend to be favorites of doctors and patients alike. Just eating better or eating things that could dry up the vein are good options. Just be careful you are not scammed into buying ’supplements’, which many fake drug companies sell for just about any medical condition. Trust only what your doctor recommends.