Hemorrhoids, Causes, Treatments, And Cures
Article by Renee Pullman
Over 40% of all adults will get hemorrhoids, will this include you? Most hemorrhoids come about after a stress in our life. This could be lifting something too heavy, child birth, constipation, or anything that causes additional pressure in the anal area. The extra pressure causes weak walls of the many blood vessels there to balloon out. Blood fills the balloon and now it is sticking out further for the next pressure to make it worse.
There are a number of things that will help strengthen the walls and help in a hemorrhoid cure. Proper exercise can help a lot. People who are more toned are less likely to exhibit hemorrhoids and tend to heal quicker if they do get them. You might try the buttocks press whereby you contract and release your muscles. This provides stimulation for the area and not only strengthens the muscles but insures that nutrients are distributed to the area for faster relief. The exercise can be done anywhere.
A question you might ask is why are the walls of these vessels weakened, and that is a good question. The reason is diet. A diet that lacks fiber and micro nutrients has not properly supplied the vessels with what they need to stay healthy. Realize to that if these anal blood vessels are compromised that other problems may be developing throughout your body that also need to be taken care of.
There are a variety of treatments to relieve the hemorrhoids but you must address your diet if you want to deal with the underlying cause of the hemorrhoids and have a permanent, long term solution. You can start with some simple diet changes and make yourself healthier in the process. You’ll want to add more fruits and vegetables to your diet. Start with something as simple as an apple, it has lots of fiber and will start helping with symptoms. Don’t stop there, for a complete cure you want to add lots of fruits and vegetables.
Adequate water intake is also important. Without adequate water your stools will tend to be hard further straining the area and exacerbating your hemorrhoidal condition.
While your body is healing itself you can relieve the symptoms with sitz bath and witch hazel. These are well known natural remedies that will shrink hemorrhoids and relieve the pain, itching, and ick. The waters of the sitz bath clean the area better than you can and thereby will also prevent infections that can come in. Likewise with witch hazel, it will soothe and clean the area as it works. Another way to use witch hazel is to pour a little on your toilet paper. It will cool the area and help clean it.
Keeping the area clean is important to avoid anal leakage and to prevent infection which will just make the whole problem worse. Witch hazel applied to toilet paper when you wipe can help a lot with this.
Using these procedures the whole hemorrhoid problem should come under control quickly, after that it becomes easy to stay with it until you have your cure.
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