Modern medicine knows many diseases of different parts of the human intestine. For the rectum, the most common ailment is hemorrhoids. The first stage of this disease is given more attention, because it is against the background of its course that you can quickly get rid of the named problem. The symptoms of this disease in women and men usually cause a lot of trouble, interfering with an active and he althy life.
The essence of the disease
Hemorrhoids are often said to be the same varicose veins, but only occurring in the intestines. But from a medical point of view, things are a bit more complicated.
Nodes tend to become inflamed, falling out of the anal canal. The hemorrhoid is a special cavernous formation. There are only three of them in the rectum andexactly the same - outside. In the presence of normal blood flow and in the absence of adverse factors, the nodes, as a rule, are small in size, and a person does not feel their presence in any way.
And what happens if the blood circulation in the rectum is disturbed?
Then there is congestion in the blood vessels. Hemorrhoids can literally swell from excess blood. Without proper therapy, its stagnation can increase, bleeding develops along with inflammatory processes, infectious lesions, and so on.
Manifestations of hemorrhoidal disease can be very unpleasant, and at the same time noticeably painful. True, at the first stage of hemorrhoids, it will rather cause inconvenience, on which people try not to pay attention. But this is in vain, since it is at this time that you can simply prevent hemorrhoids from developing to any serious form and prevent complications.
How does hemorrhoids of the first stage appear in men and women? You can see a photo of the rectum with hemorrhoids in the article.
Symptomatics and signs of pathology
The sensations that will be discussed later in our article are probably familiar to about eight out of ten patients. But the manifestations listed below do not mean at all that a person can inevitably develop hemorrhoidal disease of the rectum. True, it is highly recommended to listen to yourself and, at a minimum, take preventive measures.
In general, the symptoms of hemorrhoids of the first stage look like this:
- A person has a feeling of discomfort in the anus, especially after a bowel movement.
- There is a feeling of a full bowel, even if a bowel movement has just taken place.
- Typical and the appearance of burning, itching, tingling pain in the anal area, which increase with bowel movements.
- In some cases, you can observe drops of blood or the appearance of whole blood smears on stool or on toilet paper.
Not everyone knows what hemorrhoids of the first stage look like.
But the last symptom indicates that congestion in the hemorrhoid has already led to thinning of the mucous membrane. The walls of blood vessels can become thinner and react with bleeding to any irritation, for example, with tension during bowel movements, the passage of hard feces, excessively active peristalsis, and so on.
It is worth noting that the first stage of hemorrhoids is the most insidious. It can occur without any symptoms at all. But with any suspicion of the development of the disease, you need to seek help from a doctor.
Hemorrhoids of the first stage can provoke some complications.
Complications in the first stage of the disease
If the first stage of hemorrhoids in men and women was diagnosed, then the treatment must be prescribed by a proctologist. Due to their own ignorance, due to shyness or simply due to inattention to their he alth, patients often skip this initial stage. And thenpathology begins to progress rapidly.
Crowded chronically stagnant hemorrhoids are no longer held in place. Their displacement begins, then periodic prolapse from the rectum.
At first it happens against the background of physical effort, and later absolutely at any moment. For some time, the prolapsed knot can be drawn into the rectum on its own, then its manual reduction is already required, but, as a result, this becomes impossible.
In all of the above situations, it is impossible to ignore the manifestations of hemorrhoids. Sometimes it is even very dangerous due to anemia that occurs after acute bleeding or various inflammations, as well as because of the threat of infection. It is best not to postpone a visit to the proctologist in any case, even if this is the first stage of hemorrhoids in women and men.
Causes that provoke the development of the disease
The main cause of the first stage of hemorrhoids in men and women in medicine is hereditary predisposition. Numerous unfavorable factors become directly a trigger:
- Passion for an unbalanced diet that is poor in fiber.
- The appearance of chronic constipation, due to which defecation can only be achieved after significant attempts.
- Occurrence of frequent diarrhea along with dyspepsia, irritating mucous membranes.
- Little or excessive activity, which is dictated by the profession or habit.
- Availabilitypregnancy, which is accompanied by circulatory disorders, difficult childbirth, requiring serious attempts.
- Excessive love for long yet hot baths.
- The patient is overweight (in this case, there is a load on the blood vessels).
- A person's addiction to tobacco, and in addition to alcohol.
- The occurrence of diseases of the respiratory system that cause a strong and prolonged cough.
- Occurrence of anal and rectal neoplasms.
Diagnosis
Hemorrhoids at an early stage are diagnosed with the help of a digital examination. In addition, to clarify the diagnosis, a rectal mirror is used (it is called an anoscope), with the help of which the anal canal is examined along with the membrane of the rectum to a depth of up to fifteen centimeters. The patient is also prescribed stool tests for the content of occult blood in the biomaterial.
With the first stage of hemorrhoids, as a rule, complex therapy, which includes drug treatment in combination with the use of folk remedies, helps to cope. In some situations, sclerotherapy helps to get rid of hemorrhoids.
Traditional Therapy
How to cure hemorrhoids in the first stage? It is important, first of all, to find out the causes of the disease, and, in addition, to conduct a thorough diagnosis. The diagnosis must be made by the attending physician. Only specialists can correctly describe the scheme of therapy and prevention.
How long will it take to he althis ailment depends largely on the severity of the pathology, and in addition, on the accompanying symptoms and the human body itself. Most often, the symptoms disappear already on the fourth day after the use of medications.
Treatment of hemorrhoids at the initial stage always involves a whole therapeutic package of measures. There are currently a lot of different drugs and other means, ranging from candles to ointments, creams, tablets, and so on. Plus, there are many recipes borrowed from traditional medicine, but even in this case, a preliminary medical consultation is necessary.
And you also need to adjust your diet and lifestyle. It is imperative to balance the diet, dropping excess weight. It will not prevent a patient suffering from hemorrhoids from acquiring a couple of good habits. Everyone who successfully copes with such recommendations practically does not know the recurrence of this disease. At the very least, this will prevent the next stage.
Medicated treatment
In the event that a person develops an inflammatory process, hemorrhoids can enter an acute phase. In this situation, it will be almost impossible to do without anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs. Among them, it is worth mentioning "Lornosikam" along with "Ketoprofen" and "Ketorolac". According to the situation, the doctor may prescribe narcotic analgesics or the use of novocaine blockade.
Which candles for hemorrhoids in the first stage will help?
The fight against blood stasis is carried out with the help of general tonic and venotonic agents, for example, created on the basis of micronized diosmin or rutoside. Among the drugs for hemorrhoids, there are many combined drugs that act on several symptoms of the disease at once. For example, they relieve pain, and, in addition, relieve inflammation.
Folk remedies
Treatment with their help in most cases gives a positive effect in the first stage of hemorrhoids. In the presence of an internal form of the disease, the use of rectal suppositories from young potatoes helps very well, and for the external type, baths with medicinal herbs are used. Treatment of hemorrhoids of the initial stage at home will require the normalization of the digestive system along with physiotherapy exercises and taking venotonic drugs.
What should be done if all else fails? Often in this case, patients require surgery. Removal of hemorrhoids is currently performed in just a few hours. The patient is not even required to go to the hospital.
Prevention: how to prevent inflammation
Prevention of this disease is quite simple! It is quite simple to conduct it:
- To do this, you just need to enrich your diet with vegetables, and, in addition, fruits, dairy products and herbs. Do not get carried away with spicy, spicy, fatty and especially fried foods.
- Needs to be minimized or even better stop drinkingalcohol, and, in addition, stop smoking.
- Be sure to drink plenty of fluids while staying hydrated.
- If you have a sedentary job, you need to regularly do a short warm-up to stimulate blood flow, and when you exercise, you need to rest in time.
- Immediately after each bowel movement, it is advisable to wash the anal area with cool water.
It is important to note that there are serious bowel diseases that are similar in their manifestation in men and women to the first stage of hemorrhoids (the photo of the disease is not included in the article for aesthetic reasons).
Reviews
Unfortunately, hemorrhoids are now a very common disease, as evidenced by the many reviews left by both men and women.
Men write that when the first stage of this disease occurs, on the advice of doctors, they are mainly helped by medications, for example, Ketoprofen or Ketorolac.
Women, in turn, judging by their reviews of hemorrhoids of the first stage, prefer to turn more to traditional methods of therapy, for example, to the use of therapeutic baths. But be that as it may, it is worth noting that any treatment option must be discussed with a specialist, because self-medication can harm.
