How to relieve pain with hemorrhoids - a mild solution to an acute problem

If you believe statistics, 8 people out of 10 at least once in their life encountered hemorrhoids.

People from 20 to 50 years old usually suffer from the disease.

Hemorrhoids appear with the same frequency in both sexes. Often, the disease is diagnosed even in children.

Briefly about the problem

The most important and most severe sign of the pathology is pain. This is explained by the fact that in the anorectal zone a large number of nerve endings are localized.

They, in the presence of pathology, send signals through afferent pathways, forming an unpleasant symptom.

Severe pain with hemorrhoids adversely affects the emotional state of the patient, greatly worsens the quality of life and causes a constant sense of discomfort.

With pain, a person may develop a fear of defecation, which causes constipation and thereby aggravates the problem.

In this case, the specialist needs the patient's help to overcome the psychological barrier and prescribe pharmaceuticals with local analgesics.

The nature of pain with hemorrhoids can be different. It depends on the individual characteristics of the patient's body, on its threshold of pain sensitivity, on the stage of the disease and on the neglect of the disease.

With exacerbation of hemorrhoids, the pain has a pulsating character and is enhanced by defecation, touching the hemorrhoids and insignificant stress, for example, when coughing or sneezing.

The patient can not normally sit and move, suffers from insomnia.

What causes hemorrhoidal pains?

The main provoking factors of painful symptoms are:

• development of inflammation;
• trauma to the mucosa of the lower intestine.

In inflammation, the mucosa of the rectum and the skin near the anus become thinner and when the solid feces progress, they are easily damaged. This can cause the appearance of painful and long-healing rectal cracks.

In the absence of treatment, anal fissures pass into a chronic form, turning the life of the patient into a nightmare. Not wanting to experience pain, some try to avoid emptying the intestines, refuse to eat.

But this only exacerbates the problem, as constipation appears, and the stool becomes more dense in consistency. Moving along the inflamed intestine, it even more traumatizes its walls and hemorrhoids.

A strong pain syndrome occurs when the inflamed rectal mucosa swells, and compresses nerve endings and hemorrhoidal cones.

Pain in different stages of the disease

In the initial stages of hemorrhoids the pain is not very strong, and it does not last long. It can be manifested by slight discomfort and sensation of an alien object in the anus during and after defecation. However, as the disease develops, unpleasant sensations intensify.

Often, in the absence of timely treatment, hemorrhoids become chronic. The disease can last for more than one year.

The phases of remission under the influence of provoking factors will be replaced by exacerbations.

To cause an exacerbation can:

• inactivity, sedentary work;
• weight lifting;
• deviations in diet, abuse of spices and spicy dishes;
• bad habits( alcoholism, tobacco smoking);
• disorders in the digestive system, problems with defecation;
• pregnancy and childbirth.

Over the years, the disease progresses, internal hemorrhoidal cones increase, and from time to time become inflamed.

Pain syndrome with internal hemorrhoids, as a rule, appears when the bowel is emptied and feels like burning and rippling in the rectum.

An inflammatory process is attached to it, bleeding may occur during defecation.

At the II stage of hemorrhoids, pain in the sacro-lumbar region, coccyx, sense of heaviness in the intestine can be observed.

Often, cutting pain in the abdomen is characteristic of abnormalities in the work of the digestive tract. The patient suffers from bloating, constipation or vice versa with a loose stool. If you do not treat hemorrhoids at this stage, the pathology progresses, and the symptoms of the disease only increase.

Pain syndrome does not go away at stages 3 and 4 of hemorrhoids. At this stage of the disease, inflamed hemorrhoidal cones already protrude outward. At the third stage, the nodes can still be carefully moved back, in the fourth stage this can not be done any more.

Inflamed cones are very painful, going to the toilet is very painful. Pain syndrome occurs due to the infringement of hemorrhoids, projecting outward: falling out of the rectum, they irritate the anal sphincter, which is compressed by the reflex.

Patients in these two stages complain of pain in the coccyx. In the inter-saline zone there is a strong inflammation: redness of the skin, swelling. Severe bleeding is possible.

Particularly severe pain with thrombosis of hemorrhoidal veins. The formed thrombus presses on the nerve endings and the inflamed walls of the blood vessels.

Pain syndrome can not be removed with analgesics, the patient is hard to sit and walk. In this case, only thrombectomy can help.

How to help yourself with improvised tools?

Even with minor pain, doctors do not recommend to tolerate it, but advise to get rid of it. How to relieve pain with hemorrhoids, if there were no special medications in the house?

Recipes of traditional medicine will help to eliminate pain in the initial stages of hemorrhoids.

The following methods and recipes help to remove the pain:

1. It is recommended to make ice pack to relieve edema and inflammation. To do this, pack ice packs and apply to the affected area every hour for 15 minutes.
2. The application with medicinal plants will help to stop the pain and improve general health: chamomile, marigold, nettle, plantain, pochechuynaya grass. They will remove the inflammation, normalize the outflow of blood, eliminate spasm of anal beetle. To do this, a sterile bandage is moistened in a cool broth of herbs and applied to a sore spot. It is possible to take sedentary cool baths with these plants.
3. To eliminate the pain, compresses can be made with fresh aloe vera juice .To do this, the leaf pulp is rubbed on a fine grater, squeezed out the juice and moistened with a clean bandage, which is then applied to the interannual area for 15 minutes.
4. Instead of aloe, you can take potato juice .Compresses with it do exactly the same, after removing them, the interannual zone needs to be washed with water to remove excess starch.

If the pain is simply intolerable

What if you have severe pain in hemorrhoids? To stop the pain syndrome it is possible with general pharmaceutical preparations( tablets, solutions), or with medicines used topically( suppositories, ointments).

Local dosage forms are much preferable, since analgesics immediately get to damaged and inflamed places. Hence the therapeutic effect of them will be faster than from oral means.

In addition to analgesic action, ointments and suppositories relieve inflammation, promote the healing of damaged tissues.

When using suppositories, they melt in the rectum, while releasing the active substances that are rapidly adsorbed and facilitate the patient's well-being.

The choice of candles is very large, they produce suppositories that are allowed for use during pregnancy, lactation, pediatrics, and to eliminate bleeding from the rectum.

Anesthetic ointments are preferable to use if the pain is observed during defecation. They have a short action, but greatly facilitate this process.

Analgesic Suppositories

As a rule, the composition of analgesic suppositories includes a local anesthetic benzocaine or lidocaine.

The pharmaceutical industry produces the following anesthetic candles:

1. Relief Advance is made from shark liver oil, contains in its composition benzocaine. Suppositories quickly eliminate pain, reduce inflammation and heal rectal fissures. The agent has almost no contraindications. It can be used during pregnancy and lactation, as well as after the surgical removal of hemorrhoids.
2. Anusole has analgesic and antimicrobial action, candles are most effective in exudative hemorrhoids, since they have a drying effect.
3. Procto-gliwenol eliminates not only pain, but also relieves inflammation.
4. Suppositories with blister eliminate spasm of anal pomace, resulting in pain syndrome.

Analgesic Ointments

Anesthetized hemorrhoid pain can be treated with the following ointments:

1. Gepatrombin G relieves itching, reduces pain and inflammation, resolves blood clots. Ointment is contraindicated in bleeding.
2. Flemming Ointment eliminates pain and burning in the rectum, reduces inflammation. It is allowed to be used during pregnancy and lactation, as well as in patients of the older age group.
3. Ointment Bezornil pain relief even with advanced hemorrhoids with complications.

Analgesic tablets

Tablets with hemorrhoids are prescribed not only to eliminate pain. Many of them restore blood circulation, relieve congestion, prevent thrombosis, strengthen the epithelium of the veins.

As a result, the inflammation subsides, the hemorrhoid cones decrease in size and the patient's well-being improves significantly.

For relief of pain during exacerbation of the disease, a physician can prescribe NSAIDs that are taken for a short time. This is Nurofen, Orthofen, Nimesil.

With thrombosis of hemorrhoids due to severe pain, the patient is not able to be treated with medications and then thrombectomy is performed.

With the removal of acute pain in the future, the normalization of the stool is indicated. This is achieved by a special diet, the use of products that eliminate constipation( beets, figs, prunes), medication, for example, Dufalac.

In the presence of anal cracks, which often accompany hemorrhoids and cause pain, wound healing candles are shown, for example with sea buckthorn oil.

Of folk remedies for healing wounds, honey and aloe juice are used, mix them in equal volumes and make compresses on them in diseased areas.

Quickly remove pain syndrome and inflammation possible if the doctor knows exactly the characteristics of the patient and the stage of the disease.

Do not engage in self-medication, only according to the results of the examination, taking into account all the characteristics of the patient and the nature of the exacerbation, the doctor will select the necessary medications that will prove effective in a particular case.