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Piles (Hemorrhoids): symptoms and home remedies

Last updated on : 03 Oct, 2024

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What are Piles?

The piles, also called haemorrhoids, are caused by swollen blood vessels in or around your anus (the opening of your bottom). It’s totally normal to have blood vessels in your anus because they help you stay watery. But piles can happen if these blood vessels get enlarged and you feel sick.

Your anus is lined with soft, blood vessel-filled tissue. The anal cushions help close your anus. These are normal, but they can sometimes turn into piles.

Most piles are small, round, dirty-looking lumps. You might be able to feel them on your anus or hanging from your anal canal. Your anal canal is the short, muscular tube with blood vessels that connects your rectum (back passage) to your anus. So, if you are in pain or problem you may take home remedies or consult the doctor and have treatment.

Piles symptoms

The pile symptoms are not as real so as a couple of days. For the most part, resolve all as its own. Here are a part of the pile’s symptoms: –

  • A bump might be felt around the butt. It could be hard to feel and might have blood that has thinning out in it.
  • Thrombosed outer haemorrhoids are blood-filled piles that are on the outside of the body.
  • If you have piles, you might think your stomach is still full after you pass a stool.
  • If you pass a solid stool, In which bright red blood can be seen. That is why the butt is so itchy, red, and difficult to touch
  • There is a lot of pain when you have to pass a stool.

Piles can turn into a big problem. It might include things like:

  1. Excessive butt-centric dying can prompt weakness.
  2. Infection
  3. Faecal incontinence
  4. Strangulated haemorrhoid, in which the haemorrhoid’s blood supply is cut off. bringing about outcomes. For example, disease or blood coagulation.

Causes of piles

Haemorrhoids don’t have a clear cause, but they are linked to high pressure in the blood vessels in and around your anus. Because of this pressure, the blood vessels in your back passage can get swollen and red.

Many cases are thought to be caused by too much straining on the movement because of long-term constipation. This is often caused by not getting enough fibre in a person’s diet. Chronic (long-term) diarrhoea can also make you more likely to get haemorrhoids.

Other causes of piles are there such as:

  • Chronic constipation
  • Chronic diarrhoea
  • Sitting still for a long time
  • Pregnancy
  • Heavy weight lifting
  • Alcohol as well as some types of foods

Four distinct grades (Types) of piles are included:

Four distinct grades of Hemorrhoids
  • Grade I: There are minor irritations, inside the rear-end lining. That can’t be seen.
  • Grade II: Loads are bigger than the grade I pile, yet they stay inside the rear-end. They might be pushed out during stool passing; but, they will return all alone. 
  • Grade III: These show up external the rear-end and are otherwise called prolapsed haemorrhoids.  They might feel like they’re swinging from the rectum, yet they’re easy to re-embed. 
  • Grade IV: These can’t be returned and should be given out. They are huge and don’t enter the butt.

Piles treatment:

1) Medicines

Most of the time, piles go away on their own and don’t need to be fixed. A few treatments, but, can lessen the pain and also reduce the tingling caused by piles in many people.

2) Changes in lifestyle

Some people think a high-fibre diet could help them avoid and treat the illness. First, consult a doctor he/she will tell you to make some changes in your daily life Then, you can start taking care of your piles.

3) Diet for piles

Stressed defecation can cause piles to form, and this can cause them. Clogging is what makes people very stressed out. A change to your diet can help keep your stools soft and normal. This can be done by eating more fibre-rich foods, like foods grown in the soil, or by focusing on wheat-based breakfast oats.

4) Over the counter medicine for haemorrhoids

OTC drugs are those that can be bought at the store or on the internet. Among the medications that can help with redness and swelling around the butt are painkillers, balms, creams, and cushions.

Even though over-the-counter medicines can’t help with piles, they can help with the side effects that come with them. For this reason, they should not be used for more than 7 days at a time. They can irritate the area and cause the skin to fade. If a doctor recommends it then only you can have it.

5) Corticosteroids

These can help with pain and inflammation. If someone who has a lot of food gets a blockage, the doctor might give them digestive medicine. These can make it easier to pass dung and lessen the stress on the lower colon. One in ten people who have piles will need to consult a doctor.

6) Banding

They fold a flexible band around the base of the pile, cutting off its blood supply. In about a week or so, the haemorrhoids will be out of the way. This treatment is good for all haemorrhoids that don’t grade IV, so it’s good for everyone.

7) Sclerotherapy

It involves injecting medicine into the haemorrhoids to make them shrink. For a long time, the haemorrhoids shrink. If you have haemorrhoids in grades II and III, this is a good way to band them.

8) Infrared coagulation is a pile’s treatment

Infrared coagulation, also known as infrared laser coagulation, is a way to get rid of haemorrhoid tissue with a device. This method is used to treat haemorrhoids in grades I and II.

Piles home remedy 

1. Witch hazel (flowering plant) can use as a piles home remedy:-

There are two common signs of haemorrhoids: shivering and pain. Witch hazel can help with both. Witch hazel can be bought in a liquid form and used to treat haemorrhoids. The witch hazel can be found in things like wipes to stop you from shivering and cleaning agents, too. 

2. Aloe vera as a piles home remedy:- 

Aloe vera gel has been used for the most part to treat haemorrhoids and a wide range of skin problems. It’s supposed to be calming, which could help lessen the symptoms of a cold or flu.

Aloe vera gel can be found in a lot of different things, but you should only use pure aloe vera gel on haemorrhoids if you want to get rid of them. Pure aloe vera gel can also be found inside the leaves of an aloe plant and you can use it to treat it.

Read Also: Aloe vera juice recipe and its health benefits

3. Steaming shower with Epsom salt (sendha namak):-

Steaming showers with Epsom salt can help to relieve the pain caused by haemorrhoids. You can use a sitz shower, which is a small plastic tub that fits over a toilet seat. You can also clean up in your tub. Every time you poop, you should stay awake for about 20 minutes. Adding Epsom salts to the shower can help even more by making the pain less intense.

4. Soothing wipes as a piles home remedy:-

Using toilet paper can irritate haemorrhoids so don’t use it after your bowel movement. Wet wipes can help you stay clean without causing irritation. Witch hazel or aloe vera can be found in some wet wipes that can be also used to help calm down and relieve haemorrhoids.

5. Cold packs as a piles home remedy:-

At the same time, put ice packs or cold packs on the backside to slow down the growth for about 15 minutes. For huge, unbearable haemorrhoids, this can be a very real option. Wrap ice in a texture or paper towel all the time, but don’t put anything frozen on your skin.

6. Stool conditioners as a piles home remedy:- 

Diabetics and people who have digestive and kidney problems. They can use stool conditioners or fibre supplements, like psyllium, to help lessen the pain, make the stool more gentle, and make it easier to go. It’s important to know that a lot of these stool-conditioning products come in a variety of forms that you take orally once or several times a day.

If all these home remedies do not work on your pile’s symptoms. As soon as possible consult the doctor and take the treatment.

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