Haemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids are tissue pads between the rectum and anus that can be enlarged during bowel movements and partially pushed out behind the anus.

Although many people have hemorrhoids, there are often no or hardly any symptoms. But sometimes it comes to anus itching after the bowel movement. The most common symptom is light red blood, on the stool, on the toilet paper or in the toilet bowl. Further symptoms are burning, oozing, mucous excretion, stool smearing and from the 3rd stage on pain. Complicating can be inflammation, eczema or ulcer formation.

Symptoms for the appearance of external haemorrhoids are a typically sudden, severe pain, usually after bowel movement, and often painful, bluish knots on the outer edge of the anal canal, which can be palpated.

Depending on how severe the haemorrhoidal disease is, the disease is divided into three stages with different symptoms.

'Stages of hemorrhoids * Stage 1: Slight protrusion into the anal canal not visible from the outside. At this stage, the nodes are small and not visible from the outside. They can disappear on their own without any special treatment and often cause no discomfort at all * Stage 2: Visible knots while pressing, but which disappear on their own: In the second stage, the knots are already bigger. They can no longer recede spontaneously without appropriate therapy. Sometimes they are partially pressed against the anal opening during bowel movements and then retract into the anal canal on their own. * Stage 3: The nodules fall in front of the anal opening during bowel evacuation or spontaneously and do not retract into the anal canal on their own. At this stage, the nodules fall either during defecation or spontaneously completely in front of the anal opening and no longer retreat into the anal canal by themselves. This can lead to so-called anal prolapse, in which not only the hemorrhoidal knots but also the mucous membrane of the anal canal protrude up to two centimetres from the anus.

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