What should I do if I have internal hemorrhoids? What are the dangers of hemorrhoids?

If you suffer from hemorrhoids and feel great psychological pressure, and are afraid to go to the toilet, constipation will worsen in the long run. When defecation becomes difficult, the patient holds his breath, which can speed up the heartbeat and cause rupture of cerebral blood vessels, thereby causing cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral embolism. So what are the dangers of internal hemorrhoids?

1. Anemia

Hemorrhoids can cause the loss of iron in the human body. If the patient has bloody stools for a long time, the iron level in the body will drop significantly, resulting in iron deficiency anemia. Iron deficiency anemia has mild symptoms in the early stages, and the symptoms are not obvious, so it is easy to be ignored. Long-term anemia can cause symptoms such as pale complexion, fatigue, loss of appetite, palpitations, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath and edema after physical activity.

2. Incarceration

Incarceration is a more serious type of hemorrhoidal disease, and many people may not fully understand what this disease is. It means that hemorrhoids prolapse outside the anus. The hemorrhoids outside the anus will be compressed and clamped by the anal muscles, so that venous return will be affected. However, the continuous influx of arterial blood will cause the hemorrhoids to increase in size until the arteries are blocked.

This will cause hemorrhoids to form, which become hard, painful and difficult to move back into the anus. Long-term incarceration of hemorrhoids may cause lesions. Therefore, this symptom is the most obvious and the most harmful to the human body.

3. Necrosis

Hemorrhoids are incarcerated outside the anus. Due to a series of pathological changes, local metabolic products will accumulate together, further aggravating local edema of the anus and aggravating the incarceration of hemorrhoids. This is a vicious cycle. Therefore, if internal hemorrhoids are incarcerated for a long time, necrosis is inevitable. At this time, necrosis is often limited to the mucosal part of the hemorrhoids, but it may also invade other parts of the human body. There have been reports abroad that blood clots in hemorrhoids spread upward, and the necrotic area extended to the rectal wall, resulting in severe sepsis in the pelvic cavity.

4. Infection

After hemorrhoids are incarcerated, there will be varying degrees of infection, and the patient will have symptoms of anal distension. At this time, the infection is mostly confined to the anus. If it is forcefully repositioned, it will easily spread the infection, causing submucosal perianal or ischiorectal abscesses. If the detached bacterial thrombus ascends along the vein, coupled with improper use of antibiotics or no use of any antibacterial drugs, portal vein bacteremia or even sepsis will form, and liver abscesses may also form. Hemorrhoids have many harmful effects, so everyone must pay attention to them.