Causes of hemorrhoids

The appearance of hemorrhoids brings serious harm to the patient's body. The common symptom of hemorrhoids is the appearance of blood in the stool, so we must do a good job in preventing hemorrhoids. We should learn more about hemorrhoids in our daily life. We can understand the symptoms of hemorrhoids and the causes of hemorrhoids. This will help us prevent and treat hemorrhoids.

Hemorrhoids are related to many factors. Bad bowel habits and dietary factors may lead to hemorrhoids. In addition, abnormal bowel movements and physiological desires may also be factors that cause hemorrhoids.

1. Bad bowel habits: squatting to read books or newspapers while going to the toilet, which causes prolonged squatting and bowel movement time, easily causing blood stasis in the anus and cecum and leading to disease. Smoking while going to the toilet can buffer the brain's defecation reflex and can easily cause constipation. Some people exert too much force during defecation, regardless of whether the feeling of defecation is strong or not, and blindly and continuously exert force. This will only increase unnecessary burden and cause local congestion on the appendix, anus and pelvic floor muscles, leading to the occurrence and spread of diseases.

2. Abnormal stool: Diarrhea and constipation are both important causes of hemorrhoids. Constipation is the biggest cause of trouble. Long-term retention of toxic substances in the appendix can not only cause appendicitis, but also cause stool accumulation and affect blood circulation. Trying to forcefully expel dry feces will inevitably cause the anus to be under greater pressure, leading to a series of pathological changes such as bruising, swelling, and fissures. Diarrhea is often a medical manifestation of colon disease. Diarrhea can also increase the chance of local infection in the anus, leading to diseases such as anal sinusitis, inflammatory external hemorrhoids, and perianal abscesses.

3. Chronic diseases: such as long-term malnutrition and weak constitution, which lead to relaxation and weakness of the anal sphincter. Long-term suffering from chronic bronchitis and emphysema, with cough and asthma causing increased abdominal pressure and pelvic congestion. Chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, diarrhea, colitis, etc. are all causes of anorectal diseases. Occupational reasons: standing or sitting for long periods of time. Due to the upright or sitting posture, the anus and cecum are located at the lower part of the human body, and the hemorrhoidal vein return is not smooth.

4. Dietary reasons: In daily life, it is natural that eating patterns or food varieties may change. For example, the fineness of food quality, changes in vegetable types and increases or decreases in quantity, the content of protein, fat, starch, cellulose, etc., and water intake can all directly affect the composition of feces and lead to anal and cecal diseases. People who drink alcohol for a long time or like to eat spicy food, because alcohol and spicy food can irritate the digestive tract mucosa, causing vasodilation, colon dysfunction, and a significantly increased incidence of anorectal diseases.

5. Physiological reasons: The colon and cecum are the main organs for transporting food residues and storing feces. After food is decomposed and absorbed by the body, the residues often contain a large amount of harmful substances. If they remain in the colon and cecum for a long time, they can cause tumors.

6. Anatomical reasons: The anal venous system and the vena cava system are located at the lower end of the cecum, with many venous plexuses and anastomotic branches. The venous walls are weak, with reduced resistance to pressure. The submucosal tissue of the cecum is loose, which is conducive to venous enlargement, varicose deformation, and easy formation of hemorrhoids.

7. Causes of abnormal embryonic development: The anus and cecum are formed by the fusion of the endoderm and ectoderm during the embryonic development of the human body. If the development process is abnormal, many congenital anorectal diseases may occur in the anus and cecum, such as congenital imperforate anus, congenital ceco-vaginal fistula, congenital megacolon, etc.

8. Genetic causes: Due to genetic gene defects, hereditary anorectal diseases such as multiple colon polyps and PJ syndrome may occur.

TCM explains the causes of hemorrhoids

1. Improper diet: It is easy to cause dampness and heat accumulation, which will flow into the anus, causing congestion and burning pain in the anus and triggering hemorrhoids.

2. Overwork: Sitting for a long time will cause blood circulation to become blocked, while walking for a long time will cause qi and blood to become blocked. Stagnant blood flows into the anus and causes hemorrhoids.

3. Constipation: Holding back bowel movements for a long time and accumulating heat in the large intestine is one of the causes of hemorrhoids.

Dietary habits can also cause hemorrhoids

The Dongyi Baojian says: "Overeating will cause the spleen to be unable to adjust, and food will accumulate in the large intestine. Once the spleen is deficient, the lung metal will not be nourished, and the liver wood will become violently frightened. Wind evil will take advantage of the weakness and flow down. In mild cases, it will cause intestinal wind and bleeding, and in severe cases, it will cause hemorrhoids and fistulas."

The Suwen Qi Tong Tian Lun says: "When the fat and the swell are formed, a big ding will grow on the foot."

"Taiping Shenghui Fang" said: "Hemorrhoids caused by alcohol are highly toxic. The alcohol poison soaks into the internal organs, causing the blood vessels to overflow, the accumulated heat to fail to dissipate, and it attacks the large intestine, thus causing bleeding." From this we can see that the main causes of illness due to improper diet include two aspects: partiality and abnormal hunger and satiety.

Above we introduced what hemorrhoids are. We know that the appearance of hemorrhoids brings great pain to patients, so we must do a good job in the prevention and treatment of hemorrhoids. The formation of hemorrhoids is related to many aspects. As long as we understand the cause of hemorrhoids, we can effectively prevent hemorrhoids. The above article introduces in detail the causes of hemorrhoid formation.