Symptoms of internal hemorrhoids

my country is a country with a high incidence of hemorrhoids. There is even a saying that nine out of ten people have hemorrhoids, which shows how high the incidence of hemorrhoids is. Hemorrhoids are clinically divided into three types, namely internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids and mixed hemorrhoids. The incidence of internal hemorrhoids accounts for nearly 40%. Therefore, in order to better understand your own disease, it is very important to understand the symptoms of internal hemorrhoids in detail. Here we will analyze it for you.

Internal hemorrhoids usually occur on the left and right sides of the anus. Its typical symptom is blood in the stool. Once the disease occurs, the patient will feel very painful in the anus. Many patients basically cannot sit and can only sleep lying down. The specific symptoms of internal hemorrhoids are as follows:

When internal hemorrhoids first occur, the symptoms are not obvious and they are only discovered during physical diagnosis. However, as the hemorrhoids grow larger, the symptoms will gradually become more severe. Common symptoms of internal hemorrhoids are:

1. Blood in stool: Bleeding during or after defecation, bright red in color, sometimes with a small amount of blood on the surface of the stool, or staining toilet paper red, sometimes dripping or spurting blood. Because feces abrades the mucosa, or because of excessive force during defecation, the pressure in the blood vessels increases, causing varicose veins to rupture, resulting in spurt-like bleeding during defecation. Long-term and repeated bleeding, or multiple heavy bleeding, can also cause anemia.

2. Prolapse: As the volume of hemorrhoids increases, they are squeezed by feces during defecation, causing them to gradually separate from the muscle layer and prolapse out of the anus. Sometimes 1-2 hemorrhoids prolapse together, and sometimes all hemorrhoids and rectal mucosa prolapse together. * Initially it only comes out during bowel movements and returns to its original position after defecation. For those with more severe symptoms, the prolapse must be pushed back by hand or rest in bed before it can be restored. For those with more severe symptoms, in addition to prolapse during defecation, it may also occur with any exertion, walking, coughing, sneezing, squatting, etc. Prolapsed hemorrhoids are very susceptible to infection and often become incarcerated due to inflammation, edema, and pain, making reduction difficult.

3. Pain: Simple internal hemorrhoids are generally painless, and sometimes only cause a feeling of heaviness in the anus or difficulty in defecation. If the hemorrhoids are inflamed and swollen, there may be thrombosis or incarceration inside, which will cause pain; if they are prolapsed and not repositioned in time, the pain will worsen; if incarceration occurs, there is ulceration and necrosis, causing inflammation and edema of the anal margin, the pain will be severe and the patient will be restless.

4. Mucus outflow: The rectal mucosa is stimulated by hemorrhoids for a long time, causing increased secretions. In the late stage of internal hemorrhoids, secretions often flow out of the anus due to relaxation of the anal sphincter. In mild cases, it will flow out during bowel movements, and in severe cases, it will flow out naturally even when not having a bowel movement, contaminating the underwear and causing great inconvenience to the patient. When internal hemorrhoids prolapse, the discharge is greater.

5. Itching: Due to the stimulation of secretions or prolapsed hemorrhoids, the anus becomes moist and unclean, causing eczema and itching. The itching is sometimes caused by the reflex action of prolapsed internal hemorrhoids.

After understanding the symptoms of internal hemorrhoids, if you suffer from internal hemorrhoids, it is recommended that you take appropriate treatment as soon as possible. Nowadays, there are many methods to treat internal hemorrhoids. Surgery is the most thorough treatment method. After surgical treatment of internal hemorrhoids, you only need to pay attention to daily care to completely say goodbye to the trouble of hemorrhoids.