What do hemorrhoids look like?

Hemorrhoids are a very common disease, which is very harmful to human health. Medication is a common method for the treatment of hemorrhoids. However, for some serious patients, surgical treatment is also required to improve the hemorrhoid disease. What do hemorrhoids look like? Many people are not clear about this. This disease also has its own characteristics.

Hemorrhoids are a disease that is very easy to get, especially when living an unhealthy lifestyle, it is easy to cause this type of disease. So what do hemorrhoids look like? The following is a detailed introduction so that you can have a better understanding of hemorrhoidal diseases.

What hemorrhoids look like:

What do hemorrhoids look like. The incidence of hemorrhoids is very high. Hemorrhoids are classified into internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids and mixed hemorrhoids. It is a chronic disease in which the venous plexus at the bottom of the anorectum and anal mucosa becomes varicose, forming one or more soft venous masses. Usually, when you continue to exert force during defecation, the pressure in the veins here will repeatedly increase, causing the veins to swell. The swollen and twisted venous walls in the anus will become very thin, making them very easy to rupture during defecation. Hemorrhoids are very painful when they occur and will affect normal bowel movements. Bowel habits are also closely related to hemorrhoids.

Symptoms of hemorrhoids

(1) Bleeding during bowel movements. It is characterized by painlessness, bright red blood, and occurs during bowel movements. The amount of bleeding is generally not heavy, but sometimes it can be heavy. The bleeding stops on its own after defecation. Constipation, hard and dry stools, drinking alcohol and eating spicy foods are the causes of bleeding.

(2) Prolapse of hemorrhoids When hemorrhoids develop to a certain extent, they will protrude outside the anus. The hemorrhoids will grow from small to large and will no longer be able to recover on their own but will need to be pushed back into the anus manually.

(3) Pain: Anal heaviness and pain, often accompanied by a feeling of incomplete defecation. When hemorrhoids prolapse and become incarcerated, edema and infection occur, local pain will be severe.

(4) Pain and itching Pain and itching around the anus, and even skin eczema, often make patients extremely uncomfortable.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of what hemorrhoids look like. Therefore, when treating such a disease, it must be done in a timely manner, and during the treatment process, we must actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment method. This will be of great help to the patient's disease improvement and prevent the disease from continuing to develop.