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May. 4th, 2011 | 03:43 pm
Fiber for Hemorrhoid Treatment
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External Hemorrhoid Treatment - Diet Change
Mar. 30th, 2011 | 04:25 pm
This is the first stage on how to treat your external hemorrhoids. You can speed up your external hemorrhoid treatment by simply changing your diet.
Adding more fiber
Why fiber? Because it aids in the digestion of food thus avoiding you to suffer from constipation. Fiber can help other foods moving through your digestive system. Constipation is a common cause of hemorrhoids. So you need to prevent constipation to avoid getting hemorrhoids.
To get more fiber in your diet, eat foods like cereals, breads, whole fiber - those are example of foods rich in fiber. You need to pick the right kind of foods that are high in fiber that can also be attained by taking sufficient vegetables. Fruits are also rich in fiber, like eating 1 small apple, banana, prunes, giant cherries will serve a gram of fiber.
You can also opt to take food supplements that can give your body the amount of fiber it needs.
Avoiding the fats
To complete your diet change in treating external hemorrhoids, avoiding fatty foods will greatly help in avoiding constipation. Fatty acids slow down the gastrointestinal tract that cause some digestive problems. Avoiding fatty foods also help in loosing weight. Obesity and hemorrhoids are directly connected to each other. If you are obese, tendency is you are putting more pressure in your anus or in the rectal area and there is a high possibility of a hemorrhoid to develop.
Adding more fiber
Why fiber? Because it aids in the digestion of food thus avoiding you to suffer from constipation. Fiber can help other foods moving through your digestive system. Constipation is a common cause of hemorrhoids. So you need to prevent constipation to avoid getting hemorrhoids.
To get more fiber in your diet, eat foods like cereals, breads, whole fiber - those are example of foods rich in fiber. You need to pick the right kind of foods that are high in fiber that can also be attained by taking sufficient vegetables. Fruits are also rich in fiber, like eating 1 small apple, banana, prunes, giant cherries will serve a gram of fiber.
You can also opt to take food supplements that can give your body the amount of fiber it needs.
Avoiding the fats
To complete your diet change in treating external hemorrhoids, avoiding fatty foods will greatly help in avoiding constipation. Fatty acids slow down the gastrointestinal tract that cause some digestive problems. Avoiding fatty foods also help in loosing weight. Obesity and hemorrhoids are directly connected to each other. If you are obese, tendency is you are putting more pressure in your anus or in the rectal area and there is a high possibility of a hemorrhoid to develop.
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How to treat hemorrhoids in a safe and natural way?
Mar. 17th, 2011 | 05:17 pm
Here are some hemorrhoid treatment tips that can help alleviate the pain you are feeling.
Relieving your hemorrhoid symptoms
Itching, burning and pain are just common symptoms when you hemorrhoids. Your hemorrhoids will not heal in an instant after taking any hemorrhoid treatment, but you can deal with its symptoms that is disturbing you a lot.
What you need to do with swelling and burning hemorrhoids?
- Prevent constipation
How are you going to do this?
--Eat the right kind of foods - foods rich in fiber.
--Drink plenty of fluids.
--Do exercise regularly.
--Practice healthy bowel habits
--Eat the right kind of foods - foods rich in fiber.
--Drink plenty of fluids.
--Do exercise regularly.
--Practice healthy bowel habits
- Modify daily activities
Most of us didn't know that some of the things that we used to do may be a factor leading us to have hemorrhoids. And what are these?
--Prolonged sitting or standing - this can add to the pressure in your rectum area causing the veins to become stressed leading to swelling, thus hemorrhoids develop.
--Lifting heavy objects frequently - carrying heavy things adds to the pressure to your body, notice that you need to give a maximum strength in carrying heavy things. This again will stress your veins specifically in the rectal area.
--Prolonged sitting or standing - this can add to the pressure in your rectum area causing the veins to become stressed leading to swelling, thus hemorrhoids develop.
--Lifting heavy objects frequently - carrying heavy things adds to the pressure to your body, notice that you need to give a maximum strength in carrying heavy things. This again will stress your veins specifically in the rectal area.
Relieving your hemorrhoid symptoms
Itching, burning and pain are just common symptoms when you hemorrhoids. Your hemorrhoids will not heal in an instant after taking any hemorrhoid treatment, but you can deal with its symptoms that is disturbing you a lot.
What you need to do with swelling and burning hemorrhoids?
- Take a warm bath
- Do a sitz bath
- Clean your anus with a clean and soft cloth or moistened pads
- You can apply ice packs to relieve the swelling
- Use hemorrhoid creams - but be careful in choosing creams because not all creams are suited for your skin. Ask your doctor about this.
