Hemorrhoid surgery options   by David Payne

in Health / Diseases and Conditions    (submitted 2010-12-31)

It's likely you have arrived at a place where balanced nutrition, a healthy lifestyle and natural cures just don’t improve your hemorrhoids any longer - if they have ever really helped at all.

Hemorrhoids can be an inherited problem. Granted, piles are a complication which a great number of the population cope with but some men and women are simply much more susceptible to them. Unfortunately, this can mean that we have to turn to hemorrhoid surgery. This article has been written to ensure that you have the lowdown regarding the different hemorrhoid surgical options.

Hemorrhoid banding

This is often the initial (minor) surgical option for piles sufferers. In fact it isn’t always widely known as hemorrhoid surgery - you may hear of it labelled as a piles treatment as it can be performed without anaesthetic. Banding functions by cutting of the blood supply towards the hemorrhoid. Using a particular tool, the physician will tie a rubber band closely around hemorrhoid. In 1 - 2 weeks the hemorrhoid should, in theory, drop off without any further treatment. Typically this treatment is considered to be suitable for treating 2nd or 3rd degree piles and has been reported as having an eighty percent success rate.

Sclerotherapy (injections)

This process will involve injecting specific chemical compounds directly into the hemorrhoid. The idea is that it permanently scars the vein to decrease blood circulation and greatly reduce the hemorrhoid. The injection applied above the dentate line so this means that it is less uncomfortable.

Nevertheless, it's been claimed that results might only last about one year and that it is actually unsuitable for much more serious hemorrhoids.

Stapled Hemorrhoidectomy (or stapling)

This is often a hemorrhoid surgery option that is a slightly less serious version of a complete hemorrhoidectomy. Rather than cutting out the hemorrhoid, the surgeon uses a particular type of stapling gun to fix the pile to the anal canal. This pulls the hemorrhoid further up and into the anus and reduces its blood flow. If your doctor advocates a complete hemorrhoidectomy it is usually worth asking about this hemorrhoid surgical option - mainly due to the fact it can be considerably less painful!

Hemorrhoidectomy

This could be the final option for several sufferers of serious hemorrhoids. You will be placed under general (or sometimes spinal) anesthetic and the hemorrhoid will be “tied off” to restrict blood flow. The operating doctor will then cut into the hemorrhoid to eliminate it entirely.

Nevertheless. . .it is extremely painful. Despite the fact that it is conducted under general anesthetic, the recovery time usually requires between 2 and 6 weeks.

THD hemorrhoid treatment

This is a newer hemorrhoid treatment that has numerous major benefits over all of the above. It functions by tying off the arterial the flow of blood to the hemorrhoids and has a incredibly high success rate. It is also comparatively painless with a fast recovery time - routinely within one day.

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