Question: I’m having bloody stools. Can drinking water help to cure piles?
Answer:
Causes for Hemorrhoids or Piles
- Hard, dry stools with excessive straining at stool
- Habitual constipation
- Prolonged, and habitual use of artificial laxatives to fight constipation
- Inadequate intake of dietary roughage
- Poor water intake
Treatments for Hemorrhoids or Piles
- Enhancing your water intake is one of the ways how you can tackle piles. Water aids in the smooth passage of stools, preventing straining. So step-up your water intake to a minimum of 3 liter daily.
- Avoid straining at stool. It worsens the condition.
- Do not resort to the use of artificial laxatives.They make you highly dependent on them and cause a chronic condition of diarrhoea alternating with constipation, which can have serious repercussions.
- Dry figs are the most excellent and most effective natural hemorrhoid treatment and to battle an improper bowel movement and piles. They encourage a good peristaltic movement and stimulate digestion. They add bulk to the feces, and aid in their easy passage. More about hemorrhoids laser treatment
- Include loads of green leafy vegetables, whole cereals, especially oats, nuts and fruits. They are rich in dietary fibre and prevent constipation.
- Homoeopathic remedy Aloe, is quick acting and highly effective in treatment for piles.It is recommended when there are protruding piles of long standing. Aloe eases the engorgement of veins, reduces the sensation of fullness and heaviness in the rectum and checks constipation.
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I am a worker in a private school, 4 to 5 months back I passed blood in my stool, it was continuous for 4 to 5 days, it then stopped. There is no recurrence, but I am getting pain in my anal region while passing stool and after passing stool the pain does not allow me to sit for some time
Bleeding per rectum has many causes, few of them are:
Anal causes: (a) fissure (b) fistula (C) ulceration in anal region.
Rectal causes: (a) piles (b) polyps in rectum (c) neoplasm.
Intestinal causes: (a) dysentery (b) ulcerative colitis (c) polyps.
You had bleeding per rectum, did you have pain at that time in your anus while passing stool? Was the stool streaked with blood? Presently is it so?
There are two causes to be ruled out Piles and fissure. Piles can be internal or external. External piles can be felt. But internal piles are not visible they have to be examined by a doctor by an instrument called proctoscope. In both the condition bleeding is present. Piles can be painful or painless.
Fissures are cuts in anal region. They bleed when hard stool passes through the anal region; the bleeding is caused due to the hard stool. Pain is the subsequent symptom. Pain is spasmodic shortly after passage of stool. The margin of the stool is streaked with blood. This is characteristic of fissures in anal region. It is often preceded by constipation.
Some times fissure and piles are present together.
Treatment: (a) Constipation is one of the important causes of rectal bleeding. It is cured by taking laxative, soft diet, vegetables, physsilum husk with water.
(b) Local application of anesthetic agent, after each bowel movement.
(c) Seitz bath: sit in a tub containing warm water for at least 20 minutes.
Do you suffer from constipation? Is there any blood streaked stool? It is advisable to be examined by a doctor, as internal piles are not visible, you will also come to know the right diagnosis after checking.