Hemorrhoid is a burden. Hemorrhoid causes shame and embarrassment to someone who has it. Over the years, people are finding ways on how to avoid this unwanted ailment. Natural and herbal procedures are usually suggested for cure and prevention. Foods with high fiber content is usually advised to soften out the stool coming out when you do your bowel movement. But in severe cases, a surgery treatment must be applied immediately. This applies to internal and external hemorrhoids which prolapsed already in the rectal area of the patient. And there are various types of hemorrhoid surgery a patient gets to choose from actually.
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Types Of Hemorrhoid Surgery
1. Banding. A tight band is tied off at the base of the hemorrhoid to stop its blood supply. The procedure starts when the doctor places an instrument or what they call the anoscope in the anus. It is used to view the anal area and also to determine where the band must be tied off during the operation. The surgery usually takes two or more procedures. After the operation, the patient would mostly feel pressure and mild discomfort in his rectal area. If the band is too tight and discomforting, the patient can ask the doctor to give him anesthetic medications to ease or numb the pain away. The banded hemorrhoid is expected to shrink and fall after a few days or weeks of the operation.
2. Sclerotherapy. In this procedure, a chemical called sclerosant is injected into the infected part to stop its blood supply. It is not painful actually, as said by the other patients who went through with this kind of medical surgery. But this operation is recommended only on internal hemorrhoid.It is not effective with the external one.The patient will be asked to perform his bowel movement before the operation. Usually, the chemical injected around the tissue will make the hemorrhoid shrink and drop off days later after the operation. Bleeding will also occur in the rectal area as one of the effects of hemorrhoid surgery.
3. Coagulation Therapy. It uses infrared light, heat and intense cold in the procedure. This approach will cause the hemorrhoid to fall off in a span of few days after the surgery. The patient would experience pain and a little discomfort as the surgical treatment happens. In other private clinics, some doctor would also use laser to cut off the blood supply of hemorrhoid. A scar tissue would most likely occur once the hemorrhoid drops off. It has its limitation though. Only one hemorrhoid can be treated at a time because the procedure comes with intervals.
4. Hemorrhoidectomy. This procedure would require the doctor and other surgeons to perform it on the hospital. External and internal hemorrhoids that has prolapsed will be removed in one operation. The patient is also required to be given a huge amount of anesthetic treatment before he undergoes with the operation. He has options actually, in the way that he should be given some numb treatments. He could take a general anesthesia wherein he’ll be put in a deep sleep at the entire process of the operation,or a regional anesthesia where the back of his body and his waist down will be left numb. There’s also the option of local anesthesia wherein the patient only feels the numbness in his rectal area.
5. Hemorrhoidopexy. This is less painful than the hemorrhoidectomy. This procedure involves three series of anesthetic procedures namely the general, regional and local anesthesia. Usually called stapling, hemorrhoidopexy involves the process of putting back the prolapsed hemorrhoid inside the rectum to cut off the blood supply and shrink the unwanted element which is expected to drop off in a couple of days.
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