National Nursing Review : Nursing Study Resources & Health Tips

Hemorrhoids are vascular structures of the anal canal in each individual plays an important role in fecal continence. In the presence of symptoms such as bleeding, pain, itching, there may be a pathological condition called hemorrhoidal disease.
In Western countries at various stages of hemorrhoidal disease affects more than 50% of the population and is thus an extremely common disease.
There are several classifications of hemorrhoids, more or less recent, but the distinction of internal and external to the subdivision into four grades, while not the last created are still the most widely used in clinical practice.
If there are symptoms, the first thing to do ‘a visit that may be performed usually by the attending physician, the specialist surgeon or a Coloproctology: It’ important to put a correct diagnosis and differentiate other benign or malignant anorectal region or colon which may present with similar symptoms.
Once confirmed the diagnosis and defined the stage of disease and the symptoms may consider treatment options.
Most of the patients permanently or temporarily solves the problem with medical therapy, or regularization of the hive, dietary modifications and use of customized local or systemic therapies that address the symptomatic picture. In case of continuation or recurrence of symptoms, however, and ‘possible to consider other therapeutic options. (more…)