External hemorrhoids: Sorting Fact from Fiction

• Only old people get external hemorrhoids.

False.  Both internal and external bleeding hemorrhoids can happen to people at any stage of life.  In fact, hemorrhoids are commonly seen in women of childbearing age, because the stresses of childbirth on the perianal area often bring on hemorrhoids.

Even children as young as 12 can suffer from external hemorrhoids.

• Spicy hot food is the leading cause of hemorrhoids, so if you leave these out of your diet, external hemorrhoids won’t trouble you again.

False.  It’s easy to see how this myth began, as hot food irritates hemorrhoids when they are passed out of the body, making them feel
more painful.  In the case of internal rather than external hemorrhoids, this irritation may trigger the bleeding that alerts you to the problem.  But spicy food doesn’t cause hemorrhoids.

• ·Prolapsed hemorrhoids are the same as external hemorrhoids.

False.  However, prolapsed hemorrhoids and external hemorrhoids look very similar.

The difference is this: external hemorrhoids start in tissue that is very close to the anal opening.  Prolapsed hemorrhoids, on the
other hand, start higher up the anal canal and then bulge or protrude out.  While both prolapsed and external hemorrhoids are visible outside the body, external hemorrhoids are usually smaller than prolapsed ones… though not always.

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• Eating more fiber is the best way to make your external hemorrhoids go away.

False.  While the straining associated with constipation (and, incidentally, diarrhea) is often a root cause of external hemorrhoids, it
is not the only cause.  Diet does indeed play a role in treating hemorrhoids (Hemorrhoid Miracle will tell you the full story about diet and herbal remedies that will help you say goodbye to your external hemorrhoids).  But diet isn’t the only aspect to treating hemorrhoids.

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• External hemorrhoids are just like varicose veins.

True.  Varicose veins and external hemorrhoids (and internal ones) have a similar physiology.  Both involve the little capillaries
expanding and bulging as the body attempts to pump more blood through them than they were really meant to carry.  External hemorrhoids and varicose veins have another couple of things in common: they look ghastly and they hurt.

• External hemorrhoids are worse than internal hemorrhoids.

True and false.  Both types of hemorrhoids have their good sides (hmmm – maybe make that the “not so terrible” sides) and their bad sides.  It is certainly true that external hemorrhoids are more prone to irritation and itching, as they are located on the outside of the anus and they get knocked and bumped – and irritated – every time you sit down or even every time you move.

External hemorrhoids are also more prone to becoming thromboses or having blood clots form inside them.  However, internal hemorrhoids are more prone to  becoming strangulated than external hemorrhoids – this is a very painful condition where the anal canal tightens and cuts off the blood supply to the hemorrhoid.

• · External hemorrhoids aren’t dangerous.

True.  External hemorrhoids are not life-threatening… if you mean that external hemorrhoids won’t kill you.  However, external
hemorrhoids cause a lot of pain and inconvenience.  Who  really wants to head into the lavatory with a messy lubricant cream?  Who wants to consume laxatives in the hope of not irritating their external hemorrhoids next time they have a bowel motion (incidentally, this is about the worst thing you could do as a hemorrhoid remedy, as laxatives cause extra straining, which just makes the hemorrhoids worse.

And the other thing with external hemorrhoids in particular is that they can inhibit or completely kill your romantic/sexual life: who can relax and have fun knowing that there’s a big ugly lump “down there” that’s likely to get hurt and start bleeding.  Thank goodness there’s a way to avoid all this and get your quality of life back – free from external hemorrhoids.

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• The only cure for external hemorrhoids is hemorrhoid banding or laser surgery.

False.  If you or your doctor believe that surgery is the only way to fix external hemorrhoids for good and for all, you obviously haven’t heard of the H Miracle system.  This is a 100% natural method of treating both internal and external hemorrhoids that has proven to be extremely effective.

This method treats hemorrhoids from all aspects, dealing with the cause of external hemorrhoids so you can finally be free of the pain and shame.  Visit this to find out more about the H Miracle system for curing external hemorrhoids.

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