Bleeding Internal Hemroids - Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

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1.. Bleeding Internal Hemroids: CAUSES and SYMPTOMS

Bleeding internal hemroids occur, because at least one of the internal hemroids is scratched, either through wiping or the passing of a hard stool - with blood sometimes showing up on the toilet paper or in the poo or stool.

Bright red blood is normally indicative of bleeding hemroids, whereas darker blood is suggestive of bleeding much further up the anal canal and not so much from bleeding hemroids.

Warning, bleeding may be due to other possibilities, such as cancer, typhoid fever. Bleeding should NOT be put down to bleeding internal hemroids until after the doctor's examination, including the anorectal examination - including sigmoidoscopy, which involves inserting a tube about 25 inches or 65 cm up the anal canal that allows the doctor to visually inspect the inside of the rectum.

If a colonoscopy appears required, the tube goes up a long long way. Only this type of extensive examination can rule out most of the other nasties that may imitate bleeding internal hemroids.

Why do hemorids bleed so freely or so much?  Simple, the hemroids are swollen blood vessels, if the blood vessel is damaged, the blood in the swelling is released and, for some people, those bleeding hemroids can release a lot of blood from those blood engorged swollen blood vessels.

2.. Bleeding internal hemroids TREATMENTS

There are a number of treatments that are appear to be good for bleeding internal hemroids:

The first treatment is to keep the stools soft, but not runny. The hemroids treatment for this normally involves taking more insoluble fibre and more water into the diet. The fibre can come from high fibre foods, such as wholemeal bread, wholegrain cereals and breads, skins of fruit and vegetables, seeds and, dried legumes (peas and beans). The insoluble bran can also be purchased as wheat bran, corn bran and rice bran, which is then added into foods such as cake, pancake and scone mixtures. The brans can also be sprinkled onto breakfast cereal.

However, if you are on a high fibre diet and your stools are small and hard, it is possible you may need to cut back on the fibre. Too much fibre can cause constipation, which can cause hemroids to become damaged and to bleed as a result.   Always drink plenty of water along with high fiber, as the fiber will absorb the water and make the stool much softer and easier to pass.

The next line of bleeding internal hemroids treatments involves using creams, suppositories or injections specially designed to lower the blood flow in the hemroids and or are aimed at shrinking the bleeding internal hemroids. By doing so, the hemroid bleeding is reduced or stopped - at least until the medication wears off.  Doctor's prescription necessary.

Another line of treatment to stop the hemroids from bleeding, is the use of herbs, in particular, their essential oils. Although Amoils sell such a product of essential oils, they do not state which essential oils they use as a treatment for bleeding internal hemroids. 

One article on essential oils and bleeding hemorrhoids that is widely distributed on the internet appears to state that Cypress is an essential oil to aid the bleeding from hemroids as a treatment, that is make them bleed or bleed more.  However, on researching it further, I found that the exact opposite was meant by the author. 

Further research also shows that Pelargonium (type of geranium) may be useful to stop the bleeding from hemroids, but I still have to determine how safe it is to use on bleeding internal hemroids, even though it is commonly used on non-bleeding hemroids. If you know, you may like to direct me to the information - book, article, web site...

However, using the herbal treatments for bleeding internal hemorrhoids, whether prolapsed or not, is not without risk.

Goes without saying, wipe gently and use soft wet cloth or soft toilet paper to do so.

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