Thrombosed Hemorrhoids

Thrombosed hemorrhoids are caused when blood pools in distended vein and forms a clot. This condition is very, very painful and usually demands immediate medical attention. Besides pain, this condition can also cause swelling, itching and if not treated, burning feeling. If compared between internal and external, thrombosed external hemorrhoids are the more common ones.

Internal hemorrhoids can also develop hemorrhoid thrombosis, it happens during the 4th phase of the prolapse when they can become strangulated by spasm of anal sphincter complex. If left untreated it can lead to a hemorrhoids thrombosis. This condition is equally painful as thrombosed external hemorrhoids.

Symptoms

Symptoms are easy to recognize, most probably you will feel them right away. Pain along with itching is the most common symptom. As hemorrhoids are located in a difficult to see spot, unless you use some hand held mirror you’ll probably miss the blue, purple and red coloration of the inflamed area, which is actually the first symptom of thrombosed external hemorrhoids.

What you can do as soon as you feel slight itching or pain is to act immediately. Use sitz baths, along with anti inflammatory creams and try to minimize thrombosis effects, also avoid rubbing, use ice packs, try to rest as much as possible and avoid sitting or straining.

Common symptoms:

• Pain (severe).
• Anal itching and burning.
• Blue, purple or red lumps around anus.
• Blood on a toilet paper (both external and internal) - Bleeding hemorrhoids.
• Difficulty to clean the anal area (skin tags from previous hemorrhoid inflammations).
• Tissue that bulges out of anus constantly - Prolapsed hemorrhoids.

Causes

A cause of thrombosed external hemorrhoids is clotting of blood inside a vein. Why that happens? Hemorrhoids thrombosis is only the final, most painful stage of illness. In fact there are many causes for hemorrhoids, but improper nutrition, bad bowel habits, lack of movement and genetic predisposition are the main causes.

While you can't do anything about your genetics, nutrition and bowel habits can be changed for the better. The cause for internal thrombosed hemorrhoid is a spasm of a sphincter muscle, which cuts off the blood supply. A very, very painful condition which can even progress to gangrene if left untreated.

Most common causes:

• Rushing to complete a bowel movement.
• Not washing up after bowel movement.
• Constipation (lack of fiber in your diet, also inadequate water consumption).
• Diarrhea.
• Being overweight.
• Pregnancy hemorrhoids.

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