Symptoms Of Hemorrhoids

Hemorrhoids are certain swollen veins outcomes from various causes. The most common sign and symptom of hemorrhoids is bleeding but it is painless. Sometimes there will be bright red blood on the toilet paper comes from the outside of the stools after wiping or the blood drops into the bowls of toilet. This kind of bleeding is often self-limiting.

The common symptoms of hemorrhoids are many, but usually they depend on the location of the hemorrhoids. In internal hemorrhoids located inside the rectum, we cannot feel the symptoms because they rarely cause pain. However, symptoms of prolapsed internal hemorrhoid occurring when the internal hemorrhoids extend and swell from their origin location through the anus can be felt. They include feeling as a lump outside the anus. Sometimes this lump can be pushed back thru the anus but oftentimes it can swell and enlarge even more when it cannot be pushed back. If it becomes entrapped, medical attention is required.  

In external hemorrhoids lied around your anus, we can easily feel the common signs such as itchy and bleed. Blood pooling in an external hemorrhoids can result in a clot that is severely painful, inflamed and swelled. If the blood clots swelled and inflamed, it will cause a painful condition called thrombosed external hemorrhoids. The more the swelling, the more the pain. The pain of thrombosed external increases with sitting and get worse with bowel movement. Most of them need medical treatment and care.

In addition to the common symptoms based on the location of hemorrhoids, there are general hemorrhoids common symptoms. The symptoms can appear as incomplete or constant feeling of the need of having bowel movement, bleeding bowel movements, pruritus ani or rectal itching and soft lump felt at the anal opening. The other general symptoms are pain or discomfort, leakage of feces and sensitive lump near the anus. However, for the bleeding with the bowel movement, it usually can come from more serious reasons, such as serious tumors, infections and inflammatory bowel diseases. Therefore, it is always abnormal and it should get prompt treatment from a health care practitioner.

At last, we can conclude that usually hemorrhoids symptoms are categorized based on location, internal or external, and there are additional symptoms called general symptoms. Internal hemorrhoids are not so irritating, but external hemorrhoids are severely painful. General symptoms of hemorrhoids can range from discomfort to leakage of feces. We should be careful with symptoms with bleeding of bowel movement because that shows more causes that are serious.