External Hemorrhoids are Usually Painful and Accompanied by Swelling and Irritation

External hemorrhoids are the most noticeable in terms of pain, bleeding and discomfort. If left untreated they can develop into rather large and excruciatingly painful thrombosed external hemorrhoids that can seriously inhibit your day-to-day lifestyle and can also lead to infection and more serious illnesses.

The obvious external hemorrhoids symptom is noticing a lump extruding from the rectum, which is typically accompanied by pain, itching and bleeding is quite common. An external hemorrhoids photo can be seen by clicking on the image on this page. This is quite a graphic illustration and may offend some people, so please only click the link if you wish to view the image.

Like internal hemorrhoids, external hemorrhoids treatment is done in 2 ways (creams or surgical procedures). External hemorrhoids removal by surgery can be even more excruciating than the hemorrhoids themselves, and in many instances the surgery does not cure the problem. Typical intrusive procedures include practices such as Rubber band ligation, where a rubber band is placed around the base of the hemorrhoid inside the rectum, and the band is supposed to cut off circulation, and the hemorrhoid withers away and falls off.

Procedures that are more 'surgical' in nature include Infrared coagulation (where a special device is used to burn hemorrhoidal tissue) and Hemorrhoidectomy (where the hemorrhoid is surgical cut off). In all these cases, there is a lot of pain involved after the treatment as it can be very painful to defecate while you have stitches or burn tissue that is healing in your rectum.

The least intrusive cure for external hemorrhoids would be a cream product such as Ziro from Zenmed. This product, an external hemorrhoids home treatment, actually soothes and reduces inflammation while working at the core of the problem to help circulation. It acts as a kind of decongestant in the rectum by reducing the swelling which naturally brings with it better blood circulation in the veins.

The advantage of an external hemorrhoids home treatment like Ziro is that it takes away all the embarrassment associated with hemorrhoids. There is nothing pleasant about hemorrhoids, but fact is, over 1/2 the American population will experiencing it by age 50 and it is better to do something about hemorrhoids than not.....