Treating Hemorrhoids in Men: Top Tips for Success

Men tend to be more vulnerable to hemorrhoids 

Experts claim that men are more vulnerable to hemorrhoids than women. In this study, men suffering from hemorrhoids were younger, more physically active. In addition, men usually suffer more than women as they refuse to see a doctor and seek answers to their annoying hemorrhoids symptoms online.

According to experts, this approach of symptoms denial involves risks. If a man feels pain or colic in the anus, the first thing to do is seek medical advice. Based on the patient's clinical picture, the specialist will suggest the appropriate effective treatment of hemorrhoids.

The treatment of hemorrhoids depends on the stage at which it is:

1. The first stage of the disease is characterized by itching and pain in the anus. Also at this stage, the patient may experience mild bleeding.
2. In the next stage, the symptoms become more intense, and hemorrhoids appear. Often, patients notice the presence of hemorrhoids when they visit the toilet but are automatically rearranged.
3. The third stage is characterized by the appearance of hemorrhoids during the lifting of heavy objects, during defecation, even with coughing and requires resuscitation by hand.
4. The fourth stage of the disease is the most painful. At this stage, the patient's anal pain almost never subsides. The patient suffers and feels the urgent need to sit or go to the toilet. Often the patient at this stage complains that he has the feeling that there is a foreign body in his rectum.

You can see the different stages here.

In the early stages of hemorrhoids, doctors prescribe conservative treatment to patients. If the disease is at an advanced stage, specialists also resort to invasive surgical techniques such as removal.

Drugs for the treatment of hemorrhoids are either drugs of external use (often called local drugs) or drugs administered orally:

• Generally, ointments and suppositories of external use are recommended in order to relieve the symptoms of the disease.
• Oral medications include systemic drugs, such as drops and pills for the treatment of hemorrhoids.

Local treatment is designed to soothe pain and inflammation. However, the effect of topical drugs is often temporary. When this is over, patients need to resort to medication again to relieve their symptoms.

Systemic drugs for the treatment of hemorrhoids work from within, for example phlebotonic drugs. It consists of 5 flavonoids with synergistic action and strengthens the venous tone and reduces venous stasis and permeability of capillaries. Thanks to these properties, the drugs for the treatment of the symptoms of hemorrhoidal crisis eliminates the painful symptoms of the disease, and therefore immediately the patient can fully return to his daily life ^1,2 Finally, it reduces the risk of further disease progression and relapses.³