Piles Symptoms including symptoms of piles for bleeding piles and thrombosed piles.

Piles Symptoms

Identifying piles symptoms will help you learn whether or not you have Piles.  Once you have identified the symptoms of Piles you can get Piles treatment.

Common Piles Symptoms include the following symptoms:

• bright red blood from your anus, which you may notice on the toilet paper when wiping, or in the toilet bowl after you have dropped a deuce.
• a lump on the anus
• pain and discomfort after you have opened your bowels
• a slimy discharge of mucus, which may leave you itchy 
• a feeling that your bowels have not finished emptying
• soiling underwear (This Piles symptom is common with third or fourth degree piles)

Bright red blood from the anus is most likely to come from piles, rather than anything more serious than Piles. However, if you aren't quite sure whether the bleeding is due to piles or not, you should visit your GP for advice and to get more information about the symptoms of Piles.

What exactly are Piles?

Piles are swellings on the inside of the anal canal. The anal canal is the short, muscular tube that connects the rectum with the anus, in areas known as the anal cushions. They are round swellings that can reach the size of a marble. Piles are not to be mistaken for varicose veins.

What causes someone to get Piles?

The exact cause of piles isn't known yet. One theory is that it's due to weakness of the tissue that connects the anal cushions to the muscle layers underneath. Due to this weakness, the anal cushions slide out of their normal place and down the back passage.

However, what we do know at this time is that people have an increased risk of getting piles if they:

• strain to empty the bowels, which basically means if they have constipation 
• eat a diet that doesn't get enough fiber in it
• have long-lasting diarrhea
• are pregnant - due to the effect of hormones on the blood vessels, plus the increasing weight of the baby within your abdomen
• hereditary - family members have had Piles
• have cancer or growths in your pelvis or bowel, which may put pressure on the abdomen

Are all Piles the same?

No. There are different types of Piles.

Types of piles

Although piles develop from inside the anal canal, they can hang down out of their normal place. Piles can be described like this.

• 1st degree piles are swellings on the inside lining of the anal canal. They bleed but they don't hang down in visible sight. 
• 2nd degree piles are larger and stick out more from the anus when the bowels are opened, but they return on their own back into the anus afterwards.
• 3rd degree piles are similar, but hang out from the anus they don't go back into the anus unless you stuff them back in there
• 4th degree piles permanently hang down from the anus and you can't push them back inside even when you try to stuff them back in there. Fourth degree piles may become extremely swollen and painful if the blood in them clots.

External piles

Swellings that develop from below the anal cushions are referred to as external piles. External piles can be more painful than the other types of piles. Other causes of lumps around the anus can include a "sentinel pile", which is the painless skin tag that develops when a crack in the anus (an anal fissure) heals up. Furthermore, a collection of blood under the skin, called a peri-anal haematoma, may also be referred to as a type of external pile. The treatment of these conditions is different from true piles.

Piles Treatment

If you have identified Piles Symptoms and you are sure you have Piles it's important for you to try to keep your feces soft.  Be sure to drink plenty of water and eat foods high in fiber.  There are outpatient treatments for piles you can take at the hospital if necessary.

What is Piles Banding?

Piles banding is a Piles treatment used for 2nd and 3rd degree Piles. The doctor places an elastic band around the piles which cuts off the blood flow, similar to casteration of animals. 

Sclerotherapy Treatment for Piles

Piles Sclerotherapy treatment is an injection of an oily solution known as a sclerosant into 1st or 2nd degree piles. The oil causes the pile to shrink and eventually fall off.

In-patient Piles treatments are also available.  They include Haemorrhoidectomy and Haemorrhoidopexy.  

As with most conditions or diseases, one of the most important things is making sure you identify the symptoms.  So with piles, it is very important that you identify the symptoms of piles early.  Bleeding piles is the symptom most associated with Piles Symptoms.  Symptoms of Piles are somewhat similar to Hemorrhoids symptoms but bleeding piles distinguishes the two for the most part.  The cure for piles is using the various Piles treatments we listed above, but again, it is very important to identify the Piles symptoms so you realize what condition you have.

For more information about Piles or Piles symptoms consult your doctor.

 

 

Piles Symptoms including symptoms of piles for bleeding piles and thrombosed piles.