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What Are Hemorrhoids?
What Causes Hemorrhoids?
Risk Factors for Hemorrhoids
Symptoms of Hemorrhoids
How to Relieve Symptoms of Hemorrhoids
How to Make a Sitz Bath to Cure Hemorrhoids
What Are the Best Treatment Products for Hemorrhoids?
Lubrication to Relieving Hemorrhoids
Diet & Curing Hemorrhoids
Natural Treatments for Hemorrhoids
How to Relieve Hemorrhoid Pressure
Drinking Beverages & Relieving Hemorrhoid Symptoms
How to Lift Weights with Hemorrhoids
Resources for the Treatment of Hemorrhoids
Learn about Hemorrhoids in this free home health video series.… More
Discover what causes hemorrhoids in this free home health video series.… More
Learn the symptoms of hemorrhoids in this free home health video series.… More
Hemorrhoids are swollen blood vessels found at the lowest part of the anus. Other terms for hemorrhoids ar… More
Hemorrhoids are common throughout pregnancy and even after delivery. Though painful, hemorrhoids are gener… More
Bananas in the diet can help with hemorrhoids by increasing bowel movements when eaten in conjunction with… More
Caring for hemorrhoids involves easing the pain at home with ice packs and creams and by raising fiber int… More
External hemorrhoids occur when an extreme amount of pressure has been placed in the rectum, forcing too m… More
Caring for hemorrhoids involves preventing an infection by staying clean and easing the pain with ice pack… More
Hemorrhoids are mainly caused by dilations of blood vessels that line the anal area. When force is exerted… More
How to lift weights with hemorrhoids in this free home health video series.… More
Discover the risk factors for hemorrhoids in this free home health video series.… More
How lubrication to relieves hemorrhoids in this free home health video series.… More
Hemorrhoids, or the piles, is a painful swelling of veins in and around the rectum and anal sphincter. The… More
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Summary: Discover what causes hemorrhoids in this free home health video series.
Dr. Susan Jewell is a trained doctor and scientist in clinical research medicine, as well as a stem cell scientist in oncology and AIDS/HIV at the National Cancer Institute and UCLA...read more
"Hello my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village I am going to talk to you today about hemorrhoids. About the causes of hemorrhoids and the signs and symptoms and what you can actually do to relieve the pain from hemorrhoids. Now in this clip we are going to show you how hemorrhoids are formed. If you take a look at this diagram that I have drawn this is actually someone's body. This would be the head region here. And this would be his foot area. So this is a rough diagram of the anus region and the rectum because this represents the colon and here is the belly button to give you orientation. Now the sphincter muscle which actually if I draw it is if this is and if you was to look down at a person this would be the sphincter muscle. So this would be the anus region and the anus is actually a ring of muscular circular muscles that contracts and relaxes when you are passing stools. But the anus is supplied by lots of blood vessels which I have here in longitudinal section. So you can see the blood vessels actually supplying the sphincter muscles around here. Now what happens is hemorrhoids are formed when there is like increased pressure on these vessels so that you have got increased pressure either from certain drugs or diets, or being overweight or pregnancy by the developing fetus getting larger. It compresses these vessels here so that it stops the blood flow from actually reaching the sphincter muscle and these vessels here then actually start to bulge out and then you are going to get a massive these vessels will bulge and you will get big hemorrhoids or out growths. External ones or you can also get internal hemorrhoids. So that is actually the cause of hemorrhoids the formation of hemorrhoids."
eHow Article: What Causes Hemorrhoids?
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