Hemorrhoids is such a disease that some people endure for a very long time, treat themselves on their own, embarrassed to see a doctor in a polyclinic, and bring them to the state of necessity of the operation. Timely diagnosis, performance of doctor's appointments and recommendations for lifestyle changes, as well as treatment in a sanatorium can stop the pathological process without resorting to hospitalization in the hospital.
In the initial stages, hemorrhoids are treated as outpatients. On an appointment with a proctologist or surgeon, you need to come to the clinic if the symptoms can not be eliminated by the independent use of special external means, diet and a healthy lifestyle.
Outpatient therapy consists in the appointment for ingestion and externally of drugs with anticoagulant, venotonic and anti-inflammatory action and control of their effectiveness.
In addition, under the conditions of a specialized polyclinic, it is possible to carry out minimally invasive manipulations, such as the imposition of latex ligatures on the expanded rectal assemblies or their thermal coagulation( moxibustion).In the absence of severe concomitant diseases and complications, these procedures are well tolerated, and ambulatory treatment of hemorrhoids is sufficient to obtain a stable improvement in the patient's condition. The doctor of the clinic can also recommend treatment in a sanatorium.
Treatment of hemorrhoids in the sanatorium
The recognized curative factors for improving the condition of patients with hemorrhoids is the use of mineral waters and therapeutic mud. Physiotherapeutic effects of common baths, microclysters and intestinal irrigation with mineral water and its consumption inside is to improve motor function of the intestine, general strengthening of immunity, reduction of inflammation and normalization of venous blood flow.
Application for microclysters and applications of hydrogen sulphide mud also improves intestinal motility, removes inflammatory reactions, exerts a resolving and immunostimulating effect.
In addition to the well-known Matsesta and Sernovodsk, local sanatoriums with suitable water and mud, where hemorrhoids are successfully treated, are found in many places in Russia.
Contraindication to hemorrhoid therapy in the sanatorium's water and mud baths is the infringement of the nodes, polyps in the intestines, cancer, severe cardiovascular pathology and some other conditions that the doctor of the clinic should know when filling out the voucher.
How is hemorrhoids treated in a hospital?
A complicated course of hemorrhoids in the later stages is treated in a hospital. Infringement and necrosis of nodes, severe bleeding, thrombosis of external nodes, severe pain syndrome may require emergency hospitalization and operation. It is better not to bring the disease to such a state. If a doctor at a polyclinic suggests timely treatment of hemorrhoids in a hospital, do not pull with consent.
The sooner the necessary manipulations are carried out, the better will be the result of therapy.
How many are in the hospital with hemorrhoids?
The answer to this question depends both on the degree of the disease, and on the conditions of the hospital where the treatment will be performed. In a specialized proctology department equipped with modern equipment, where doctors constantly improve methods of treating hemorrhoids, lie less. There one can expect a better and more rapid result than from the surgical department of the district hospital, which performs such operations only from time to time.
For example, the use of a minimally invasive suture ligation of the rectum arteries under the control of ultrasound dopplerometry, allows you to securely fix the nodes and stop the flow of blood in them. Lying in the hospital after this procedure no more than three days.
The gold standard for the treatment of hemorrhoids of the fourth stage, as well as the third in the presence of large permanently dropping nodes, is the operation of hemorrhoidectomy. First of all, it is shown to young patients and middle-aged people, in whom severe blood loss and seasonal exacerbations lead to significant anemia and decreased ability to work.
The long-term consequences of this operation do not always remain good for non-observance of health recommendations, heavy physical exertion.
But the elderly patients, people with severe concomitant pathology, the fourth stage of hemorrhoids is not necessarily an indication for the operation. The fact is that healing processes at this age are slower, and complications in the form of incontinence of urine and feces can significantly worsen the quality of life. In addition, elderly patients are more likely to adhere to recommendations for health improvement through diet, gymnastics, hygiene rules. This careful treatment of yourself with outpatient monitoring in a polyclinic gives a result no worse than an operation.