For the effective treatment of hemorrhoids, an integrated approach is recommended that involves not only medical therapy, but also the use of folk methods, diet, even lifestyle changes, for example, with its lack of mobility. As medicines, tablets used orally, as well as suppositories and ointments that have a local effect directly on the rectal area are used. Local remedies relieve pain syndrome, inflammation, have a narrowing effect on the veins of cavernous tissue of the rectum. The drug itself and the scheme of its use is prescribed by the proctologist. The choice of medication in each case depends on the severity of the ailment, the features of the development of the disease and the personal characteristics of the patient's body. For example:
- Effectively helps the patient to get rid of strong, throbbing pain using Emla ointments, Proctosan or Relief Advance. All these hemorrhoidal ointments with anesthetic act quickly and relatively safely.
- With mild disease, the use of simple, and therefore inexpensive ointments, for example, heparin, is recommended.
- With a wide localization of the inflammatory process, it is better for patients to use creams from hemorrhoids with anesthetic and anti-inflammatory activity spectrum, for example, Ibuprofen or Diclofenac.
- If inflammation affects the skin of the anal opening, local use of pastes from hemorrhoids with an antimicrobial and antibacterial effect, such as Levomecol and Vishnevsky ointment, is recommended.
- In case of bleeding from the anus, combined medications with anesthesia, anti-inflammatory, thrombotic and vasoconstrictive effect are used, for example, Relief or Adroxon.
How is ointment applied to hemorrhoids?
It does not matter if a cheap ointment is used for hemorrhoids or expensive, the principle of their use is quite similar:
- These are topical preparations that are applied thinly to inflamed skin and mucous membranes. For convenience, they are equipped with a special tip, which makes it easier to inject the medicine into the affected area. Such a tip is in the ointment Proctosider. Means of a wide spectrum of action, for example, heparin or tetracycline ointment, are not equipped with such tips. They are recommended to be applied to a cotton swab, which should be pushed through the anus with a finger.
- Ointment should reach the internal and external nodes, as it is their increase and inflammation that brings the patient unpleasant sensations and pain.
- Apply the medicine better twice a day: after defecation and at night. After easing acute symptoms, you can reduce the use of ointment from hemorrhoids up to once a day.
- It is necessary to smear hemorrhoids after cleansing the skin and drying it with a soft towel.
- Since some of the drugs from hemorrhoids include hormonal components, use these drugs with caution. You can not independently, without consulting a specialist, increase the number of daily gel applications or prolong the treatment schedule longer than the proctologist has determined.
- The standard therapy regimen provides application of ointments to hemorrhoids for 7 days. Only heparin ointment can be used up to 10 consecutive days.
Composition of ointments from hemorrhoids
Depending on the main effect on hemorrhoids and mucous membranes, the composition of the preparations can be very different:
- Ointments with haemostatic effect stop bleeding.
- Means with anesthetic quickly anesthetize.
- Cooling gel facilitates the condition due to the flow of blood from the inflamed area and relieves pain and swelling.
- Preparations with phlebotonic effect reduce hemorrhoids.
- Anti-inflammatory ointments are effective for a significant location of the disease.
Some pastes contain several active ingredients. Such funds from hemorrhoids belong to the category of complex drugs. There are natural ointments, which include natural components, and there are synthetic ones. To say that some are better and more effective than others, since each drug is developed and manufactured for a specific category of cases and symptoms. In some cases, alternating ointments from hemorrhoids during the day is recommended. In other cases, this is categorically contraindicated, since the use of one medicine excludes the use of others. If the rectal agent does not help after several applications, you should immediately inform the doctor. To avoid unpleasant consequences, to achieve the maximum therapeutic effect in the treatment of hemorrhoids ointment, it is strongly recommended to start using them only after consulting a narrow medical specialist.
Advantages of ointments from hemorrhoids
Like any other dosage form, ointment has its advantages when used. The advantages of its application include:
- Complexity: most hemorrhoids remedies in the form of ointments solve several problems at once, for example, reduce swelling and pain, stop bleeding, and have an anti-inflammatory effect.
- Efficacy: since ointments from hemorrhoids have good permeability, their active substances quickly penetrate into the inflamed part of the anus and begin to act.
- Ease of use: ointments are already ready for use, in addition, some inexpensive hemorrhoid preparations are equipped with a tip for easy insertion.
Which ointments from hemorrhoids are the most effective?
The modern pharmacological market offers many expensive and cheap medicines. Many patients are interested in which ointment is the most effective, strong, best, fast-acting. It is important to understand that different preparations can be effective at different stages of the disease and with different forms of its manifestation. The best and most effective for a particular patient is that ointment against hemorrhoids, which after the course of application will show the strongest results on cure.
The list of popular drugs of Russian and imported production is growing every year. And many people who are engaged in independent treatment, appearing in a pharmacy, are asked the question: "What cheap and effective rectal remedy for inflammation of hemorrhoids to buy?"Independently to find the answer to this question, without having a profile medical education, it is unlikely to work. It is best to consult a proctologist who advises not only an inexpensive and effective, but also a safe remedy for the whole organism.
The list of inexpensive and strong ointments may look like this:
- Vishnevsky;
- Heparin;
- Tetracycline;
- Salicylic;
- Levomekol;
- Hepatrombin;
- Troxevasin;
- Relief;
- Simply sit;
- Proctosan.
The name of the gels is listed in the order of increasing price and efficiency. The first listed inexpensive preparations of a wide spectrum of action of the Russian manufacturer, and in the lower part of the list - the most expensive means, including imported production. Consider some rectal ointments for relieving inflammation in the rectum in more detail:
- Tetracycline is an inexpensive ointment manufactured in Russia with a wide spectrum of action. The drug with antibacterial effect is used for infectious skin pathologies, to reduce inflammation, relieve edema and reduce the size of hemorrhoids.
- Prostosidim - a drug of a narrow spectrum of action. The composition is natural. The drug stops hemorrhoidal hemorrhage, reduces their size.
- Salicylic ointment is an anti-inflammatory drug with an antiseptic effect of Russian origin. Helps to remove inflammation and pain, promotes cell regeneration.
- Traumeel is a homeopathic preparation of a new generation of German production, which has no analogues. A multicomponent drug is used, in particular, for inflammation of soft tissues. To treat hemorrhoids are not often used, but if you need to quickly heal external nodes, it is quite effective.
- Despite the advice of "connoisseurs" from the Internet ointments Clotrimazole, sulfuric, boric in hemorrhoids are used rarely, with complications of the disease fungal infection.
- But Sinaflane can be used to relieve inflammation with external hemorrhoids. It has an anti-inflammatory effect, relieves itching, swelling, promotes healing of the wounds and fissures of the anal zone.
- Some sources recommend the treatment of hemorrhoids with a drug called Nyz. It is a synthetic non-steroidal drug of a new generation with a pronounced anti-inflammatory effect. Its use, according to experts, for the treatment of hemorrhoids is not justified, since there are directed ointments of Russian and German manufacturers, the effectiveness of which has been proved. For example, Relief is successfully used to treat inflammations in the rectal zone. As part of the drug, shark liver oil, which has a local anti-inflammatory effect. Use for treatment of hemorrhoids Relief allows to remove inflammation in the shortest possible time, to achieve hemostatic and wound healing effect, to stimulate cell regeneration.
Only the specialist can choose the right drug for hemorrhoids, so if you have anal area inflammation, consult a proctologist for adequate therapy.