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Here are a few home remedies and home preventatives for hemorrhoids.

The most important way to prevent hemorrhoids is to loosen up hard stools and stop grunting and groaning your way through each struggling bowel movement. This struggle and strain swells and engorges the rectal veins which causes hemorrhoids to form. The home remedy for this hard stool issue and thus a hemorrhoid preventative is plenty of fluid and plenty of fiber. An additional help is to apply petroleum jelly to a cotton swab and insert it half an inch into the rectum before a bowel movement. This home remedy will help you void easily and prevent hemorrhoids.

Another home remedy for hemorrhoid problems is the use of gentle, white, toilet paper that has no perfume, to dampen it under the water faucet before each wipe and to wipe gently rather than roughly. If someone is really uncomfortable, they can substitute toilet paper with facial tissues to which moisture cream has been applied.

It's very important that someone suffering from hemorrhoids not scratch the affected area, no matter how much it itches. This can damage the walls of the veins and these veins are very delicate. This home remedy will prevent the hemorrhoids from getting worse.

Strenuous manual labor and heavy lifting can exacerbate or cause hemorrhoids. If someone is prone to hemorrhoids one home remedy is to get others to move that new living room suite.

One home remedy for hemorrhoids that has been around for decades - and is still recommended by medical care professionals - is a sitz bath. This one's a cinch to accomplish too. The person suffering from hemorrhoids only needs warm water for this home remedy. He or she simply fills the tub with 3-4 inches of warm water, gets in and sits with her or his knees up. Not only does the warm water help take away the hemorrhoid pain but it also increases the flow of blood to the affected anal area. This may very well help shrink the swollen anal veins.

Another home remedy for hemorrhoids that is a great help for external hemorrhoids, especially those that are bleeding, is the use of witch hazel. The witch hazel should be applied with a cotton ball to the rectum. What witch hazel does is make the blood vessels contract and shrink. If the witch hazel bottle is allowed to cool for a while in a bucket of ice it will have the dual affect of relieving the pain as it contracts the blood vessels.

Common causes or exacerbation of hemorrhoids that have simple home remedies are overweight , which puts more pressure on the rectum; too much consumption of salt, which causes fluid retention and bulging anal veins; and excess coffee, beer, cola and strong spices. The latter don't cause hemorrhoids but they exacerbate the itching as the foods go through the bowels.

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