Following the full-fledged summer weather, the rainy season, when it rains heavily for a while, is approaching. As the hot and humid midsummer climate that you can already feel is coming, people’s clothes are getting lighter and more attention is being paid to body management. It is better to do it while paying attention to prevention.
The basic diet we usually know is to eat a diet consisting of foods that are not high in calories and exercise regularly. This does not bring about a short-term weight loss effect, but if practiced repeatedly for a long period of time, it can show a fairly large effect in losing weight and being reborn as a healthy body.
However, as most modern people do, there are more cases of choosing a diet method that can bring about weight loss in a short period of time rather than following the standard of diet. Intake of only one type of food or limiting the amount of food intake is a typical example. If you practice such an excessive diet, the stool cannot be made or becomes too hard, resulting in constipation, which can fatally affect the health of the anus, which can lead to ‘hemorrhoids’. can
Hemorrhoids is a typical anal disease that appears in modern people, and although hemorrhoids, fistulas, and dentition are all encompassing, it usually means hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids is a condition in which the blood vessels around the anus and rectum droop along with the mucous membrane as they expand due to poor blood circulation. It is largely divided into internal hemorrhoids and external hemorrhoids, and it is accompanied by various symptoms such as bleeding, a feeling of residual stool, itching, and prolapse.
If there is a patient with hemorrhoids in the family, if you have bad bowel habits and eating habits, if you have weakened anal muscles due to overwork or physical fatigue, if there are any diseases or physical changes such as liver cirrhosis and intra-abdominal tumors, decreased blood circulation, pregnancy, etc. Hemorrhoids that can be caused by constipation can also be the main culprit.
Constipation, which comes while restricting the amount of food or excessive diet, if you do not respond positively at the beginning, becomes more and more severe and makes you have hard stools. At this time, you have no choice but to exert excessive force on your stomach to defecate, which can cause pain and bleeding as the anus protrude or the anus is torn. If you repeatedly use laxatives and enemas to solve severe constipation, you need to be careful because the more frequent you use them, the lower your bowel motility can make it difficult to pass stools on your own.
For hemorrhoids, prompt and accurate diagnosis and treatment should be applied early. Therefore, if you feel suspicious symptoms in the anus, you should seek medical attention without delay, and there is a possibility of recurrence even after receiving fundamental treatment, so you should manage your lifestyle and eating habits well. In addition, it is good to try to prevent hemorrhoids so as not to strain the anus by having a proper bowel habit.
(Writing: Jinseok Yoon, Director of Daehang Ha Orthopedic Surgery)