Hemorrhoids are an unsightly condition often accompanied by debilitating pain and if you have ever had a hemorrhoid, the pain is usually severe enough that you will miss work if you do not have the hemorrhoid removed. If you have never had a hemorrhoid, then you should count yourself among the lucky.

So just what is a hemorrhoid? A hemorrhoid is the engorgement of blood vessels around the anus resulting in the swelling of tissue full of blood. External hemorrhoids, in particular, appear outside of the anus and are quite visible. External hemorrhoids thrombosed, as such, is when that pool of blood is allowed to clot.

There are many causes for external hemorrhoids thrombosed. These causes include sitting for long periods of time, straining during a bowel movement due to constipation, hypertension, obesity, and complications from pregnancy.

As mentioned before, external hemorrhoids thombosed can be painful to the point of being debilitating thus affecting your work and your normal life functions. As such, if you incur an external hemorrhoid thrombosed, it is advised that you seek medical treatment as quickly as possible.

There are several medical treatments for external hemorrhoids thrombosed available. Non surgical treatments include warm baths and medicinal creams to ease the pain and weaken the tissue surrounding the external hemorrhoid thrombosed. Surgical treatments can include rubber band ligation (using a rubber band to cut blood flow off from the hemorrhoid) and sclerotherapy (using a blood vessel hardening agent to cause the blood vessels in the hemorrhoid to collapse).

There are a wide range of treatment options available and if you have external hemorrhoids thrombosed, you should consult your doctor to determine which treatment option is right for you.

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