According to epidemiological studies, 60% of the adult population suffers from hemorrhoids. Pathology often considered a taboo, which in severe cases lowers considerably the quality of life, creating awkward situations and complicated. The band most affected is that of women aged thirty-five to forty years of age who sometimes have this higher incidence in mechanical or hormonal factors such as pregnancies.
As with many other diseases, a healthy lifestyle is the best therapy, it helps to prevent the appearance and dampen the effects when they are already a fact. What are the rules to follow to avoid the annoying problem?
First, you have to know the disorder. The veins of the anus are equipped with bearings, rich in blood vessels, which maintain continence of feces. When the supporting tissues of the bearings of the lesions are formed undergoes hemorrhoids.
Their gravity is divided into four stages ranging from bleeding (often the cause of anemia), the prolapsed tissue, to the pain, burning, until the risk of thrombosis, abscesses and ulcers.
Proper personal hygiene is the first rule to follow: the use of soap to be acid pH, warm water, not cold water, linen, cotton, not synthetic (which favors the formation of damp and does not allow perspiration), are already of good practices to be implemented.
Besides these, particular attention must be paid to nutrition. Important to make at least three regular meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner), eat fruits and vegetables five times during the day, drink a liter and a half of water, ingest foods rich in fiber and reduce the consumption of red meat and animal fats.
It prohibited the excesses of smoke, alcohol, hot spices, sausage and soft drinks. These measures, which are valid for hemorrhoids, are actually valid for the achievement of a general well-being.
The efficiency of’ gut is another aspect to be kept under control if you want to avoid hemorrhoids and constipation chronic diarrheas are two causes, although for opposite reasons.
The balanced diet, rich in fiber, reduces intestinal transit of stool, the pressure within the colon and rectum on the improvement of intestinal motility with evacuations without effort. Some products such as psyllium or guar gum help to achieve the regularity.
Finally physical activity asks the motion regularly prevents from hemorrhoidal disease compared with a minimum commitment such as walking an hour a day or do aerobic exercises three times a week.
The sport also helps fight obesity, which is one of the cause’s hemorrhoids. Targeted exercises of contraction of the perineum help to strengthen the elasticity of the walls of the anus and improve the situation.