Neighbor News
4 Ways to Ease Hemorrhoids at Home
In addition to straining when you move your bowels, hemorrhoid flares can be triggered by several factors you can control

Hemorrhoids are the kind of condition that no wants to admit having and everyone wishes could just disappear. But are there ways to treat hemorrhoids at home that can ease your symptoms and make you almost forget they’re there?
When the normal blood cushions lining the anal canal swell, either because you’re constipated or strain to move your bowels, they become symptomatic hemorrhoids, according to Michael Hernon, MD, a colorectal surgeon with the Hartford HealthCare Digestive Health Institute seeing patients in Hartford, Bloomfield and Enfield.
Here’s what else he had to say.