Myths about piles

Posts : 1 Join date : 2011-02-02

People,
even educated ones, are embarrassed to talk about some diseases that
affect our private body parts and piles or haemorrhoids is one among
them. But there is nothing embarrassing about the disease which is
very common in adults in India.

Piles is actually the swelling
and bleeding of the vascular cushions within the anus and lower
rectum of the human body and there are various treatments available
for the disease among which piles
ayurvedic treatmentseems to be very effective.

There are many myths
associated with the disease and one of them is that only the elderly
will be affected by piles. But there are many young people in the
country affected by the disease, thus proving the argument invalid.
(Yet, it is true that the older you become, the more you will be
vulnerable to the disease.)

Another myth about the disease
is that it will always bleed, which is again not true. Though the
symptom of bleeding can be seen in many, it cannot be generalised.
Some patients have never experienced such a symptom; all they felt
was the presence of small masses on the anal canal.

Experts also disagree with the
common beliefs such as sitting on a dirty toilet seat, or cold floor
will increase the risk of getting piles.