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New Treatment of Piles

WHEN located outside the anal opening, its swelling can result to skin irritation that can be painful, and prone to ruptures.

When the swelling is located inside, pain is seldom experienced. But when it grows disproportionately large it goes out of the rectum, oftentimes painfully, and in some cases accompanied with bleeding. Just what are we talking about? Most of us call this condition as hemorrhoids (Visayan, almoranas). Actually, hemorroids are also called piles, wrote S. Lorenzo-Rivero in the August 2009 American Journal of Surgery.

Hemorrhoids are swollen blood vessels in the lower rectum. Its most common signs and symptoms are itching, anal masses, rectal pain, or rectal bleeding. Internal piles become suspect when bright red blood can be found covering the stool, in toilet paper, or in the toilet bowl itself.

The golden standard in treating severe piles is... [Read more]


This article appeared in Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on 23 February 2011. 
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  1. AnonymousMarch 9, 2011 at 9:19 AM

    i am 67 years old and have 4 grown up kids but ever sincetime immemorial i have been having hemorrhoids as the doctor called it ectopic hemorrhoids..it had gotten so bad that everytime i sit down for sometime or just exert any effort at all my hemorrhoids would bleed alot like the whole toilet bowl is full of it.....i got quite scared of it but you know what 5 months ago i was introduced to this product of market america and now market philippines which is called isotonix opc-3 and lo and behold slowly the hemorrhoids has gone down so much that i dont even feel anything anymore and no more bleeding.i just wanted to share this because i know that a lot of people are suffering because of this and they do not even want to discuss it kay nakakahiya
    .if anybody is interested to know more about it just e mail me monique_unique_2003@yahoo.com

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  2. Zosimo LiteratusMarch 9, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    hi monique,

    thanks for dropping by.

    it is interesting to know that. so how does isotonix opc-3 works to "cure" piles? you can discuss that here for the benefit of our readers.

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