What can a doctor do for hemorrhoids?

In some cases, hemorrhoids can be serious enough to require a doctor's intervention. Here are hemorrhoid symptoms and what you can do about them. read more

Increasing fiber and fluid intake can help prevent hemorrhoids. Minor hemorrhoids may be treated with lubrication and use of stool softeners. Doctors may use an instrument to put rubber bands around them to make them clot or fall off, inject them with a clotting agent, use infrared light to heat clot, or surgery for removal. read more

These treatments can be done in your doctor's office or other outpatient setting and do not usually require anesthesia. Rubber band ligation. Your doctor places one or two tiny rubber bands around the base of an internal hemorrhoid to cut off its circulation. The hemorrhoid withers and falls off within a week. read more