Bleeding From Bottom

• June 29, 2021November 25, 2025
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• Itchy butt/ hanging skin tag
• Piles, also known as haemorrhoids, are swellings containing enlarged blood vessels in rectum and anus.
• In pregnancy, piles can occur because hormones make your veins relax and pressure from gravid uterus.
• Itching, aching, soreness or swelling around your anus
• Pain when passing a stool and a mucus discharge
• A lump hanging outside the anus
• Bleeding after passing a stool – bright red

Constipation

• Constipation can cause piles.
• Try to keep your stools soft and regular by eating high fibre food.
• Eat wholemeal bread, Chapati with bran or Dalia or oats instead of baked bread, biscuits, poha, vermicelli, pasta, etc.
• Eat lots of fruit.
• Eat vegetables in plenty.
• Drink enough water-milk shakes, buttermilk, soups, coconut water, lemon in warm water.

Follow the rules

• Avoid standing for long periods.
• Do regular exercise to improve circulation.
• Use a cloth wrung out in iced water to ease the pain – hold it gently against the piles.
• Avoid straining to pass stool, use fibre laxative instead.
• After passing a stool, clean your anus with water (soft jet), apply ice, dry it, apply lubricant.
• Don’t rub the area.
• Take sitz bath (in a tub add antiseptic solution in warm water; sit for 5-15 minutes to soak the area) twice a day.
• Add fibre laxative, daily, twice.
• Eat porridge in hot milk with lots of fruits in the evening.
• Request your doctor a soothing cream or gel for anal application.
• Enjoy hearty bowel emptying.