The sudden swelling of external hemorrhoids overnight may be caused by inflammation of external hemorrhoids, which can be handled by general treatment, medication or surgery.
1. General treatment: patients should avoid eating spicy and stimulating foods in their daily diet, pay attention to local cleanliness and dryness after defecation, do not sit or stand for a long time, and prevent constipation and diarrhea.
2. medication: if there is inflammatory external hemorrhoids or thrombosed external hemorrhoids, you can use hemorrhoid ointment under the guidance of a doctor, such as Ma Yinglong or anus tylenol ointment and other medications, which have the effect of reducing swelling and pain, astringent. In addition for acute external hemorrhoids patients, can be under the guidance of the doctor for local fumigation, can reduce inflammation and swelling pain.
3. Surgical treatment: patients with severe or recurring conditions can seek timely surgical treatment, simple excision method, venous plexus stripping method, thrombosed hemorrhoid stripping surgery is currently more commonly used treatment methods.
Patients can use warm water sitz bath after bowel movement, before going to bed, or 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution sitz bath, which can help eliminate the swelling of external hemorrhoids. Pay attention to follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, any discomfort symptoms, to immediately seek medical treatment for diagnosis, so as to avoid delaying the condition.