The process of hemorrhoid examination includes anal visualization, rectal fingerprinting, and anoscopy.
1. Anal visual diagnosis: commonly used position for the left lateral position, knee-chest position, truncated position. Doctors use both thumbs to separate the buttock groove, observe the anus with or without external hemorrhoids, prolapse, skin erosion, etc. If the thrombosed external hemorrhoids, the dark purple round lumps can be seen.
2. Rectal fingerprinting: internal hemorrhoids are soft and not easy to touch, if there is thrombosis, you can find hard knots, sometimes there is bleeding, tenderness, etc.. Rectal finger test can also find anal papilloma, anal fistula, rectal polyps, rectal cancer and other lesions.
3. anoscopy: more use of knee-chest position or other positions, can be found in the dentate line of internal hemorrhoids or polyps, tumors, and so on.
Hemorrhoid patients can not check by themselves, should be examined and diagnosed by a professional doctor, the patient should be under the guidance of the doctor for formal treatment.