Treating Piles with Laser

Treating piles with Laser

What is Piles

• • Piles, also known as haemorrhoids, are swollen veins and muscle around your anus or in your anal canal.
• • Your anal canal is a short, muscular tube with blood vessels that connects your rectum (back passage) with your anus. Piles can develop when this tissue becomes swollen, possibly as a result of straining on the toilet. Sometimes, piles can be painful and bleed if they become damaged

Symptoms

• • Bleeding when you have a bowel movement – you may see blood on toilet paper or drips in the toilet or on your farces
• • Lump in or around your anus
• • Slimy discharge of mucus from your anus, or leaking farces
• • Feeling that your bowels haven’t emptied completely
• • Itchy or sore skin around your anus
• • Pain and discomfort after a bowel movement (if you have external piles)

Treatment of Piles

• • By making diet and lifestyle changes, you can often help to relieve your symptoms. For example, eating a high-fibre diet will make your stools softer and easier to pass. This is important for reducing the pressure on the veins in your anus caused by straining when you have a bowel movement.
• • Medicines
• • A range of medicines can help to relieve the symptoms of piles.


• • If you’re passing hard faeces, a fibre supplement such as husk or mild laxative will soften your faeces.


• • Soothing creams, ointments and suppositories may ease any pain and itchiness. There are many different products available over the counter. Some also contain a local anaesthetic

NON Surgical Treatment

Laser therapy does not require general anaesthesia and allows the patient to get back to normal in Laser is found more beneficial for patients having severe anal spasm (contraction of the anus), external thrombosis, fissure, sentinel tags, external haemorrhoids or internal haemorrhoids and Treatment of haemorrhoid by laser, which is done by skilled surgeons, has several advantages like less operation time, less pain, quick healing, no stricture and minimal recurrence after operation.

Treating piles with laser is an outpatient procedure. The patient is given enough intravenous (IV) sedation so that they are comfortably asleep and feel no pain. With the patient lying on their back and breathing easily under IV sedation, the anal area is injected with long acting local anesthesia so that when they awaken, they feel no pain. The larger hemorrhoids are removed using the laser in cutting mode. The laser seals as it cuts, so stitches are rarely used. Because the laser beam is so small, there is an excellent view of the hemorrhoid, and as a result of this there is no risk of damaging the muscles that control the bowel movements.

After lasering the larger hemorrhoids, smaller hemorrhoids are now vaporized, with the laser in the vaporizing mode. This produces a small, painless scar, which heals quickly. If we vaporize a larger internal hemorrhoid we might band it first to control possible bleeding.

Sometimes the internal and external hemorrhoids are separated by a bridge of anal skin. In this case, we will vaporize the internal hemorrhoid with the wide angle laser beam and excise the external hemorrhoid with the cutting beam. This gives us a lot of flexibility, which is not available with the surgical excision approach. Similar approach is adapted for the treatment of anal fissures and fistula.

What is Piles

• • Piles, also known as haemorrhoids, are swollen veins and muscle around your anus or in your anal canal.
• • Your anal canal is a short, muscular tube with blood vessels that connects your rectum (back passage) with your anus. Piles can develop when this tissue becomes swollen, possibly as a result of straining on the toilet. Sometimes, piles can be painful and bleed if they become damaged

Symptoms

• • Bleeding when you have a bowel movement – you may see blood on toilet paper or drips in the toilet or on your farces
• • Lump in or around your anus
• • Slimy discharge of mucus from your anus, or leaking farces
• • Feeling that your bowels haven’t emptied completely


• • Itchy or sore skin around your anus
• • Pain and discomfort after a bowel movement (if you have external piles)

Advantages of Laser

• • When comparing laser removal to traditional surgical excision of hemorrhoids
• • Treatment of Piles with laser is a post operatively painless procedure that allows the patients to return to work in few days following the procedure.
• • Laser treatment is more effective Less tissue damage
• • Has the ability to remove more of the
• • Hemorrhoids
• • Due to decreased tissue damage there is less pain
• • Speedier recovery
• • Fewer complications