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What foods are good for patients with hemorrhoids?

Nov 28, 2024 Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Li Jingxiang
Introduction
Foods suitable for patients with hemorrhoids include celery, bananas, sweet potatoes, spinach, and buckwheat. Celery is rich in dietary fiber, which can increase stool bulk, promote intestinal motility, shorten the retention time of feces in the intestine, reduce constipation, and thereby alleviate discomfort symptoms in patients with hemorrhoids, such as rectal bleeding, pain, and a feeling of fullness.

Generally speaking, hemorrhoids refer to piles. Foods suitable for consumption when suffering from hemorrhoids include celery, bananas, sweet potatoes, spinach, and buckwheat. If discomfort occurs, timely medical consultation is recommended. Detailed explanations are as follows:

1. Celery

Celery is rich in dietary fiber, which increases stool volume, promotes intestinal peristalsis, shortens the time stool remains in the intestine, reduces constipation, and thereby alleviates uncomfortable symptoms such as bleeding, pain, and a feeling of heaviness.

2. Banana

Bananas contain abundant potassium and pectin. Potassium helps maintain normal muscle contraction and relaxation, exerting a regulatory effect on the muscles around the anus. Pectin promotes intestinal peristalsis and has a lubricating effect on the intestines, helping to avoid hemorrhoid rupture and bleeding or prolapse caused by straining during bowel movements.

3. Sweet Potato

Sweet potatoes contain large amounts of dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals, which stimulate intestinal peristalsis and accelerate the elimination of feces, thus reducing the discomfort caused by constipation. Nutrients such as beta-carotene in sweet potatoes also enhance the resistance of the intestinal mucosa, aid in the healing of hemorrhoidal wounds, and reduce recurrence.

4. Spinach

Spinach is rich in iron, dietary fiber, and vitamins. Iron helps prevent and improve iron-deficiency anemia that may result from chronic blood loss due to hemorrhoids. It promotes hemoglobin synthesis, maintains normal hematopoietic function in the body, helps patients replenish nutrients lost through bleeding, and supports recovery.

5. Buckwheat

Buckwheat contains abundant dietary fiber and rutin. Dietary fiber promotes bowel movements, while rutin improves microcirculation, helping to reduce local congestion and swelling in hemorrhoids, thereby relieving pain and swelling.

In daily life, it is important to avoid sitting or standing for prolonged periods and to get up and move around regularly. Maintain cleanliness around the anal area and wash with warm water after each bowel movement.

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