Hemorrhoids: Fatal consequences

Hemorrhoids are definitely very uncomfortable.

But fatal? That’s something else.

A new study presented at the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting reveals just how life-threatening hemorrhoids are, especially if you don’t take action right now to manage them naturally.

Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco collected data from Medicare claims and the Minimum Data Set for Nursing Home Residents. The latter is a collection of medical records for all residents of Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes.

They found the records of 916 nursing home residents and matched each of them with three elderly people outside nursing homes who were similar to them in age, race, sex, and existing health conditions.

All of these people were over age 65 and had undergone surgery to remove hemorrhoids between 2014 and 2016.

According to the results, the nursing home residents were more likely than community-dwelling seniors to suffer from complications in the first 30 days: 53% versus 33%.

Even worse, while 16% of the community-dwelling seniors died within the first year after surgery—which is bad enough—a shocking 25% of the nursing home residents died within the first year after surgery.

Another finding obtained from a subset of nursing home residents was that 32% of them experienced a worsening of their fecal continence levels after surgery.

These are appalling statistics. Hemorrhoid removal, also called hemorrhoidectomy, is not a complicated surgery, and was not considered life-threatening until now.

This is why it is so important to deal with your hemorrhoids now, before they are so large that surgery is the only remaining option.

Fortunately, it’s quite easy to get rid of hemorrhoids of all sizes using the simple lifestyle changes explained here (and it’s not just fiber)…