While going to the bathroom is as normal as it gets, your trip to the bathroom may end up giving you a nasty surprise, especially if there is blood in your stool. While this is usually an indicator of an external issue such as a fissure or hemorrhoids, it could also be an underlying sign…
When certain veins in your intestines get swollen, they can start to swell into big lumps that we call hemorrhoids. Depending on the location of the hemorrhoid, it may be difficult to discover. Patients who visit our gastroenterologist in Los Angeles often ask, “Should hemorrhoids be painful?” and the answer largely depends on the nature…
Three-fourths of all adults will at some point deal with hemorrhoids. With statistics like that, you have a good chance of running across these in your life. But do you really know what hemorrhoids are, and how to tell if you have them? It is lucky that for 75% of the population they are not…