There are a hundred and one ways to enjoy one’s day and there are also as many which can ruin it. From getting up late, not eating breakfast, not enough sleep, heavy traffic, not meeting deadlines and breaking up with your boyfriend are just some of the ways to ruin your peace of mind. But what’s worse is having to suffer the pains of anal fissure every trip to the bathroom.
Anal fissure contribute to at least 10% of doctor’s visits annually and is not a light matter in the weight of its severe pain. Symptoms of anal fissure are pain during and after bowel movement which could last to several hours in a day, rectal bleeding during bowel movement and irritation in the anus area. Sometimes because of the pain, urination is also affected. It might be difficult to urinate, or frequently urinate and in severe cases unable to urinate. The fissure is caused by the passage of an unusually large and hard stool to the anal canal and anus. It is the tear or crack and sometimes referred to as ulcer that causes the pain and bleeding. How is it treated? Is there alternative medicine to treat anal fissure? Can you use Bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus) to treat anal fissure?
When symptoms are felt, immediately consult with your doctor on the proper diagnosis so as to rule out other possible medical conditions which share common symptoms with anal fissure like hemorrhoids and Crohn’s disease. Your doctor will give you advice on the proper treatment of anal fissure. Ask for available home remedies to relieve pain and ease bowel movement. Anal fissure can be treated and to treat it immediately is a must to prevent it from becoming a chronic problem.
It is common to have heard many herbal medicines to treat digestive problems and one must consult with their doctor if a specific herb or plant could improve or worsen the symptoms. Of particular interest at present is the seaweed Bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus) to treat anal fissure.
Do not confuse Bladderwrack with bladderwort. Other names for the seaweed are black tang, kelp, kelpware, rockweed, sea oak, dyer’s focus, bladeder focus, red focus and rock wrack. It was a source of the much needed iodine as treatment for goiter, and the swelling of one’s thyroid gland attributed to it deficiency. It is found on the coasts of western Baltic Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The seaweed is also abundant also on the chores of the British Isles.
Bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus) to treat anal fissure might not be fully advised but it can serve as aid in digestive disorders, heartburn and constipation, urinary tract disorders. Anal fissures usually start with the instance of constipation or repeated episodes of diarrhea. Perhaps the seaweed would be most effective in the treatment of the digestive problems that could lead to anal fissure. However, remember to call or consult your doctor with the use of bladderwrack as supplement to your treatment or if you are also taking other medications. Particularly important to ask is its safety when used with other herbs and medications that might affect blood clotting effects. It is said that bladderwrack might slow blood clotting and is therefore not advisable as supplement to people with bleeding disorders.
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