Hemorrhoids / Hemroids Cream

The BEST hemroids cream

Walk into any pharmacy, and you're sure to see a bewildering array of hemroids creams, ointments and salves for sale.

Out of all that massive array of hemroids creams that are on the market, how on earth is anyone supposed to navigate through all of them to find the very best hemroids cream?

It is easy to pick up a hemroids cream, waste money, and spend yet another sleepless and joyless night in pain, declaring that brand of hemroids cream to be a total failure, which they should be ashamed to sell.

It is, however, not the fault of the hemroids cream!

The trick to finding the best hemroids cream is to match YOUR hemroids symptoms, to the OTC - over the counter - hemroids cream that offers relief for THOSE symptoms. You see, symptoms vary a lot with hemroids and it is quite pointless to buy a hemroids cream designed for one set of symptoms, if you have different symptoms. You have to match the hemroids cream to your symptoms.

To reiterate, that hemroids cream wont likely help you much, if your hemroid symptoms are different.

Finding the best hemroids cream can be embarrassing for some people - dealing with the embarrassment

Hemroids creams are one of the most shop lifted products from a pharmacy - it's so embarrassing for many hemroid sufferers to deal with in any way public - BUT your hemroids problem is no big deal for the staff, as they sell hemroids creams by the crate - there are just so many people buying OTC hemroids creams every day.

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You see, most people have or will have hemroids during their life. Symptom relief is the first thing people go for after diagnosis with their doctor - as hemroids can be absolutely agonizing, tormenting, and unrelenting in the pain and discomfort they cause.

So, please don't think you just walk into a pharmacy, pick up a tube or jar of hemorrhoids cream, whack it under your coat and walk out the shop, rather than face the checkout girl with it. You will actually have to stand there reading it's ingredients and so on, at least until you work out which hemorrhoids cream they stock that will work on your hemroids.

Also, if you are allergic to the carrier base in the hemroids cream you choose, then that hemroids cream could make things worse, so you definitely have to check the suitability of the hemroids cream for you.

If that idea is too much to tolerate, you can get round this by you or your spouse phoning with the symptoms, and ask anonymously over the phone which hemroids cream they sell that is best for those symptoms - be sure to ask about the carrier base / ingredients if you think allergy may be a problem. You could even ask where in the shop it is located, or for them to put a tube or jar behind the counter till you come in to collect it.

On a side note, most pharmaceutical companies spell hemroids according to medical jargon, which is "hemorrhoids". So you'll actually be looking for "hemorrhoids cream", if you go visit a pharmacy.

Hemroids creams are perfect for providing symptom relief for most people, and it's easy. Just place some of the hemroid cream on your finger, then put it onto the hemroid and around the anus.

OTC hemroids creams are for the symptom relief of hemroids, not for cure.

While no OTC hemroid cream is a cure for hemroids, there are several OTC hemroids creams on the market that can make symptoms bearable while you take the measures that will cure them.

Bear in mind, most people don't actually try to really cure hemroids, they just buy the hemroids cream and keep getting the symptom relief. What they don't realize, is that hemroids tend to get worse with time, not better. So masking the symptoms of hemroids with hemroids creams is not a good long term solution, as you'll possibly end up seeing the doctor and being told you need an operation.

We have also reviewed a variety of online hemorrhoids treatments and creams, such as the Heal Hemorrhoids solution and Venapro's convenient tablets. Both are fantastic for symptom relief and healing of hemroids, and neither require you to plough through the ingredient lists to find the right one, unless you are looking for allergy. They tend to be more like a shotgun, in that these hemroid medicines cover as many hemroid symptoms as they can.

Anyway, here's a breakdown of what to look for in hemroids creams, to help you choose the best hemroid cream according to your symptoms:

The importance of the binder or base in a hemroids cream

The most common ingredient in any hemroids cream is some sort of binder, the most common of which are such things as petroleum jelly, glycerin, cocoa butter.

Other potential binders in hemroids cream include lanolin, mineral oil, shark liver oil, and aluminum hydroxide gel.

The purpose of the binder is twofold, first to provide a medium in which to suspend the active ingredients and the second is to provide some moisturizing and lubricating effect on the area in question.

Any skin that is too dry will itch like mad, and is more prone to inflammation, so keeping the hemroid and surrounding area well moisturized is very helpful in a hemroids cream.

In addition, friction also leads to inflammation, so lubrication does become important.

If you have significant amounts of skin irritation, you may find the shark liver oil or the cocoa butter to be the most effective base in a hemroids cream.

The importance of testing the hemroids cream on a not as sensitive area of your body first

Remember to test a not-as-sensitive area of your skin for allergic reactions before using any hemroids cream you're not familiar with, and avoid any you've had a problem with in the past.

For instance, lanolin is a wool product. Therefore, don't use it if you are even mildly allergic to wool.

If you have an allergy to seafood, stay away from shark liver oil, and so on.

Astringent hemroids cream

Many hemroid creams include an astringent medication such as calamine,witch hazel extract, aloe vera gel or zinc oxide.

Astringents relieve the itching, irritation and burning of hemroids by drying out and shrinking the skin cells of the area. This both cools the area and gets blood circulating better.

Astringents of some kind are one of the most common and most commonly helpful medications to find in a hemroid cream, and many of them are frequently found in other topical creams for irritated areas.

Calamine lotion is famous for treating poison ivy, and zinc oxide is a frequently included medication in diaper rash ointment. Witch hazel and aloe vera gel are more commonly used in facial applications, but are incredibly soothing to an irritated hemroid.

Anesthetic hemroids cream

The next useful ingredient is usually a quick-acting local anesthetic.

An anesthetic is a medication that blocks pain receptors, so blessed numbness spreads quickly.

Anesthetics for external use include lidocaine, benzocaine, pramoxine, benzyl alcohol, dibucaine, dyclonine and tetracaine.

You may recognize some of these as sharing a suffix with novocaine, and the immediate effect is about the same, although without the scary needle from the dentist involved.

The purpose of all of these medications is to get the pain nerves in the area to quit talking to the brain for a little while.

You already know it hurts, you don't need the constant reminder and these medications make it stop fast.

It's important that other medications are included as well, however, because local anesthetics usually wear off fairly quickly.

Their purpose is to give enough hemroid relief for the other ingredients to start working.

Vasoconstrictor hemroids cream

Next on the list of potential additions is a vasoconstrictor, which reduces blood flow to the area and may quiet an inflamed, itching hemroid right down.

Commonly used vasoconstrictors include phenylephrine, ephedrine, and epinephrine.

Keep in mind that these cannot be taken with certain medications, and that some people are sensitive to them.

Check with your regular pharmacist to make sure that no bad drug interactions will happen, and discontinue use immediately if you have any bad side effects whatsoever.

However, for the majority of the population who can use vasoconstrictors, they can be a wonderful thing to use on hemroids indeed.

Steroidal hemroids cream

Another commonly found ingredient is a steroidal anti-inflammatory medication, such as hydrocortisone.

This is one of the most powerful anti-inflammatory medications available in over-the-counter medications, but it should not be used for long periods of time.

Over time, hydrocortisone, or any steroidal medication, can cause the tissue of the anal area to grow thinner, which will decrease the muscular support of hemorrhoidal cushions and can wind up making the problem worse.

Therefore, creams with hydrocortisone in them should be used only for relief of hemroid crises, and not as a chronic hemroids medication.

Analgesic and antipruritic hemroids cream

Other ingredients fall into the category of analgesics and antipruritics, or in plain English, painkillers and anti-itch medications.

This category can include such unusual medications as camphor, juniper tar, or menthol.

Any of these will cause a tingling cool/warm feeling similar to muscle cramp relief creams.

At the specific dosage calibrated for hemroid creams, this sensation can be quite comforting and significantly distract from or eliminate itching and burning symptoms.

Be warned, never try to use a cream designated for a different part of the body on a hemroid. The skin around the anus absorbs medication at a much faster rate than the skin on your leg, and you'll get too much medication too quickly.

How to work out what's in the hemroids creams

Which active ingredients are included in any given hemroid ointment or cream can easily be determined by looking on the drug information panel, which is usually on the back or sides of any medication packaging. The binder that was used to form the salve can either be found in the active ingredients or as the first listed inactive ingredient.

Hemroid cream is only good for external hemroids

Internal hemroids creams have not been approved by the FDA for use in humans.

Remember that all hemroid creams on the market today are only rated for external use and are not to be put inside the body.  Hemroid creams are only considered safe for external hemroids - not prolapsed nor internal hemroids.

Choosing the best cream for hemroids

The best hemroids cream is the one that relieves your specific symptoms.  Using this guide that we have provided, you should be able to pick out the best cream for hemroids for you personally, that has the exact right ingredients for your symptoms, and enjoy the relief!

Research and main write by Loni L. Ice, editing and additional writing by D. S. Urquhart.

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