Dr Fergal McNamara

They have a steroid and a local anaesthetic in them.

They help the symptoms to settle.

If they're not working, then you're looking at specialist treatments.

So banding is where you put a rubber band on.

That can be very, very painful.

That's done in a hospital setting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, a band.

So basically you're literally putting a band, if you think about it, around the tip of your finger.

You're putting a tight band around there and it basically causes, like cuts off the blood supply to the hemorrhoid and the whole thing falls off.

After that then you're looking at injection sclerotherapy and things like that where an injection into the base of the hemorrhoid helps it to sclerose and shrink.

And then surgery is the big one.

Surgery is what everyone really wants to avoid.

And it is big surgery.

Like you've all the complications...

Potential complications of any surgery, but you also have the recovery time, you know, which is a huge aspect.

So our electrotherapy, so that doesn't require any anaesthetic local or otherwise.

So we pass a direct current into the base of the hemorrhoids.

That's where the vessels that feed the hemorrhoid are.

It causes them to alkalise and shrink.

They shrivel down and...