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The hemorrhoid treatment that has been found by several studies to be safe for pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers is a substance called Diosmin. It was first isolated from Schrophularia nodosa in 1925. Since then, other plants have yielded this flavonoid glycoside. From a chemist’s point of view, flavonoids are a large group of plant pigments sharing a similar basic structure: atoms arranged to form a three-ringed molecule.

For more than thirty years now, Diosmin has been known as a vascular-protecting agent and has shown effective anti-inflammatory, free-radical scavenging, and anti-mutagenic properties. It is used to treat chronic venous insufficiency, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids. Chronic venous insufficiency makes its victims experience a heaviness in their legs, a swelling sensation accompanied by pain and cramps.

A varicose vein is a tortuous and distended vein often found in the legs. And hemorrhoid is a varicose-like lump in the passageway of the anus. Diosmin can treat all three conditions. It works by improving the venous tone, by increasing lymphatic drainage, and preventing inflammatory reactions. In various clinical trials involving hundreds of patients with acute and chronic symptoms of hemorrhoids, the flavonoid mixture of 90% diosmin and 10% hesperidin (a substance in which diosmin man be derived) in tablet form, was proven to ease pain and reduce bleeding of hemorrhoids.

Studies that used diosmin in treating hemorrhoids of pregnant women revealed that it does not harm the pregnancy and the development of the fetus. The same studies also found that for breastfeeding mothers with hemorrhoids, the diosmin tablet mixture has no detrimental effects against birth weight, infant growth or infant feeding.

The diosmin does not stay long in the human body. Based on pharmacokinetic investigations, the intestinal flora or plants in the intestines change diosmin into diosmetin, a substance that is easily absorbed and distributed throughout a person’s body. After it has done its anti-inflammatory and therapeutic actions, diosmetin is removed from the body through the urine and the feces.

At present, diosmin is being considered for treating other illnesses such as lymphedema, mastodynia, dermatofibrosclerosis, cancer, colitis, diabetes and other viral infections.

Although diosmin has exhibited no embryo-toxicity, no mutagenic effects, and no adverse effects on the reproductive system, doctors still caution the use of it when a person is taking aspirin and other medications that thin the blood. This is because diosmin can inhibit the aggregation of red blood cells and reduce blood viscosity. In taking diosmin tablets to address your hemorrhoids, consult your doctor first.