Knowledge Base: Published Data

eXroid offers an innovative direct current electrotherapy treatment for haemorrhoids, providing patients in the UK, Europe, USA and Asia Pacific including Australia and New Zealand with an effective, minimally invasive treatment option.

We are proud to have designed, developed and manufactured our device in the UK. We have dedicated significant time to researching haemorrhoidal disease and understanding the treatments available, enabling us to develop a treatment method focused on both clinical effectiveness and patient experience.

The eXroid® system is highly specialised and designed with the patient in mind, offering clinicians a carefully developed treatment approach that can provide an additional option for the management of haemorrhoids.

Understanding the disease and symptoms

This year we commissioned some much-needed research into haemorrhoid sufferers. This research is pivotal to discern sufferers’ understanding of the disease, different Haemorrhoid treatments available and the key barriers that deter sufferers from seeking treatment.

Here are the key findings we found around sufferers’ understanding of the disease and how the disease impacts them:

Straining, constipation, and diet were believed to be the top causes of haemorrhoids when asked what they believed causes haemorrhoids.

• 54% believe ‘Straining when ’opening their bowels caused their piles.
• 42% believe ’Constipation’ caused their piles (60% of under 30s believe this to be true).
• 38% believe their piles are caused by ‘Poor diet / not eating enough fibre’.

Our research confirmed that there is a wide array of symptoms that haemorrhoid sufferers can experience, making the disease hard to diagnose. On average, sufferers experience 4.9 symptoms and are likely to have experienced multiple bouts in the last year, which are known as flare-ups.

• 67% of sufferers experience an itchy bottom – this increases to 70% for people age 40-60.
• 63% can feel or see a lump near the anus – this increases to 67% for women.
• 48% have had 4 or more flare ups in the last year.

Our investigation also underlined that there is a very limited understanding of haemorrhoids, even amongst sufferers – half did not know what their type or grade of piles actually were.

• 15% of sufferers have had their piles diagnosed but don’t know whether they are internal, external or thrombosed…whilst 38% have not had their piles diagnosed at all!
• 24% of sufferers are aware of grades but don’t know which grade theirs is
• 44% aren’t aware of grades at all – this increases to 57% for over 60s