New Mexican sopapillas are made from tortilla-like dough. The dough is fried until it is puffy and a small air pocket appears within the pastry. In New Mexico, sweet sopapillas are often covered in honey or some kind of syrup and powdered sugar. Stuffed sopapillas are also popular in New Mexico.
You can often relieve the mild pain, swelling and inflammation of hemorrhoids with home treatments. Often these are the only treatments needed. 1  Use topical treatments. 2  Apply an over-the-counter hemorrhoid cream or suppository containing hydrocortisone, or use pads containing witch hazel or a numbing agent.
What are hemorrhoids? Hemorrhoids are normal cushions of tissue containing blood vessels in the lower rectum and around the anus. They are a normal part of the ability to control defecation which helps prevent any leakage of feces. Hemorrhoids affect more than half of the population at some point in their lives.