Using your phone on toilet may give you hemorrhoids: study
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Fletcher: Your honor, would the court be willing to grant me a short bathroom break?
Judge: Can't it wait?
Fletcher: Yes it can. But I've heard that if you hold it you could damage the prostate gland, making it very difficult to get an erection, or even become aroused!
Judge: Is that true?
Fletcher: It has to be!
Judge: In that case I'd better take a quick break myself.
The only downside is that you'll miss it whenever nature calls outside the home.
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well, that and taking it up to the cashier. :)
I've had constipation maybe twice in my life.
One already exists. Sitting vs hovering is already known to cause hemorrhoids. Using your phone probably increases sitting time.
"COVID-19 Pandemic Linked to Surge in Digestive Disorders"
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/covid-19-pandemic-link...
not all antacids are the same, so I reach for your "etc" instead of the Tum. the liquid antacids that contain an aluminum compound active ingredient (in the US, Mylanta and Maalox and buy the store brand anyway, always liquid tho) provide a pH buffer, which is to say they "calibrate" their effect to the scale of the problem at the moment and the effect lasts longer than simply neutralizing acid with a base. I find this is the superior middle way.
PPIs? I really liked zantac's "ranitidine" ingredient which got banned for some infinitesimal risk of cancer. great product. I do not like the way these others leave my tummy feeling (or... is that the cancer? :)
>Why do they link it to stress and not to the virus?
how about, risks from the vaccines were ignored as possible confounding factors and presto, a mystery condition emerges which can only be attributed to the time period
There is a lot of research on this... If you do sit, it helps to bring your knees up closer to your chest. You can buy devices to help do this... The Squatty Potty for example. Basically, things are better aligned (for sitters) when your knees or hips are bent deeply.
Other research shows the Thinker Position Statue is as ideal as the squat for pooping ease (if you are a sitter).
To be fair to him, at least he removed his diapers first. He was on the way to proper potty procedures!
A better source for the info
Way before the smartphone (we're talking 80s and 90s), if I would go to the bathroom with a book my parents would warn me (perhaps old wives tale, perhaps relatedly bad studies such as this?) that sitting on the toilet too long could give me hemorrhoids.
Another trash conclusion from a trash study.
The position of sitting in the toilet without support for the pelvic floor adds extra pressure to the related vein and vascularity, creating hemorrhoids.
This was discussed in r/science yesterday.
The act of reading the cellphone while sitting on the toilet causing you to lose track of time does.
We westerners are disgusting barbarians, and Hemorrhoids are usually evidence of that. Most Hemorrhoids that westerners have are due to either not cleaning their butts properly, or from straining too much due usually to bad diets (bidets also help eliminate this as water is a decent lubricant)
Yes to the "squatting is better" crowd but you notice that SK/Japan doesn't need or have squatting toilets en mass.
When the Japanese or South Koreans look at us with disdain because we literally walk around with shit in our pants 24/7, I don't blame them! They are right and we have a LOT to learn as westerners about being actually clean.
At least Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil, Italy and France have bidets, the US/Canada are world champions in wiping with paper.
I live in the US now, I got a toilet hose bidet in amazon for less like 30 bucks, super easy to install, always clean.
It will lead to more splashing, so use the flush a lot more. It can also help to take a shower thereafter to keep the legs clean.
A side benefit is that no one will want to remain in this position any longer than necessary since it tires the feet, so you don't waste much more time than you need.
The risk of falling is highest when getting off the seat, at which time it helps to have a support to hold.
The correct solution would of course be to remove this toilet altogether, replacing it with a squat toilet.
The noted actions are not something that anyone will typically do until they feel they're out of options, but then it's a potential option.