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Sitting on toilets longer than 10m risks hemorrhoids

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Nov 13, 2024
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Spend no more than 10 minutes sitting on a toilet, say doctors Farah Monzur, director of Long Island's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Stony Brook Medicine and Lai Xue, a colorectal surgeon out of Dallas. One's buttocks are compressed by the seat's descending oval shape, "keeping the rectum in a lower position" compa…

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