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Role of nutrition in the development of hemorrhoids
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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
All countries of the world are rich in an abundance of taste preferences and a variety of dishes. It can be noted that almost every nation uses a lot of seasonings, spices, and herbs in food. The most common additives are spices, due to which gastric juices are actively secreted, appetite is awakened and saliva is secreted. What is the role of nutrition in the development of hemorrhoids?
Nutrition. Causes of hemorrhoids
The habit of constantly using spices in your daily diet has created the impression that food has become gray and absolutely tasteless without seasonings. Frequent use of seasonings and flavorings irritates the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, while increasing the blood flow to its walls.
It is wonderful and incredibly tasty when food is aromatic and attractive, but if you often season your food with pepper, spices, seasonings, then the blood flow to the mucous membrane will significantly exceed the norm. As a result, doctors note that various congestion phenomena are formed in the vessels of the submucous layer. Both doctors and patients, those who suffer from hemorrhoids, do not always take into account that when eating too spicy food and when following an improper diet, the disease known to us - hemorrhoids - is aggravated.
[ The habit of eating unhealthily
The habit of eating incorrectly directly affects the course or development of the disease. If you often eat dry food, monotonously and in a hurry, then your digestive system is overloaded and functions poorly, resulting in difficulties with digestion and inflammatory processes, in particular, hemorrhoids.
Impaired blood flow directly to the rectum is disrupted due to poor and irresponsible nutrition - this is one of the main causes of hemorrhoids.
Proper nutrition
Remembering about proper nutrition, balanced, we understand that everything is selected in the right ratio of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. A person also needs to take vitamins, the body needs macronutrients and other useful substances. It turns out that this is not enough for high-quality development and maintaining good health.
Our food, of course, all goes into the stomach, and is digested there, but not all food is absorbed by the body and there is always food waste. Plant fibers, which are not digested, play a special role in our nutrition. If your body has too little fiber, the amount of feces will rapidly decrease and the intestines will weaken, the result, of course, is constipation.
Straining
If you have to strain too much during defecation, you will have problems with stool (you will not go to the toilet for a long time), blood will accumulate in the vessels of the rectum, and hemorrhoids are inevitable.
Alcohol and hemorrhoids
All people are well aware of the harm of alcohol, its impact on our own body. Alcohol consumption directly affects the occurrence of hemorrhoids. You have probably heard that alcohol destroys our brain and affects almost all organs in our body. Together with the blood, alcohol circulates throughout the body, causing irreparable harm and causing various diseases.
Alcohol has a direct effect on the intestinal mucosa and subjects it to significant changes, strongly irritates the mucosa. Getting into the stomach, alcohol spreads through all the blood vessels and expands them, getting into the rectum, it awaits the same fate. Because of this, blood clots are formed in the hemorrhoidal nodes, these nodes, in turn, become inflamed, this is how hemorrhoids begin.
If you suffer from hemorrhoids and drink alcohol, you do not suffer from headaches, you simply do not notice them, since pain in the anus is much more noticeable than headaches.
Statistics show that 17% to 33% of people who suffer from hemorrhoids are heavy drinkers. Think about your health and drink a minimum of alcohol, or even give up this harmful drink altogether.
Frequent alcohol consumption may cause ovarian diseases, cystitis, prostatitis and urethritis, as well as hemorrhoids, the list is long, but each of these diseases is dangerous. Therefore, consult a doctor in time at the first signs of illness.