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Can eating a lot of spicy food cause hemmoroids & bleeding??
I eat a lot of spicy food and I'm not sure if it's the spicy food, I heard it might be. I've had hemmoroids 4 times in a year. It hurts for me to poop and I bleed. I've been to the doctors once for it, but I don't like the doctor looking at my private area.
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Spicy food can't CAUSE them, it's all to do with weakened blood vessels which get inflamed and 'pop out' as it were. But anything that makes you more loose than usual, or on the other side of the coin, constipated will tend to make them enlarged and possibly bleed when you go to the loo. So can lugging heavy weights about or certain types of exertion or exercise the day before. It's that 'straining' feeling around your bottom that makes them flare-up...straining during bowel movements, when lifting heavy weights...as we've been talikng about. Once the tendency is there you just have to put up with it sadly, unless it gets so bad the doc suggests surgery...even then there might still be a tendency. Laxatives, I'm not sure. Probably don't do you any favours by creating bowel movements, on the other hand they might HELP if they're used to relieve constipation, which makes you strain when yo do 'go'. Don't be worried about visiting the doc, they peer up peoples backsides all the time! True, it's not pleasant being 'inspected' in this way...but try and grin and bear it. Suppositories ease the discomfort and are available off-prescription. But if you're still having problems after the whole pack's gone, and it hasn't helped much...pop along to the doc. Ps...persistent heavy coughing when you've got a bad cold of flu can set them off too. Absolutely LOADS of people have this condition, possibly only very infrequently...they flare up and are uncomfortable for a few days and shrink back (with the cream or supoositories help). I'm not waving it off lightly it, it's painful...but it doesn't ruin your life. Often known as 'piles'... and in the UK a bit of cockney rhyming slang dubs the 'The Farmer Giles' or the 'Farmers'. Use a bit of 'humour'...because it is sort of embarrassing to talk about. Humping hay bales and feed sacks around some years ago, I had a rotten case of the 'Farmers' myself. Wondered what was up when I bled going to the loo...frightened me to death mate!! Have one 'pop out' very occasionally still. Ouch!! Best wishes...
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