(I was sitting outside my work smoking, it's freezing, & I get this long lecture that it's possible.-if it's true, how would it happen if I have Levis/jeans on?)
2007-01-21 00:44:09 · 16 answers · asked by strange-artist 7 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hemorrhoids.html
2007-01-21 00:47:41 · answer #1 · answered by private n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Extremes in conditions can aggravate pre-existing hemorrhoids or fissures, but as for causing them, I've never heard of that one. So you may have the early stage of one, and expose the region to cold and hard conditions and you would feel the discomfort more, but the hemorrhoid would be there already.
2007-01-21 00:52:18 · answer #2 · answered by steviewag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh no. A hemmoroid is caused by strain...it's an enlarged blood vessel. Cold cement is an old wives tale!
2007-01-21 00:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by nic_tammyscott 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG! Yes, it is true. My grandmother always says that.
Well, let me set this straight: I don't know for sure if it CAUSES hemorrhoids, but it definitely activates them if you have had them in the past. I can vouch for that one personally.
Just to be on the safe side, sit on wood.
2007-01-21 00:52:33 · answer #4 · answered by freakazoid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ihave heard its from straining and damp conditions i.e sitting on damp walls , mind you the nuns in my school told us we would get piles sitting on the hot radiators at school , think that was to stop us hogging all the heat from them though
2007-01-21 03:02:20 · answer #5 · answered by jan b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...No...No...but my grandmother always said I could get hemorrhoids but I don't think that's true either! You will get a sore rear end from sitting all day!
2016-05-24 04:33:18 · answer #6 · answered by Sandra 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can't get them like that, whoever told you that can't be too smart, they are caused by strain, like pushing hard cuz you can't get it out, just sitting can't cause it, unless you were sitting there pushing for some reason.
2007-01-21 00:54:12 · answer #7 · answered by sarah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think so, but I hear sitting on the toilet for long periods of time can.
2007-01-21 00:53:17 · answer #8 · answered by R♥bin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of old wives tales about hemorrhoids, that's one of them!;
2007-01-21 00:48:49 · answer #9 · answered by huggz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-01-21 01:13:09 · answer #10 · answered by lucyp1958 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋