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How do women in mid twenties get hemorrhoids?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Risk Factors?: Factors that impact hemorrhoids include: straining w bowel movements, pregnancy, obesity, sitting on the toilet for a long time, aging, heredity, constipation, or over-use of laxatives/ enemas. Just being in an upright position puts pressures on the veins that form hemorrhoids.

Answered 12/11/2015

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