A new study advises limited smartphone use to 5 minutes, as sitting on an “open toilet bowl” provides no support to the pelvic floor, leading to hemorrhoids Getty Scrolling on your phone while you sit ...

Share on Pinterest Hemorrhoids are common, but spending less time on the toilet with your phone can help lower your risk. Danil Nevsky/Stocksy New research suggests that people who use their phone ...

You may want to leave your phone behind next time you head to the restroom, in order to avoid suffering hemorrhoid rage. A new medical study published in PLOS One has found a link between lengthy ...

Researchers investigated the bathroom habits of 125 adults. People who use their smartphones while sitting on the toilet face are at higher risk for painful, itchy hemorrhoids, according to new ...

A new study suggests that bringing your smartphone into the bathroom could raise your risk of hemorrhoids by nearly 50%. Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston found ...

Scrolling on your smartphone while on the toilet may be doing more than passing the time. A new study has found it could raise your risk of hemorrhoids by nearly 50%, thanks to the extra minutes spent ...

People love to joke about not even being able to go to the toilet without bringing a phone with you these days, but it turns out your bathroom scrolling habit may be doing more harm than you think. A ...

Jocelyn Solis-Moreira is a freelance health and science journalist based in New York. There’s nothing like shutting the bathroom door, maybe even locking it and hiding away from one’s family, even ...

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(NEW YORK) — People who use their smartphones while sitting on the toilet face are at higher risk for painful, itchy hemorrhoids, according to new research published in the journal PLOS One.