Can You Get Piles By Drinking Coffee Or Alcohol?

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Can You Get Piles By Drinking Coffee Or Alcohol?

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Okay, hello and glad you could make it to another post from www.how-to-cure-hemorrhoids.com. OK, recently a couple of readers sent me some emails asking if dehydration can affect hemorrhoids and so I thought I’d make a quick video on it and have a good chat about it, and make sure that we get that question answered.

Ok, first up we need to find out what causes hemorrhoids? The most obvious factor that causes hemorrhoids is constipation. In a nutshell, constipation forces you to strain and the act of straining increases the blood flow into the veins around the rectum which causes hemorrhoids, so that’s one of the major issues.

Another factor is dehydration. basically, lack of fluids in the body causes dry, compact stools which are difficult to pass, which understandably cause constipation which in turn puts pressure on the rectum which causes inflammation of the anal veins which again causes hemorrhoids. Finally, chronic diarrhea is also a major cause of hemorrhoids. Chronic diarrhea over time causes dehydration. Diarrhea creates a spastic motion which adds pressure to the rectum. This causes a lot of straining. And of course, dehydration as we said can eventually cause dry, compact stools. I know that sounds like the opposite of diarrhea but the reality is that diarrhea causes dehydration and eventually, we will get inflammation of the anal veins which causes hemorrhoids.

Now, in that way, we can say that dehydration must play a big part in hemorrhoids. So another question is what causes dehydration and how can i stop this from occurring? Firstly, most people don’t drink enough water; it’s basic. Most people don’t drink enough water and in reality most people are aware that they don’t drink enough water. Instead, they try to replace it with soft drinks, coffees and teas, that sort of stuff.

If you exercise without drinking any water, that is a cause of dehydration. If you drink caffeinated beverages such as coffee or green tea or colas or soft drinks, they use things that will cause dehydration. It’s natural to think, “Well, I’m taking on lots of fluids here,” but you’ll also notice that you urinate a lot more. And the fact is that if you’re urinating more than usual, you may be losing water. And things like caffeinated drinks like coffee, green tea, tea, cola, these contain caffeine and caffeine is a diuretic, which means you’re going to pass more fluids and when you pass more fluids you are dehydrating yourself. I know that doesn’t sound that logical, but that’s the way that caffeine works. It will cause you to dehydrate.

Another major contributor to dehydration is drinking alcohol. Taking in alcohol causes dehydration. Many people in fact get their first cases of hemorrhoids after they’ve had a couple of really big nights on the beers or wines. There are clear links between drinking alcohol and piles.

So the next question is how much water should I drink? Well, there are no real hard and fast rules but a good rule of thumb to go by is to drink approximately two liters of water per day. If you want an easy way to kind of get that, when you first get out of bed, have your first glass of water and then set your watch to ring an alarm every hour. Then just grab a glass of water, drink it down, and if you do that all through the day, it’s almost hard not to drink two liters per day.

So it shouldn’t be hard. It certainly isn’t of benefit to just gulp down a liter in the morning and then gulp down a liter in the later on at night. you’ll receive far more benefit if you hydrate yourself regularly on an hourly basis.

So, have we answered the question “Is there a link between dehydration and hemorrhoids?” Well, it certainly doesn’t help and drinking water will cause your stool to soften and make it easier to pass. We can see that avoiding dehydration is good for constipation, but it also has a whole raft of other benefits. It can help with weight loss. It is absolutely necessary for the body to have water to help the clearing of toxins.

So, in conclusion, absolutely you should be drinking more water, and dehydration is definitely one of the big causes of hemorrhoids. And it’s not that hard to control hemorrhoids and certainly drinking water is one of the major first steps that everyone should take.

If you’d like a little more information, please go to www.how-to-cure-hemorrhoids.com and I hope to see you soon.

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