How Obesity Affects Anal Health and Increases the Risk of Hemorrhoids

It is a well-known fact that obesity is detrimental to health. It is also familiar common knowledge that excessively accumulated body fat can be the main culprit of chronic diseases.

However, the fact that obesity can adversely affect ‘anal’ health is unfamiliar. Under the premise that input and output are directly proportional, it is easy to think that the more you eat, the smoother your bowel movement will be, but the more you eat, the more burden your digestive system will feel, which also affects the anus, the last digestive organ.

Conversely, even in the case of an unreasonable diet, the adverse effects on anal health are similar. This is because as the intake is reduced, the movement of the digestive system slows down and the anus becomes weak.

According to experts, obese people are vulnerable to anal health because the pressure on the anal muscles increases as they gain weight. In addition, the accumulation of excessive fat cells acts as a factor that promotes the inflammatory response throughout the body. This increases the risk of causing inflammation in the tissues around the anus.

Obesity is also one of the factors that increase the risk of developing hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids is a disease in which tissues around the anus become swollen or inflamed, but ‘hemorrhoids’, which account for the majority of anal diseases, are often called hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids are a disease in which the veins of the anus swell and the mucous membranes and skin stretch like lumps and are pushed out of the body whenever defecation occurs.

Although the pathophysiological mechanism of the association between obesity and hemorrhoids has not been clarified, it is known that increased intra-abdominal pressure, venous congestion, and chronic inflammation contribute to the development of hemorrhoids in obese individuals.

In particular, in the case of severe abdominal obesity, inflammation occurs more easily in a situation where visceral fat is accumulated, and abdominal pressure takes more load, and the risk of hemorrhoids may increase due to increased inflammation and pressure in the fat around the anus.

Ironically, hemorrhoids are more likely to occur not only in obese people but also in people who overdo their diet. This is because ‘constipation’, which can appear in common among obese people and dieters, is the cause.

The reason why dieters should start eating regularly is that if excessively restrictive eating habits cause a lack of nutrients, the anal tissue becomes weak and the possibility of fissures increases. The longer this condition lasts, the greater the risk of developing hemorrhoids.

To manage these symptoms, if you are overweight, the first thing you need to do is to get back to your normal weight. However, if you go on an unreasonable diet, you may be exposed to constipation due to lack of nutrition, so it is important to choose the ‘standard method’ of drinking enough water every day and doing light aerobic exercise. /Reporter Jeong Eui-jun [email protected]

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