Sitting too long before computer may lead to piles [hemorrhoids]

China Post (Taipei) ^ | May 24, 2008

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- "Please do not sit for too long every day to fool around with your personal computer," a Tainan surgeon warned yesterday. If you do, the chances are that you may get hemorrhoids.

Known commonly as piles, hemorrhoids are swellings of veins in the lower rectum or anus, either internal (above the anal sphincter) or external (outside the sphincter).

Frequently associated with constipation, straining to defecate, pregnancy, or prolonged sitting, hemorrhoids are often painful and sometimes bleed with defecation.

Treatment includes topical agents to shrink and anesthetize the hemorrhoids, compresses, and if severe, ligation or surgical excision.

Dr. Lu Nai-kuan, a Tainan general hospital chief surgeon, said prolonged sitting caused hemorrhoids in young people. "Our patients are getting younger," he lamented. One such patient was an eighth grader.

"He told his mother he was seriously sick because his stool is bloody," Dr. Lu said.

She brought her son to Dr. Lu, who told her the boy has piles because he sat before his computer hours on end every day for close to three years. "That's why the boy got hemorrhoids," Dr. Lu said.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

...but you probably knew this already.

[SmithL]

So, Bill Gates is a pain in the @$$.

[Doogle]

..puters can get rhoids?

[Red_Devil 232]

I have to recycle beer to often to get piles!

[caver]

I wish I could have blamed the computer back in 1980 when I had “piles” surgery.

[seoul62]

Well, I do have tucks wipes in the bathroom./Just Asking - seoul62........

[Sacajaweau]

So, when will the Computer a** pill be on the market?

Or will it be a special "toilet" chair that will solve this devastating problem.

Who will file the first big a** lawsuit?

Corporations: Take Note!!

Not enough carpel tunnel suits for the attorneys?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Computers fire up your hemmis?....

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Keep them by the keyboard just in case and keep some Lysol for the keyboard.....

[ThomasThomas]

It’s all about the chair.

[Kimmers]

You mean piles are the one thing not caused by global warming?

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Keep them by the keyboard just in case and keep some Lysol for the keyboard.....

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

You mean piles are the one thing not caused by global warming?

C'mon, use your imagination. This one's easy.

Global warming makes it too hot for outdoor activities, so you spend more time indoors using the computer.

[Vigilanteman]

My Daddy used to say that God gave you two feet and one butt so you’d should spend at least twice the amount of time on you feet as you do sitting.

[bravo whiskey]

that explains the posts over at DU and KOS

[Revolting cat!]

Treatment includes topical agents to shrink and anesthetize the hemorrhoids, compresses, and if severe, ligation or surgical excision

Ligation? You can sue to get rid of piles?

[techcor]

You can sue to get rid of piles?

If so, I'm suing Congress.

[Centurion2000]

Great .... first there was carpal tunnel.

Now we get Expanded Tunnel Computer A$$.

Hey ... that sounds like a government spending program from the NorthEast.

[TornadoAlley3]

[Skooz]

Too late.