Here’s why you shouldn’t take your smartphone into the bathroom

Of all the crappy ways smartphones have affected our health , this one is a real kick in the pants.

A first-of-its-kind study links excessive scrolling on the phone while sitting on the toilet with hemorrhoids.

(Insert poo emojis.)

But, seriously. Sitting on an open bowl offers no support for the pelvic floor. That puts pressure on veins in the rectum, making them swollen and inflamed.

“The longer you sit on the toilet, the worse it is for you,” said Dr. Trisha Pasricha, director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Institute for Gut-Brain Research Institute in Boston. Pasricha is also an author of the study, which was published Wednesday in PLOS One .

And smartphones are designed to keep people fixated for as long as possible.

“They’re completely consuming to us in ways